Alfred Gough
Alfred Gough III (born August 22, 1967) is an American screenwriter and producer. He is best known as co-creator/co-showrunner of The WB's Superman prequel series "Smallville", alongside his friend and partner Miles Millar. 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. Millar and Gough 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. The film was never made, but it brought the pair valuable publicity. Career. Al Gough and Miles Millar have become prolific writers/producers. Their feature credits include the action-adventure "", the hit action-comedy "Shanghai Noon", as well as its sequel "Shanghai Knights", "Spider-Man 2", "", "Lethal Weapon 4", and "I Am Number Four". They also produced "", based on the smash hit Disney Channel series. 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. 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. 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. They developed a reboot of the TV series "Charlie's Angels" for ABC which premiered in Fall 2011. In 2010, Gough and Millar were attached to writing and executive producing a film based on the comic book "Existence 2.0  for Paramount, as well the screenplay for Monster High", based on Mattel's then-new line of books, webisodes, animation, and toys. In 2015, Gough and Miller created and executive produced "Into the Badlands", a martial-arts-based fantasy series for AMC. In October 2020, Gough and Millar signed on as showrunners on the streaming series "Wednesday".