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Alfred Gough (born August 22, 1967) is an American screenwriter, producer and showrunner. He is best known as co-creator of The WB/The CW's Superman prequel series Smallville and Netflix's upcoming Addams Family spin-off series Wednesday. Alongside longtime writing/producing partner Miles Millar, Gough also co-created AMC's wuxia-influenced dystopian series Into the Badlands and the epic fantasy series The Shannara Chronicles (based on The Sword of Shannara Trilogy book trilogy by Terry Brooks). Among his many feature film credits are Jackie Chan's Shanghai Noon, Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man 2 and Brendan Fraser's The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.

Alfred Gough
Gough in 2010
Born	Alfred Gough III (1967-08-22) August 22, 1967 (age 55) Leonardtown, Maryland
Occupation	Screenwriter, producer
Known for	Smallville Spider-Man 2 The Shannara Chronicles The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor Into the Badlands Wednesday

Early life

Born in Leonardtown, Maryland, Gough graduated from St. Mary's Ryken High School (1985) and The Catholic University of America (1989). Gough attended The Peter Stark Producing Program at the University of Southern California where he teamed up with his writing partner Miles Millar.

Gough and Millar sold their first script while still studying at USC. "Mango", a buddy-cop story where a cop who was allergic to animals was paired with an orangutan, sold to New Line Cinema for $400,000.[1] The film was never made, but launched the duo's professional careers.

Career

Al Gough and Miles Millar are prolific writers/producers. Their feature credits include the action-adventure The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, the hit action-comedy Shanghai Noon, as well as its sequel Shanghai Knights, Spider-Man 2 directed by Sam Raimi, Herbie: Fully Loaded, Lethal Weapon 4, and I Am Number Four. They also produced Hannah Montana: The Movie, based on the smash hit Disney Channel series.[2] The feature marked the first for the duo's Walt Disney-based production company, Millar Gough Ink.

Gough and Millar’s work also spans the world of television. The duo created and served as executive producers/showrunners for the critically acclaimed action-adventure series Smallville, which aired from 2001-2011. Smallville is the longest-running comic book-based series of all time and was the top show in the history of the WB Television Network. Gough and Millar left the series in 2008, after seven seasons, breaking the news of their departure with an open letter posted to a Smallville fan site.[3] In 2010, Gough and Millar filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the WB Television Network, claiming the company had licensed Smallville to its co-owned WB and CW networks for excessively low fees, thereby cutting Gough and Millar out of tens of millions of dollars.[4] The lawsuit was finally settled in May 2013, mere weeks before a scheduled June trial; the terms of the settlement were not made to the public.[4][5]

In 2015 Gough and Millar created The Shannara Chronicles an epic fantasy television series for MTV. It is an adaptation of The Sword of Shannara trilogy of fantasy novels by Terry Brooks. It follows three heroes as they protect an ancient tree to stop the escape of banished demons. The series was filmed in the Auckland Film Studios and on location elsewhere in New Zealand. The series starred Austin Butler, Ivana Baquero and Manu Bennett. Jon Favreau was one of the executive producers along with Dan Farrah. The pilot episode was directed by Jonathan Liebesman.

The first season of The Shannara Chronicles premiered on MTV in the United States on January 5, 2016, and consisted of 10 episodes. MTV originally greenlit a second season in April 2016; however, in May 2017, it was announced that the series would relocate to Spike (now Paramount Network). The second season premiered on October 11, 2017, and concluded November 22, 2017. On January 16, 2018, it was announced that the series had been cancelled after two seasons and that the producers were shopping the series to other networks. The series was later considered officially concluded but has since generated a cult following on Netflix.

