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David S. Goyer

About Me

I am a filmmaker living in Southern California. Raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, weaned on a steady diet of comicbooks and late-night creature-features.

My Interests



Film, photography, books, music, art, travel

Music:

Ben Folds, Elbow, Flaming Lips, Golden Smog, Mojave 3, Mike Doughty, My Morning Jacket, Nick Drake, Radiohead, Remy Zero, Snow Patrol, Starsailor, Trail of the Dead, TV On The Radio, Velvet Underground, Wilco

Movies:

The Man Who Would Be King, The Great Escape, Night Moves, Unforgiven, Don't Look Now, Day For Night, The Decalogue, Spirited Away, Curse of the Demon, Alien, Being There

Some projects of mine:

Visit The Myspace page

My thoughts on Batman Begins

My thoughts on Blade Trinity

My thoughts on Blade The Series

My thoughts on Jumper

My thoughts on JSA

My thoughts on Threshold

My thoughts on ZigZag

My thought on Dark City

Television:

The Wire, The Prisoner, Lost, Arrested Development, The Office (both of 'em), anything on Discovery Channel with dinosaurs...

Books:

The Book of the New Sun, Cloud Atlas, A Brief History of Nearly Everything, The Last Gentleman, Guns, Germs, & Steel, The People's Act of Love, anything by Kem Nunn, Walker Percy, Flannery O'Connor, George Pelecanos, Paul Auster, Jonathan Carroll, Jack Vance, Jorge Luis Borges...

My Blog

Film Freak Interview

I did an extensive radio interview with Leo Quinones on his Film Freak show this past Friday night. Lots of snippets on The Invisible, Batman Begins, and comicbook movies in general.You can hear the ...
Posted by David S. Goyer on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 04:07:00 PST

MySpace Comicbooks

As of today, I'll be the guest curator for the next few weeks over at MySpace Comicbooks. What this basically means is that I'll be selecting the featured artists, writers, and publishers -- and writ...
Posted by David S. Goyer on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 07:02:00 PST

SUPERMAX

Is it real? The answer is "YES", it's a real project. It's just in the early stages of development, but amongst the tidal wave of super-hero movies hitting the screen, this more classically post-mod...
Posted by David S. Goyer on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:07:00 PST

'INVISIBLE' making-of featurette...

As we near the April 27th release of THE INVISIBLE, we've started to add more goodies to the movie MySpace site. Just added a nifty little making-of featurette which you can link to here: Film Featu...
Posted by David S. Goyer on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:33:00 PST

Breaking into Hollywood, Part 2

Okay, okay -- gotten lots of e-mails asking how to get an agent. The truth is, there isn't one right way to find representation. But representation IS important, make no mistake about that.If you ar...
Posted by David S. Goyer on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 09:34:00 PST

MTV.com horror piece...

I contributed to a new feature on MTV.com about filmmaking. It mostly concerns some behind-the-scene moments in the Blade trilogy. Check it out: MTV.COM PIECE...
Posted by David S. Goyer on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 08:40:00 PST

Breaking into Film and Television, Part 1

I've gotten lots of requests asking how to break into film and TV. I'll do be best to pass on whatever advice or tips I've managed to glean, drawing primarily from my own experiences.First of all, I'...
Posted by David S. Goyer on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 06:56:00 PST

Thanks...

Just wanted to say thanks to all who've expressed their regrets. To be honest, when WB first approached me about doing The Flash, it seemed a little too good to be true. There have been other super...
Posted by David S. Goyer on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 05:33:00 PST

Goyer Flash R.I.P.

Well, I've been waiting a few months to relate this news -- but I am sad to say that my version of The Flash is dead at WB. The God's honest truth is that WB and myself simply couldn't agree on what ...
Posted by David S. Goyer on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 11:12:00 PST

Invisible online press...

So the first initial salvo of publicity is beginning to trickle out. A little while ago, I hosted an editing room visit with some writers from various online publications. I showed about half an hou...
Posted by David S. Goyer on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 02:16:00 PST