
Birthdate: 1983
Dave Green (birthname: David Green) is a veteran of short films and music videos who broke into feature directing with the sci fi movie, Earth to Echo (2014), with Teo Halm and Brian “Astro” Bradley, written by Henry Gayden and produced (in part) by Ryan Kavanaugh, and which was sold by distributor Disney to Kavanaugh’s Relativity Media in 2013 for a theatrical release the following year returning a good $45.3 million (based on estimated costs). Green’s second feature as director was the sequel, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016), co-starring Megan Fox, Will Arnett, Laura Linney, Stephen Amell, Noel Fisher, Alan Ritchson, Tyler Perry, Brian Tee and Brad Garrett, produced (in part) by Michael Bay with Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies and released by Paramount to a $246 million gross.
Green directed the long-in-gestation live-action Warner Animation Group’s animated comedy, Coyote vs. Acme (filmed in 2022 but not released until 2026), co-written by Samy Burch, James Gunn and Jeremy Slater adapting Ian Frazier’s 1990 New Yorker magazine article, with the voices of Will Forte, Lana Condor, Tone Bell, Luis Guzman, Martha Kelly, Jim Cummings and John Cena, produced (in part) by Gunn, and which was released wide by Ketchup Entertainment.
Dave Green was born and raised in the United States by his parents.
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Early Video and Shorts: Dave Green worked with major talent early on in his career as a director of music videos and shorts with videos and short comedies featuring Miles Fisher; co-directing an animated short film titled Meltdown (2009), with David Cross; directing a 2010 TV series of shorts titled Zombie Roadkill, starring Thomas Haden Church and produced by Sam Raimi; and directing a short film for Adam McKay’s and Will Ferrell’s Funny or Die website in 2011.
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