Darren Doane

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Darren Doane
Doane interviewed in 2020
Born	(1972-09-20) September 20, 1972 (age 52) Westlake Village, California

Darren Doane is an American filmmaker, actor, and music video director.^[1] He started his early music video work with Ken Daurio and directed several early Blink-182 music videos.

Filmography
Film
Short film
References
External links

Prior to directing commercials and music videos, Doane directed two live action short film adaptations of the Malibu Comics superheroes Hardcase (a six-minute music video style promo starring British kickboxer Gary Daniels) and Firearm (a 35-minute movie which served as a prequel to the actual comic).

Filmography

Film

Year	Film	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
1993	Pennywise: Home Videos	Yes	No	Yes	Concert movie
1999	Godmoney	Yes	Yes	No
2000	Ultimate Target	Yes	No	No
2001	Black Friday	Yes	Yes	No
2002	42K	Yes	Yes	No	Co-director and co-writer with Ken Daurio
2004	The Battle for L.A.	Yes	No	Yes	Documentary film Also cinematographer
2005	Unleaded	Yes	No	No
2008	Eyes Front	Yes	Yes	Yes	Also co-cinematographer and editor
2009	Jason Mraz's Beautiful Mess: Live on Earth	Yes	No	No	Concert movie
2009	Collison: Christopher Hitcher vs Douglas Wilson	Yes	No	No	Documentary Film
2013	Unstoppable	Yes	No	No	Documentary film Also actor: Bearded Man
2013	How to Answer the Fool	No	No	Executive	Documentary film Also co-editor
2014	Mercy Rule	Yes	No	No
2014	Saving Christmas	Yes	Yes	Yes	Also actor: Christian White Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director (nominated)
2015	The Free Speech Apocalypse	Yes	No	Yes	Documentary film
2016	The River Thief	No	No	Executive
2016	Shorebreak: The Clark Little Story	No	No	Executive	Documentary film

Short film

Year	Film	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
1993	Hardcase	Yes	Yes	Yes
1993	Firearm	Yes	No	No
2006	Metal by Numbers	Yes	No	No	Also cinematographer

References

↑ "Indie Filmmaker Darren Doane Archived 2009-01-29 at the Wayback Machine ", Chris Finke, Real Magazine .

External links

Darren Doane at IMDb

v t e Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay
1980s	Bronte Woodard and Allan Carr – Can't Stop the Music (1980) Frank Yablans, Frank Perry, Tracy Hotchner, and Robert Getchell – Mommie Dearest (1981) Robin Moore and Laird Koenig – Inchon (1982) John Kershaw, Shawn Randall, and Ellen Shephard – The Lonely Lady (1983) John Derek – Bolero (1984) Sylvester Stallone, James Cameron, and Kevin Jarre – Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz – Howard the Duck (1986) Jonathan Reynolds and Bill Cosby – Leonard Part 6 (1987) Heywood Gould – Cocktail (1988) Eddie Murphy – Harlem Nights (1989)
1990s	Daniel Waters, James Cappe, and David Arnott – The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990) Steven E. de Souza, Daniel Waters, Bruce Willis, and Robert Kraft – Hudson Hawk (1991) Blake Snyder, William Osborne, and William Davies – Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992) Amy Holden Jones – Indecent Proposal (1993) Tom S. Parker, Jim Jennewein, Steven E. de Souza, and various others – The Flintstones (1994) Joe Eszterhas – Showgirls (1995) Andrew Bergman – Striptease (1996) Eric Roth and Brian Helgeland – The Postman (1997) Joe Eszterhas – An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) Jim Thomas, John Thomas, S. S. Wilson, Brent Maddock, Jeffrey Price, and Peter S. Seaman – Wild Wild West (1999)
2000s	Corey Mandell and J. David Shapiro – Battlefield Earth (2000) Tom Green and Derek Harvie – Freddy Got Fingered (2001) George Lucas and Jonathan Hales – Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002) Martin Brest – Gigli (2003) Theresa Rebeck, John Brancato, Michael Ferris, and John Rogers – Catwoman (2004) Jenny McCarthy – Dirty Love (2005) Leora Barish and Henry Bean – Basic Instinct 2 (2006) Jeffrey Hammond – I Know Who Killed Me (2007) Mike Myers and Graham Gordy – The Love Guru (2008) Ehren Kruger, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci – Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
2010s	M. Night Shyamalan – The Last Airbender (2010) Steve Koren, Adam Sandler, and Ben Zook – Jack and Jill (2011) David Caspe – That's My Boy (2012) Steve Baker, Ricky Blitt, Will Carlough, Tobias Carlson, Jacob Fleisher, Patrik Forsberg, Will Graham, James Gunn, Claes Kjellstrom, Jack Kukoda, Bob Odenkirk, Bill O'Malley, Matthew Alec Portenoy, Greg Pritikin, Rocky Russo, Olle Sarri, Elizabeth Wright Shapiro, Jeremy Sosenko, Jonathan van Tulleken, and Jonas Wittenmark – Movie 43 (2013) Darren Doane and Cheston Hervey – Saving Christmas (2014) Kelly Marcel – Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) Chris Terrio and David S. Goyer – Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) Tony Leondis, Eric Siegel, and Mike White – The Emoji Movie (2017) Niall Leonard – Fifty Shades Freed (2018) Lee Hall and Tom Hooper – Cats (2019)
2020s	Tomasz Klimala, Barbara Białowąs, Tomasz Mandes, and Blanka Lipińska – 365 Days (2020/21) Joe DiPietro and David Bryan – Diana: The Musical (2021) Andrew Dominik – Blonde (2022) Rhys Frake-Waterfield – Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023) Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless, Claire Parker, S. J. Clarkson, and Kerem Sanga – Madame Web (2024)

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