Colin Trevorrow

Colin T. Trevorrow[1] (US: /trəˈvɑːroʊ/;[2] born September 13, 1976) is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. He directed the indie film Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) and the blockbuster film Jurassic World (2015). He co-wrote the latter and its sequel Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018). He later co-wrote and directed the Jurassic World short film Battle at Big Rock (2019), and the film Jurassic World: Dominion (2022). He was also originally slated to write and direct Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019), titled Duel of the Fates at the time, but he left the project and received a story credit, replaced by J.J. Abrams (who co-wrote and directed Star Wars: The Force Awakens), and the title was changed.

Colin Trevorrow
Trevorrow at the premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens in December 2015
Born
Colin T. Trevorrow

(1976-09-13) September 13, 1976
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Alma materTisch School of the Arts
OccupationFilm director, screenwriter, film producer
Years active2002–present
Spouse(s)Isabelle Trevorrow
Children2

Early life

Trevorrow was born on September 13, 1976[1] in San Francisco, California.[3] He was raised in Oakland, California.[3][4][5][6] His father was a musician in a country rock band and his mother was a photographer who also operated a day-care center.[4] He is Jewish on his mother's side.[7]

As a boy, he sang in the chorus of the San Francisco Opera.[4] As a teenager, Trevorrow won awards from the Mill Valley Film Festival and the San Francisco Youth Film Festival.[8] Trevorrow graduated from Piedmont High School in Piedmont, California[8][9] and later graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1999.[10]

Career

In 2002, he wrote and directed his first short film, Home Base; as of 2012, it had received over 20 million hits online.[11] Trevorrow's first theatrical release was with Reality Show, a 2004 documentary film about the failed production of a reality television show.[12] Trevorrow sold 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.[13]

Trevorrow (left) and Christopher Nolan at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.

In 2012, Trevorrow directed Safety Not Guaranteed,[14] a film inspired by a classified advertisement which ran in a 1997 issue of Backwoods Home Magazine that read: "Somebody to go back in time with me. This is not a joke. P.O. Box 322, Oakview, CA 93022. You'll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. Safety not guaranteed. I have only done this once before."[15] The script was by Connolly, who intended for Trevorrow to direct it.[16] The film received various accolades, including a nomination for Trevorrow for the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature.[11] The film was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, where it picked up the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award.[17] After the release of Safety Not Guaranteed, Trevorrow and Connolly were hired by the Walt Disney Company to write an as-yet unmade remake of the film Flight of the Navigator (1986).[18] Trevorrow co-wrote and directed Jurassic World (2015),[19][20] and also provided his voice for the film's character of Mr. DNA.[21][22] Connolly and Trevorrow also co-wrote the screenplay for its sequel, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,[23] which was released in June 2018 and for which Trevorrow is an executive producer.[24]

After Jurassic World, Trevorrow next directed The Book of Henry, which was written by Gregg Hurwitz.[25] The film was released by Focus Features on June 16, 2017[26][27] to generally negative reviews, although Trevorrow stood by the film.[28]

In March 2015, it was announced that Trevorrow would be directing the sci-fi thriller film Intelligent Life, which was bought by DreamWorks.[29] Trevorrow wrote the screenplay with Connolly, while Trevorrow, Frank Marshall, Big Beach, and Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment were announced as producing the film.[29] While there has been other production news since, including Ava DuVernay being attached to direct,[30] as of December 2019 the film has not entered into production.

In August 2015, Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn announced that Trevorrow would direct Star Wars: Episode IX (2019).[31] Trevorrow and Connolly subsequently began writing the script for the film; titled Star Wars: Duel of the Fates.[32][33] However, in August 2017, writer Jack Thorne was brought in to rewrite the script due to dissatisfaction by Lucasfilm with their script.[34][35] By September 2017, Trevorrow was let go from the project due to creative differences and was replaced as director by Star Wars: The Force Awakens director J. J. Abrams, who co-wrote the script with Chris Terrio.[36] However, Trevorrow and Connolly still received story writing credit in addition to Abrams and Terrio.[37] Trevorrow donated residuals he earned from the film to charity.[38]

On March 30, 2018 it was announced that Trevorrow would be returning to the Jurassic Park franchise to direct Jurassic World: Dominion (2022).[39]

Personal life

Trevorrow lives with his wife, Isabelle, and two children in the United Kingdom.[11][40]

Filmography

Film
Year Title Director Writer Producer Notes
2002 Home Base Yes Yes Yes Short film
2003 Making Revolution Yes
2004 Reality Show Yes Yes Yes Documentary film
2012 Safety Not Guaranteed Yes Yes
2015 Jurassic World Yes Yes Voice cameo: Mr. DNA
2017 The Book of Henry Yes
2018 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Yes Executive
2019 Battle at Big Rock Yes Yes Short film
2019 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Story Replaced as director by J.J. Abrams
2022 Jurassic World: Dominion Yes Yes Executive

Television
Year Title Director Writer Producer Notes
2005 Gary: Under Crisis Yes Yes Yes Television film
Co-directed with Daniel Klein
2016 Lego Jurassic World: The Indominus Escape Executive 2 episodes; also production consultant
2020 Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous Executive

References
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