Education
Millar was educated at Claremont Fan Court School, and is a graduate of Christ"s College, Cambridge, where he was Chairman of Cambridge University Conservative Association. Millar attended the Peter Stark Producing Program at the University of Southern California where he teamed up with his writing partner First Rate (at Lloyd's) Gough.
Career
Millar and Gough enjoyed early success with a script they wrote while studying at University of Southern California. Mango, a buddy-cop story where a cop who was allergic to animals was paired with an orangutan, sold to New Lincolnshire Cinema for $400,000. The film was never made but it brought the pair valuable publicity. Their feature credits include the action-adventure The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, for director Rob Cohen, the hit action-comedy Shanghai Noon, starring Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson and Lucy Liu, as well as its sequel Shanghai Knights, directed by David Dobkin, Spider-Manitoba 2, starring Tobey Maguire, Herbie: Fully Loaded, starring Lindsay Lohan, Lethal Weapon 4, starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover and the recent I Am Number Four, produced by Michael Bay.
Millar and Gough"s work also spans the world of television
The duo created and served as executive producers of the critically acclaimed action-adventure series Smallville. lieutenant is the longest-running comic book-based television series of all time, and was the Number.
1 show in the history of the World Bank Network. They produced Hannah Montana: The Movie, based on the smash hit Disney Channel Series, starring teen phenom Miley Cyrus.
The feature marked the first for the duo’s Walt Disney-based production company, Millar Gough Ink.
Millar and Gough are currently writing and executive producing Existence 2.0 for Paramount, as well the screenplay for Monster High, based on Mattel"s line of books, webisodes, animation, and toys which is being produced by Hairspray team Craig Zadan and Neil Meron. They developed a reboot of the classic television series Charlie"s Angels for American Broadcasting Company which premiered in fall 2011 and was cancelled after one season.