Dan Trachtenberg
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On location, shooting The Totally Rad Show, 2007
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| Born | May 11, 1981 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Occupation | Director, writer, podcast host |
| Spouse(s) | Priscilla (Hernandez) Trachtenberg[1] |
| Website | dantrachtenberg |
Template:Education Temple University
Dan Trachtenberg is an American filmmaker and podcast host. He directed the 2016 film 10 Cloverfield Lane. Trachtenberg was one of three hosts of The Totally Rad Show and a former co-host of Geekdrome. Both programs were hosted at Revision3. Trachtenberg is the director of the 2011 short film Portal: No Escape and the director of various television commercials and public service announcements.
Directing
Trachtenberg has directed commercials for Lexus, Nike, and Coca Cola. In 2003 he directed the short film Kickin'. In April, 2008, he joined Tight Films,[2] for which he collaborated with Matt Wolf on an alternate reality game for Hellboy II: The Golden Army.
He directed the internet show, "Ctrl+Alt+Chicken."
In March, 2011, Dan Trachtenberg released a short film for BlackBoxTV titled More Than You Can Chew, starring J. Kristopher, Skye Marshall and Ian Hamrick. Dan co-wrote the story with Mark D. Walker.
On August 23, 2011, Trachtenberg released the short film Portal: No Escape,[3] based on the video game Portal, which garnered over seventeen million views.[4]
On October 13, 2011, slashfilm.com announced that Trachtenberg would be directing a science fiction action heist film for Universal Pictures with writer Chris Morgan (Wanted, Fast Five, 47 Ronin).[5]
In January, 2013, iFanboy broke the news that Dan Trachtenberg would direct the film adaptation of Y: The Last Man.[6] However, on September 25, 2014, slashfilm.com announced that the movie adaptation had been cancelled.[7]
On April 3, 2014, Ain't It Cool News announced that Trachtenberg would direct a film for Bad Robot Productions titled Valencia, which was later revealed to be a code name for 10 Cloverfield Lane.[8][9] On January 15, 2016, at midnight the trailer for 10 Cloverfield Lane was released. Producer J. J. Abrams said about the film, “The idea came up a long time ago during production. We wanted to make it a blood relative of Cloverfield. The idea was developed over time. We wanted to hold back the title for as long as possible.”[10]
Filmography
- 10 Cloverfield Lane – director
- Black Mirror - director (TV)
References
- ↑ http://www.davechen.net/2011/11/dan-and-priscillas-wedding.html
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External links
- Official website
- Dan Trachtenberg at the Internet Movie Database
- Dan Trachtenberg on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Portal: No Escape short film
- More Than You Can Chew short film
- Dan Trachtenberg subreddit
