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Dan Trachtenberg
Directing · Born 1981-05-11 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography
Dan Trachtenberg (born May 11, 1981) is an American filmmaker and podcast host. He is best known for directing the films 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) and Prey (2022), the former earning him a Directors Guild of America Award nomination for Outstanding Directing – First-Time Feature Film. For television, he directed the pilot episodes of The Boys (2019) and The Lost Symbol (2021), the latter of which he also served as an executive producer. Trachtenberg was one of three hosts of The Totally Rad Show podcast and a former co-host of the Geekdrome podcast. He also directed episodes for the Ctrl+Alt+Chicken podcast, all hosted at Revision3. He directed the 2011 short film Portal: No Escape, an episode of Black Mirror entitled "Playtest," and various television commercials and public service announcements. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dan Trachtenberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for

The Boys
Executive Producer

Black Mirror
Director

Predator: Badlands
Story

Predator: Killer of Killers
Director

Prey
Story

10 Cloverfield Lane
Director

BlackBoxTV Presents
Director

Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol
Executive Producer

Scam School
Self

The Totally Rad Show
Self - Host
Filmography
- 2028Freddy the 13thDirector
- 2025Predator: BadlandsStory
- 2025Predator: Killer of KillersDirector
- 2022PreyStory
- 2021Dan Brown's The Lost SymbolExecutive Producer
- 2019The BoysExecutive Producer
- 2018Learned Behavior: Special Features at WorkSelf
- 201610 Cloverfield LaneDirector
- 2014Turtle Power: The Definitive History of the Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesSelf
- 2011Black MirrorDirector
- 2011More Than You Can ChewDirector
- 2010BlackBoxTV PresentsDirector
- 2008Scam SchoolSelf
- 2007The Totally Rad ShowSelf - Host
- 2003Kickin'Director
- 1998Phantasm IV: OblivionKey Grip
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