---
name: "Drew Hancock"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/drew-hancock"
fi1m_id: "drew-hancock"
imdb_id: "nm1289733"
tmdb_id: 1087245
wikidata_id: "Q127050054"
roles: ["Writer","Director"]
born: "9 July 1979"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T09:00:45.639842+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Drew Hancock

## Identity

Drew Hancock

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/drew-hancock
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** drew-hancock
- **IMDb ID:** nm1289733
- **TMDB ID:** 1087245
- **Wikidata ID:** Q127050054
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Hancock, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q127050054, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1289733/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1087245

Writer and director. Born 9 July 1979 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Director
- **Born:** 9 July 1979, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
- **Active:** 2010–present
- **Also known as:** درو هنکاک
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 1 directing, 1 writing, 1 other
- **Frequently works with:** [Ken Whittingham](https://film.one/person/ken-whittingham.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 70 (1), 2020s 72 (2)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Hancock, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q127050054, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1289733/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1087245

## Coming up

- *Seasons* (2027-11-12), Director

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Companion*](https://film.one/film/companion.md) (70)
- **Netflix:** [*Suburgatory*](https://film.one/tv/suburgatory.md) (70)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Drew Hancock

> Drew Hancock spent a decade writing broad television comedy before making *Companion* (2025), a lean, well-acted thriller that treats a killer-robot story as a break-up. It is a good start, sharper in its ideas than in its second half, and Sophie Thatcher is the reason to see it.

The best thing in *Companion* (2025) is a woman finding out what she is. Sophie Thatcher plays Iris, a robot built to love one man and to want nothing for herself, and Drew Hancock's script gives her about forty minutes to work that out at a lake house full of people who already know. It is as sharp as anything the genre has managed lately, and it is the stretch that shows what Hancock is for.

He came to it late. Hancock spent the 2010s in television writers' rooms, on *Blue Mountain State* (2010), *Suburgatory* (2011), *Supah Ninjas* (2011) and *Mr. Pickles* (2014), with the film *Fred 3: Camp Fred* (2012) in between. Most of it was broad, youth-oriented comedy that few critics paid attention to. *Suburgatory* was the exception, and we liked its first season, though nothing in it announced the writer of *Companion*. He co-created *My Dead Ex* (2018), a romantic comedy series, and then wrote *Companion* as a spec script, because, by his own account, he had nothing on file that showed the kind of films he actually liked.

The apprenticeship shows in both directions. Hancock has said he wanted the film to be "more like 'Marriage Story' than 'Minority Report'", and the first half earns the comparison: the jokes land, the tone holds, and the robot is a person before she is a plot. Then the film becomes a chase, and the chase is the less interesting half. Bodies pile up, the argument about men who want women without wills is treated as already won, and the question we cared about, what Iris wants once she has stopped wanting Josh, never gets an answer. We sat forward for that first stretch and slumped a little when the knives came out, because we could see the better film Hancock had been writing and watched him put it down.

Two more jobs are lined up: a remake of *The Faculty* to write, and a feature called *Seasons* to direct. The remake sounds like the safer of the two. What *Companion* suggests is a writer who knows how to set a thing up and has not yet learned to trust the set-up over the pay-off. If *Seasons* stays put with its people for the whole running time, he may have something.

## Biography

Drew Hancock is an American writer and director. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and began his career writing for television series including *Blue Mountain State* (2010), *Suburgatory* (2011) and *Mr. Pickles* (2014). He created the series *My Dead Ex* (2018).

*Companion* (2025) marked his feature directorial debut; he also wrote the science fiction thriller, which stars Sophie Thatcher and Jack Quaid.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Directed (1)

- *Companion* (2025), Fi1m 70, Writer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/companion.md)

### Wrote (1) — the average rests on these

- *Suburgatory* (2011), Fi1m 70, Executive Story Editor, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/suburgatory.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Weapons* (2025), Fi1m 75, Thanks — [page](https://film.one/film/weapons.md)

## Complete filmography (28)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Seasons* (2027), Director, Writer
- *Weapons* (2025), Thanks — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/weapons.md)
- *Companion* (2025), Writer, Director — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/companion.md)
- *Art Prison* (2018), Thanks
- *My Dead Ex* (2018), series, Writer, Creator
- *Mr. Pickles* (2014), series, Writer
- *Faking It* (2014), series, Writer
- *FRED 3: Camp Fred* (2012), Writer
- *Fred: The Show* (2012), series, Writer
- *Suburgatory* (2011), series, Executive Story Editor, Writer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/suburgatory.md)
- *Supah Ninjas* (2011), series, Writer
- *Blue Mountain State* (2010), series, Story Editor, Writer, Staff Writer
- *Everything* (2009), series, as Talking Hand (voice) · Director, Animation
- *Tenacious D: The Complete Masterworks 2* (2008), Director
- *The Mountain* (2008), series, as Eugene Jones · Creator, Director, Writer, Executive Producer
- *Planners* (2008), series, as Intense Fiance
- *Water and Power* (2008), series, as Safety Sam
- *The Bed & Breakfast Club* (2008), series, as Fast Keith
- *Cautionary Tales of Swords* (2007), series, as Kid #2, Batman's Roomate · Director, Writer, Editor, Cinematography, Creator
- *Acceptable.tv* (2007), series, Supervising Producer, Director
- *Tenacious D: Time Fixers* (2006), as Einstein · Director
- *Christmas World 2050* (2006), series, as Jerome / King Snyder · Director, Writer, Creator
- *musium of soda* (2006), series, Actor
- *Losting* (2005), series, Actor
- *The Wastelander* (2005), series, Director, Writer, Executive Producer, Creator
- *Yacht Rock* (2005), series, as John Oates, Otes
- *Gregory Shitcock, P.I.* (2005), series, as Gregory Shitcock, P.I. · Creator
- *The Faculty*, Screenplay

## Gallery

- ![Drew Hancock](https://film.one/media/person/8723/gallery-d43ff34cb444.jpg) Drew Hancock — Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Drew_Hancock_-_Companion.jpg/1280px-Drew_Hancock_-_Companion.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Drew Hancock](https://film.one/media/person/8723/gallery-bd7bda6609aa.jpg) Drew Hancock — Image via TMDB
- ![Drew Hancock](https://film.one/media/person/8723/gallery-49c134b03ecc.jpg) Drew Hancock — Image via TMDB
- ![Drew Hancock](https://film.one/media/person/8723/gallery-c2abb2f6d449.jpg) Drew Hancock — Image via TMDB

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