David Gordon Green

David Gordon Green
File:David Gordon Green (cropped).jpg Green at the 2013 Deauville American Film Festival
Born	(1975-04-09) April 9, 1975 Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
Residence	Austin, Texas
Alma mater	University of North Carolina School of the Arts
Occupation	Film director, film producer, television producer, screenwriter
Years active	1997–present

David Gordon Green (born April 9, 1975) is an American filmmaker. He has directed dramas such as George Washington (2000), All the Real Girls (2003), and Snow Angels (2007), as well as the thriller Undertow (2004), all of which he wrote or co-wrote. In 2008, he transitioned into comedy, directing the films Pineapple Express (2008), Your Highness and The Sitter (both 2011), as well as episodes of the HBO comedy Eastbound & Down (2009–13). In 2013, he returned to his more dramatic roots with the independent films Prince Avalanche and Joe. Since then, he has directed the films Manglehorn (2014), Our Brand Is Crisis (2015), Stronger (2017), and episodes of the television comedy-drama Red Oaks (2014–2017), which he also executive produces.

Green will next direct the upcoming eleventh installment in the Halloween franchise, which he co-wrote with frequent collaborator Danny McBride and takes place forty years after the events of the original 1978 film.

Background

Green, one of four children, was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and grew up in Richardson, Texas. His mother, Jean Ann (née Hunter), was a Lamaze instructor, and his father, Hubert Gordon Green, Jr., was a medical school dean. Green attended Richardson High School and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where he studied film directing. He currently lives in Austin.

Film and TV work

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Green at the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con

Green's films, which are usually coming-of-age tales set in small rural towns, have been categorized as belonging to the Southern Gothic tradition. Green's dialog often has an obtuse, semi-poetic quality. While in university, he made the two short films, Pleasant Grove and Physical Pinball, at the North Carolina School of the Arts prior to his feature film debut in 2000, the critically acclaimed George Washington, which he both wrote and directed. He followed that in 2003 with All the Real Girls and Undertow in 2004. In 2007, he directed Snow Angels, his first film of another author's screenplay, adapted from the Stewart O'Nan novel. The film debuted at Sundance in January 2007 and stars Sam Rockwell and Kate Beckinsale. It was released by Warner Independent Pictures.

Green directed the Seth Rogen buddy comedy Pineapple Express and the HBO series Eastbound & Down, for which he directed twelve episodes and served as a consulting producer. He is the creator of the animated series Good Vibes. He directed the comedy The Sitter, released in December 2011. Green also directed and co-wrote, Prince Avalanche in 2013.

Green will direct the newest Halloween film, produced by Jason Blum and John Carpenter, which Green will co-write with Danny McBride, for a 2018 release. Green later stated that filming will begin in Charleston, South Carolina in late October 2017.

Influences

Green's favorite films are, in order, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Gravy Train, The Bad News Bears, Deliverance, Nashville and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

It has been suggested, even by the director himself, that Green's films take a lot of influence from the works of fellow Texan Terrence Malick. Malick himself served as an executive producer of Green's 2004 film Undertow. Green has suggested that no other director had used voice-over narration so well, citing Malick's classic 1978 film Days of Heaven as the principal source of inspiration for Undertow.

In 2006 Green was the opening night guest at the CineYouth Festival – a film festival celebrating the work of youth filmmakers and presented by Cinema/Chicago also the presenting organization behind the Chicago International Film Festival.

Filmography

Feature films

Year	Films	Credited as
		Director	Writer	Producer
2000	George Washington	Yes	Yes	Yes
2003	All the Real Girls	Yes	Yes
2004	Undertow	Yes	Yes
2007	Snow Angels	Yes	Yes
	Shotgun Stories			Yes
	Great World of Sound			Yes
2008	Pineapple Express	Yes
2011	Your Highness	Yes
	The Sitter	Yes
	The Catechism Cataclysm			Yes
2012	The Comedy			Executive
	Compliance			Executive
	Nature Calls			Executive
	See Girl Run			Executive
2013	Prince Avalanche	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Joe	Yes		Yes
2014	Camp X-Ray			Executive
	Land Ho!			Executive
	Manglehorn	Yes		Yes
2015	Booger Red			Executive
	Our Brand Is Crisis	Yes
	When Elephants Fight			Executive
	Hot Sugar's Cold World			Yes
2016	Donald Cried			Executive
	Goat		Yes
2017	Flower			Executive
	Dayveon			Executive
	Stronger	Yes
2018	An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn			Executive
	The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter			Executive
	Halloween	Yes	Yes	Executive

Short films

Year	Films	Credited as
		Director	Writer	Producer
1997	Pleasant Grove	Yes	Yes
1998	Physical Pinball	Yes	Yes

Television

Year	Films	Credited as
		Director	Writer	Executive producer	Notes
2009–13	Eastbound & Down	Yes	No	Yes	Directed 12 episodes
2011	Good Vibes	No	Yes	Yes	Series co-creator
2014	Chozen	No	No	Yes
2014–2017	Red Oaks	Yes	No	Yes	Directed 6 episodes
2016–17	Vice Principals	Yes	No	Yes	Directed 8 episodes
2017	There's... Johnny!	Yes	No	Yes	Directed 2 episodes

External links

• David Gordon Green at the Internet Movie Database