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Date of Birth

22 December 1965, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Birth Name

David Samuel Goyer

Height

5' 6" (1.68 m)

Trivia

Graduated from USC School of Cinema-Television (1988).

Graduated from Huron High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Was Teaching Assistant to screenwriter Nelson Gidding at USC.

Sold his comic book collection en masse to the drummer from System of a Down, John Dolmayan.

The January 6, 1991 draft of the screenplay for Pet Sematary II (1992) credits revisions to Goyer. He is not credited in the final film.

Created the character Abraham Whistler for the film trilogy based on the Blade comic book. Ironically, the character ended up making his first appearance before the film came out, in an an episode of "Spider-Man" (1994) in which Blade made a guest appearance. Whistler was voiced in that episode by Malcolm McDowell. Whistler subsequently was adopted into the continuity of the comic books.

Was considered as a director for Hellboy (2004), before Guillermo del Toro was involved.

Was going to write the screen play for Superman Returns (2006) due to his work on Batman Begins (2005) but the screenplay was later written by Dan Harris.

Was approached to direct The Avengers (1998).

He is a big fan of H.P. Lovecraft books.

Personal Quotes

"We definitely set it up and kind of provided Warner Bros. a rough plan of what the next three movies would be. So it's not like we'll do one and then figure on the next. There is a road map of what the next three movies would be and who the various characters would be." [on Batman Begins (2005)]

I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more interesting performances that way. Hollywood loves to pigeonhole people and there's nothing an actor loves more than to do something different.

[on Batman Begins (2005)] "Chris was a real taskmaster about justifying everything in the real world, He kept saying, 'It's gotta be grounded. It's gotta be real'."

[on his upcoming project, The Flash (2011)] "We're going to go into the 'Speed Force' and a lot of the cosmic aspects of the character from the more recent past, trust me, we're going to do a lot more than have the Flash run on water and create vortexes. I have a guy from M.I.T. helping me with all of this. We're going to be playing with relativity, Doppler effects and all kinds of things like that. Audiences will be amazed."

(On Demonic Toys) Simple. Charlie Band said that if I wrote a film for Full Moon I could direct one. I wrote the film in 8 days based on a poster Charlie had previously designed, then decided I was insane to think I could've busted my ass on such a ridiculous directorial debut I think Charlie was going to give me 18 days to direct the thing. A sane move, I think.

Where Are They Now

(November 2005) Began production of "Blade: The Series" (2006) TV pilot for the Spike network. Goyer is Executive Producing, and co-writing the pilot with Geoff Johns. The two previously co-wrote the "Justice Society of America" comic book.

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