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Dan Trachtenberg
Dan Trachtenberg (born May 11, 1981) is an American filmmaker and podcast host. He directed the 2016 horror-thriller film 10 Cloverfield Lane which earned him a Directors Guild of America Award nomination for Outstanding Directing - First-Time Feature Film. Trachtenberg was one of three hosts of The Totally Rad Show podcast and was a former co-host of the Geekdrome podcast. He also directed episodes for the Ctrl+Alt+Chicken podcast. All three programs were hosted at Revision3. Trachtenberg is also the director of the 2011 short film Portal: No Escape, an episode of Black Mirror entitled "Playtest" and the director of various television commercials and public service announcements. He directed the series premiere episode of The Boys, which premiered on Prime Video in July 2019.
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1981-05-11
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
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Priscilla Trachtenberg
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New Prey Trailer: Hulu's Predator Director Dan Trachtenberg Breaks Down New Gadgets

20th Century and Hulu have released the full trailer for Prey, the next chapter in the Predator franchise! Featuring our first look at the new Predator, and the characters he'll be hunting in the film, which is set three hundred years in the past, you can watch it in the player above. Ahead of the trailer's debut, ComicBook.com also got the opportunity to speak with director Dan Trachtenberg and producer Jhane Myers, who revealed new details on the film's development, the gadgets that the Predator is using in the movie, and how Disney didn't actually demand anything despite what some fans might assume. As Trachtenberg told us, "It is a brutal, intense, very R-rated movie."
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Prey First Look: Dan Trachtenberg Makes A Predator Prequel

The franchise that sprung up in the wake of the 1987 John McTiernan classic has often struggled to reclaim the magic of that original film, culminating with Shane Black's 2018 misfire. The idea for Trachtenberg's film is to revitalize the franchise by bringing the story to wholly new territory altogether, which you can see for yourself with the first official look at "Prey." Check it out below.
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WATERWORLD is Being Developed as a Series By Director Dan Trachtenberg

So, uh… Waterworld! The 1995 Kevin Costner action film that audiences… loved? Is now being developed as a TV series. I’m not sure who is asking for this as the best thing to come out of that movie was the Waterworld: A Live Sea War Spectacular stunt show at Universal Studios. But, producer John Davis has revealed that 10 Cloverfield Lane and Predator director Dan Trachtenberg is developing the show and is attached to direct.
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‘Waterworld’: Dan Trachtenberg To Direct Series Based On Kevin Costner’s Legendary Box Office Flop Set 20 Years Later

Director Dan Trachtenberg (“10 Cloverfield,” “The Boys“) is currently shooting his secretive “Predator 5” movie in Calgary, but that isn’t the only sci-fi property he’s expected to breath new life into. “Predator 5” producer John Davis has revealed to Collider during an interview that he’s developing a streaming series based...
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Waterworld TV Series in Development, Dan Trachtenberg to Direct

You wouldn’t think that Waterworld would have a big demand for a follow-up, but you’d apparently be wrong because a TV series is in the works. Producer John Davis told Collider that he is developing a sequel series that will be streaming and is a “continuation of that movie.”. The...
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Dan Trachtenberg is Attached To Direct a Waterworld TV Series

Dan Trachtenberg is Attached To Direct a Waterworld TV Series. It looks like Predator isn’t the only throwback sci-fi property on Dan Trachtenberg’s plate right now. According to Collider, Trachtenberg is attached to direct a new streaming series based on 1995’s Waterworld. Trachtenberg is working on the series with producers...
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