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Years active
  
2002-present

Name
  
Colin Trevorrow


Education
  
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Born
  
September 13, 1976 (age 47) (
1976-09-13
)

Occupation
  
Film director, screenwriter

Movies
  
Jurassic World, Safety Not Guaranteed, The Book of Henry, Star Wars: Episode IX, Home Base

Similar People
  
Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt, Nick Robinson, Ty Simpkins, Derek Connolly

Profiles

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Colin T. Trevorrow (; born September 13, 1976) is an American film director and screenwriter. He is known for directing the indie film Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) and the blockbuster film Jurassic World (2015), which he also co-wrote. He was initially slated to direct Star Wars: Episode IX for a 2019 release but left the project in 2017 due to creative differences.

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Early life

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Trevorrow was born in San Francisco, California, on September 13, 1976, and was raised in Oakland, California. His father was a musician in a country rock band and his mother was a photographer who also operated a day-care center. As a boy, he sang in the chorus of the San Francisco Opera. As a teenager, Trevorrow won awards from the Mill Valley Film Festival and the San Francisco Youth Film Festival. Trevorrow graduated from Piedmont High School in Piedmont, California, and later graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1999.

Career

In 2002, he wrote and directed his first short film, Home Base; as of 2012, it had received over 20 million hits online. Trevorrow also directed Reality Show, a 2004 documentary film about the failed production of a reality television show. He continued working as a screenwriter, selling his first spec script titled Tester to DreamWorks in 2006. In 2008, he paired up with Derek Connolly, ten years after they had first met as NYU students while working as interns on Saturday Night Live, to write a buddy cop film script called Cocked and Loaded. Trevorrow said that the experience was so enjoyable that he decided to give up solo screenwriting and work with Connolly.

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In 2012, Trevorrow directed Safety Not Guaranteed, a film inspired by a classified advertisement which ran in a 1997 issue of Backwoods Home Magazine that read: "Wanted: Someone to go back in time with me. This is not a joke. Must bring your own weapons. I have only done this once before. Safety Not Guaranteed." The script was by Connolly, who intended for Trevorrow to direct it. The film received various accolades, including a nomination for Trevorrow for the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature. The film was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, where it picked up the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. After the release of Safety Not Guaranteed, Trevorrow and Connolly were hired by the Walt Disney Company to write a remake of the film Flight of the Navigator (1986). Trevorrow co-wrote and directed Jurassic World (2015).

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Trevorrow next directed The Book of Henry, which was written by Gregg Hurwitz, and began filming in September 2015. The film was released by Focus Features on June 16, 2017. Trevorrow also co-wrote the screenplay for a Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, which is scheduled to be released in 2018. Trevorrow will co-executive produce the film alongside Steven Spielberg.

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In August 2015, Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn announced that Trevorrow would direct Star Wars Episode IX (2019). Trevorrow and Connolly subsequently began writing the script for the film; however in August 2017, writer Jack Thorne was brought in to rewrite the script due to dissatisfaction by Lucasfilm with their script. By September 2017, Trevorrow left the project due to creative differences. Lucasfilm released an official statement saying, "Colin has been a wonderful collaborator throughout the development process but we have all come to the conclusion that our visions for the project differ." Lucasfilm confirmed Star Wars: The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams will replace Trevorrow as the director and will co-write the script with Chris Terrio.

In March 2015, it was announced that Trevorrow would be directing a sci-fi thriller film Intelligent Life, which was bought by DreamWorks. Trevorrow wrote the screenplay with Connolly, while Trevorrow, Frank Marshall, Big Beach, and Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment would be producers on the film. On February 8, 2016, it was reported that Lupita Nyong'o was in talks to star in the film, with Ava DuVernay expected to direct the film for a summer start. DuVernay left the project over scheduling conflicts.

Personal life

Trevorrow lives with his wife and two children in Vermont. He has Sephardic Jewish ancestry through his grandmother.

References

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