In June 2015 Gough and Millar began production of Into the Badlands a series they created for AMC Networks. The martial arts drama was set in a gun free post apocalyptic America where warring barons had personal armies of lethally trained fighters. The series was notable as one of the only hour long dramas in American television history to feature an Asian American (Daniel Wu) as its lead. The show was a ratings hit, but received a mix response from critics. Nick Frost joined the cast in season two and proved a very popular addition to the fans of the series. The show's mythology was very loosely based on the classic Chinese text, Journey to the West. Each episode featured intricate martial arts fights that were staged and directed by legendary Hong Kong fight choreographers Huen Chiu Ku (aka Master Dee Dee Ku) and Andy Cheng. The series starred Daniel Wu, Marton Csokas, Emily Beecham, Aramis Knight and Orla Brady. The first season was filmed in New Orleans, but subsequent seasons were shot in and around Dublin, Ireland. Into The Badlands ran for 32 episodes and was cancelled due to a regime change at AMC Networks.

In October 2020, Gough and Millar sold a series to Netflix based on the character of Wednesday Addams.[6][7] The series was created by Gough and Millar but Tim Burton teamed with the duo as an executive producer and directed the first four episodes. Wednesday represents Burton's first foray into television and stars Jenna Ortega in the title role. The series also stars Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams, Luis Guzman as Gomez Addams as well as Gwendoline Christie as Larissa Weems.

Millar and Gough created two other short-lived tv series; The Strip starring Sean Patrick Flannery, the ABC's reboot of Charlie's Angels. Both ran 8 episodes.

List of works

Film

Year	Film	Credit	Notes
1997	Double Tap	Written by	Co-wrote with Miles Millar and Erik Saltzgaber
1998	Lethal Weapon 4	Story by	Co-wrote story with Miles Millar and Jonathan Lemkin
	Black Jaq	Written by, co-executive producer	Co-wrote with Miles Millar and Dawnn Lewis, TV movie
1999	Made Men	Written by	Co-wrote with Miles Millar and Robert Franke
2000	Shanghai Noon	Written by	Co-wrote with Miles Millar
2002	Showtime	Screenplay by	Co-wrote screenplay with Miles Millar and Keith Sharon, based on a story by Jorge Saralegui
2003	Shanghai Knights	Written by, characters	Co-wrote and co-created characters with Miles Millar
2004	Spider-Man 2	Story by	Co-wrote story with Miles Millar and Michael Chabon
2005	Herbie: Fully Loaded	Screenplay by	Co-wrote screenplay with Miles Millar and Thomas Lennon & Robert Ben Garant, based on a story by Thomas Lennon & Robert Ben Garant and Mark Perez
2008	The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor	Written by	Co-wrote with Miles Millar
2009	Hannah Montana: The Movie	Producer
2011	I Am Number Four	Screenplay by	Co-wrote with Miles Millar and Marti Noxon
2012	Bullet to the Head	Producer

Television

Year	Film	Credit	Notes
1996-1997	Bugs	Written by
1997-1998	Timecop	Written by, story editor, story by, teleplay by
1998-1999	Martial Law	Writer, co-producer
1999-2000	The Strip	Created by, executive producer, written by	Co-created with Miles Millar
2001-2011	Smallville	Developed for Television by, executive producer, written by, excerpts written by, story by, teleplay by, characters
2006	Aquaman	Created by, executive producer
	Smallville: Vengeance Chronicles	Executive producer	TV Miniseries
2011	Charlie's Angels	Developed for Television by, executive producer, written by	Co-created with Miles Millar
2015-2019	Into the Badlands	Created by, written by, executive producer
2016-2018	The Shannara Chronicles
2022	Wednesday

References

External links

• Alfred Gough at IMDb

На других языках

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[de] Alfred Gough

Alfred Fabian Gough III (* 22. August 1967 in Leonardtown, Maryland) ist ein US-amerikanischer Drehbuchautor und Filmproduzent.

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- [en] Alfred Gough

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[es] Alfred Gough

Fabián Alfred "Al" Gough III nació el 22 de agosto de 1967 en Leonardtown, Maryland, Estados Unidos. Es guionista y productor de cine y televisión.

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[ru] Гоф, Альфред

А́льфред Гоф (англ. Alfred Gough; род. 1967 в Леонардтауне) — американский сценарист и продюсер кино и телевидения.

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