He is best known for producing The Twilight Saga and The Maze Runner film series.

He is a partner of the production company Temple Hill Entertainment with his friend Marty Bowen, which they founded in 2006.

[1] In 2020, Godfrey left Paramount and returned to producing with Temple Hill Entertainment.

[2] Godfrey graduated from Science Hill High School in Johnson City, Tennessee,[1] earned a degree in English literature from Princeton University, and later moved to New York City, where he interned at New Line Cinema.

[3] In February 2006, he and his friend Marty Bowen founded their own production company, Temple Hill Entertainment, and produced The Nativity Story as their first film together.