Michael Dougherty

Michael Dougherty Born October 28, 1974 Columbus, Ohio, United States First work Season's Greetings (1996) Notable work Trick 'r Treat (2007)

“	I like the horror community because they're subversive. They question things. If something is held back from them, especially if they've heard that it's good, they seek it out.	„
	— Michael Dougherty

“	Some of my earliest memories are watching Godzilla movies. My mother is Vietnamese, and Godzilla movies and kung fu movies were the only places I could see Asian people on TV. He’s been with me my entire life.	„
	— Michael Dougherty

Michael Dougherty is an American film writer, director and producer. He is most well-known for writing and directing the horror films Trick 'r Treat and Krampus for Legendary Pictures, as well as writing for several films directed by Bryan Singer, including X2: X-Men United and Superman Returns. He is writing and directing the upcoming film Godzilla: King of the Monsters.

Selected Filmography

• Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) - Director, Writer

Gallery

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  Dougherty with fellow MonsterVerse directors Gareth Edwards, Jordan Vogt-Roberts, and Adam Wingard in 2018

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Trivia

• In 2008, Dougherty was attached to direct and co-write the screenplay for Calling All Robots, an animated kaiju film by Disney and ImageMovers Digital. Unfortunately, ImageMovers Digital closed down after the box office failure of Mars Needs Moms in 2011, and Calling All Robots was never made.
• In an interview with Cinema Today, Dougherty named Anguirus, Biollante, and Mechagodzilla as some of his favorite kaiju. He initially wanted to include Biollante in Godzilla: King of the Monsters and expressed a desire to bring her onboard a hypothetical sequel, along with Gigan.
• Dougherty's favorite Godzilla film is the original; among the more recent films, he favors Godzilla: Final Wars.
  • Dougherty has also expressed his distaste for TriStar's Godzilla, commenting "The 1998 Godzilla was like a mere oversized dinosaur, lacking mythical or spiritual factors necessary for monster movies," and cites reasons for his enjoyment of Godzilla: Final Wars being because "all of the monsters were gathered" and "Godzilla crushed the fake Zilla."

External Links

• Twitter account
• Tamashii Nations interview (January 2019)
• Collider interview (March 2019)

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