Daniel Goldberg Dies: ‘The Hangover’ Trilogy Producer, ‘Late Shift’ Emmy Nominee & ‘Stripes’ Co-Writer Was 74
deadline.comDaniel Goldberg, who produced all three The Hangover films, Space Jam, Old School and many others and co-wrote movies including the Bill Murray comedies Stripes and Meatballs, died today in Los Angeles.
He was 74. Filmmaker Jason Reitman, whose late father Ivan Reitman directed Stripes and Meatballs and had known Goldberg since their college days in the 1960s, confirmed the news to Deadline but did not provide other details.
Goldberg and Ivan Reitman collaborated for more than 30 years, working together on features including the animated Heavy Metal (1981); toon/live-action hybrid Space Jam (1996), starring Michael Jordan alongside Looney Toons characters; 1994’s Junior, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as the world’s first pregnant man, along with Danny DeVito and Emma Thompson; the 1997 Robin Williams-Billy Crystal comedy Fathers’ Day; the 1998 Harrison Ford-Anne Heche adventure pic Six Days Seven Nights; Howard Stern’s Private Parts, which the shock jock infamously promoted at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival; Road Trip (2000); the 2001 sci-fi comedy Evolution, starring David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Seann William Scott and Julianne Moore; the Heather Graham-Joseph Fiennes thriller Killing Me Softly (2002) and the Vince Vaughn-Luke Wilson-Will Ferrell comedy Old School (2003).
Goldberg got his start with Meatballs, the raunchy 1979 summer-camp comedy with Murray in his first big-starring starring role after having replaced Chevy Chase on Saturday Night Live.
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