Colin Trevorrow

Colin T Trevorrow US trəˈvɑːroʊ born September 13 1976 is an American film director and screenwriter He directed the indie film Safety Not Guaranteed 2012 and the blockbuster film Jurassic World 2015 and also cowrote the script to Jurassic World and its 2018 sequel Trevorrow was born on September 13 1976 in San Francisco California He 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 daycare center He is Jewish on his mothers side 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 Universitys Tisch School of the Arts in 1999 In 2002 he wrote and directed his first short film Home Base as of 2012 it had received over 20 million hits online Trevorrows first theatrical release was with Reality Show a 2004 documentary film about the failed production of a reality television show 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 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 Somebody to go back in time with me This is not a joke PO Box 322 Oakview CA 93022 Youll get paid after we get back Must bring your own weapons Safety not guaranteed I have only done this once before 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 an asyet unmade remake of the film Flight of the Navigator 1986 Trevorrow cowrote and directed Jurassic World 2015 and also provided his voice for the films character of Mr DNA Connolly and Trevorrow also cowrote the screenplay for its sequel Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom which was released in June 2018 and for which Trevorrow is an executive producer After Jurassic World Trevorrow next directed The Book of Henry which was written by Gregg Hurwitz The film was released by Focus Features on June 16 2017 to generally negative reviews although Trevorrow stood by the film On March 30 2018 it was announced that Trevorrow would be returning to the Jurassic Park franchise to direct Jurassic World 3 2021 Description above from the Wikipedia article Colin Trevorow licensed under CCBYSA ful list of contributors on Wikipedia