American screenwriter, film director, novelist, and comic book writer
Graduated from USC School of Cinema-Television.
Graduated from Huron High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Was a teaching assistant to screenwriter Nelson Gidding at USC.
Sold his comic book collection en masse to John Dolmayan , the drummer from System of a Down.
The January 6, 1991, draft of the screenplay for Pet Sematary II credits revisions to Goyer. He is not credited in the final film.
Created the character Abraham Whistler for the film trilogy based on the Blade comic book. Ironically, the character ended up making his first appearance before the film came out, in an an episode of "Spider-Man" in which Blade made a guest appearance. Whistler was voiced in that episode by Malcolm McDowell. Whistler subsequently was adopted into the continuity of the comic books.
Was considered as a director for Hellboy before Guillermo del Toro was involved.
Was going to write the screenplay for Superman Returns due to his work on Batman Begins but the screenplay was later written by Dan Harris.
Was approached to direct The Avengers .
He is a big fan of H.P. Lovecraft books.
Uses several different pseudonyms such as Cynthia Verlaine and Ricardo Festiva.
(November 2005) Began production of "Blade: The Series" TV pilot for the Spike network. Goyer is Executive Producing, and co-writing the pilot with Geoff Johns. The two previously co-wrote the "Justice Society of America" comic book.
Bought a car, with his first paycheck for Death Warrant , that was stolen the same night he drove it home.
Has spoken about growing up as a victim of intense Anti-Semitic bullying.
He has very long sleeves of tattoos on both of his arms.
Goyers movies have grossed over three billion dollars worldwide.
His script for the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops became the largest grossing entertainment property ever.
Had originally planned on becoming a homicide detective, but was inspired to take up screen writing, after hearing a lecture by Lawrence Kasdan.
One of the many screenwriters to submit a draft for the film Freddy vs. Jason .
