Dan Trachtenberg

Directing · Born May 11, 1981 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Dan Trachtenberg (born May 11, 1981) is an American filmmaker and podcast host. He made his feature film debut with 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016), earning him a Directors Guild of America Award nomination for Outstanding Directing – First-Time Feature Film. He went on to direct and provide the story for the Predator franchise films Prey (2022), Predator: Killer of Killers (2025), and Predator: Badlands (2025). For television, he directed the pilot episodes of The Boys (2019) and The Lost Symbol (2021), as well as episodes of Black Mirror (2016). 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 three programs were hosted at Revision3. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dan Trachtenberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.