Warner Bros. announced in 2009 that John Stevenson, director of Kung Fu Panda, was working on a new He-Man film, Grayskull, with scripting duties handed to Daugherty.
[6] Daugherty's original screenplay, Snow White and the Huntsman was sold to Universal Pictures for $3.2 million.
Daugherty's idea for Snow White and the Huntsman came from a homework assignment by his professor at New York University to "take a new spin on a classic fairytale".
[9] In 2015 the film was nominated for five Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Screenplay.
[10] He was also set to write and executive produce Esmeralda for ABC, based on The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, though no new details have since emerged.