\n\tJ. Todd Anderson, who worked as a storyboard artist on dozens of films from The Nice Guys and The Tragedy of Macbeth to Hail, Caesar! and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, has died. He was 67.<\/p>\n
\n\tAnderson died Thursday at a hospital in Orange County, California, after a years-long battle with cancer, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.<\/p>\n
\n\tBorn John Todd Anderson in Springfield, Ohio, he started working in Hollywood in the late 1980s. The first film he storyboarded, 1987\u2019s Raising Arizona, launched a long-running collaboration with filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen.<\/p>\n
\n\tSince then, he storyboarded every one of their movies, including 1990\u2019s Miller\u2019s Crossing (1990), Fargo (1996), The Big Lebowski (1998), The Ladykillers (2004), True Grit (2010), Hail, Caesar! (2016) and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018). He also worked on Ethan\u2019s Drive-Away Dolls (2024) and Honey Don\u2019t! (2025) and Joel\u2019s The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021).<\/p>\n
\n\tAnderson worked with several other auteurs and A-list stars on such projects as George Clooney\u2019s Leatherheads (2008); Drew Barrymore\u2019s Whip It (2009); David Lowery\u2019s The Old Man & the Gun (2018); The Dictator (2012), starring and co-written by Sacha Baron Cohen; and three Shane Black pics: The Nice Guys (2016) starring Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling, The Predator (2018) and Play Dirty (2025), starring Mark Wahlberg and LaKeith Stanfield.<\/p>\n
\n\tHis other storyboard credits included Twister (1989), The Addams Family (1991), Nadja (1994), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), The Big Bang (2010), Warcraft (2016) and Fool\u2019s Paradise (2023).<\/p>\n
\n\tAnderson also directed two films, The Naked Man (1999), which he wrote with Ethan, and My Mummy (2008), and made onscreen appearances in Fargo, Leatherheads, The Nice Guys and American Violence (2017), among other films.<\/p>\n
\n\tSurvivors include by his mother, Donna Lou, sister Kimberly and niece Haley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"J. Todd Anderson, who worked as a storyboard artist on dozens of films from The Nice Guys and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,10756],"class_list":["post-871503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}