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Terry Rossio (born July 2, 1960) is an American screenwriter. He co-wrote the films Aladdin, Shrek, and all five of the Pirates of the Caribbean series. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Shrek, and won the Annie Award for Writing in a Feature Production, as well as the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Shrek. He often collaborates with fellow screenwriter Ted Elliott.

Terry Rossio
Rossio in 2009
Born	(1960-07-02) July 2, 1960 (age 62) Kalamazoo, Michigan, U.S.[citation needed]
Occupation	Screenwriter
Years active	1989–present

Life and career

Rossio was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan.^{[citation needed]} After graduating from Saddleback High School in Santa Ana, California, he went on to study at California State University, Fullerton where he received his Bachelor of Arts in Communications, with an emphasis in radio, television and film. He is the founder of Wordplay, also known as Wordplayer.com, one of the premier screenwriting sites on the Internet.

Along with his writing partner Ted Elliott, Rossio has written some of the most successful American films of the past 30 years, including Aladdin, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and Shrek. He is the eleventh-most successful screenwriter of all time in terms of domestic box office receipts with totals at around $5.5 billion.[1] In May 1993, Rossio and Elliott were hired by TriStar Pictures to write a screenplay for Godzilla, which featured Godzilla battling a shape-shifting alien in New York. Their script was dropped by Roland Emmerich in favor of a new script of his own co–written with Dean Devlin. However, Rossio and Elliott retained a "Story By" credit.[2]

In 2015, Dodie Gold Management filed a Commissions Non-Payment Lawsuit against Rossio and sought a jury trial for "damages of more than $25,000 plus a court declaration that they are entitled to the 10% commissions and a full look at the records and accounting of Rossio and his Chamaeleon Productions."[3] In March 2017, Legendary Entertainment announced that Rossio would lead their writers room to help develop the story for Godzilla vs. Kong.[4] He received "story by" credit on the film.[5] In June 2019, Rossio was announced as the screenwriter for The Amazing Maurice.[6]

In 2021, Rossio and Bill Marsilii sold their spec script Time Zone to Amazon Studios. The film will be a joint venture between Amazon Studios and Davis Entertainment.[7]

Personal life

Controversy

Rossio created controversy when he argued in support of parents of vaccine-injured children by citing the N-word as a slur not to be emulated with the phrase Anti-Vax.[8] In November 2018, Rossio tweeted: "My heart goes out to all the parents of vaccine damaged children, who have to not only endure the sadness of their loss, but also the vitriol of ill-informed and insensitive people (such as those here). Anti-Vax is equivalent to calling someone a nigger and makes as little sense". Rossio received backlash for using the slur, and for comparing anti-vaccination defenders with victims of racism. Two days later, Rossio apologized for using the slur, stating, "that was a mistake. I am sorry. I now understand that the word has no place in any conversation, ever."[9]

Filmography (partial)

Year	Film	Credit	Notes	Ref.
1989	Little Monsters	Written by	Co-wrote with Ted Elliott
1992	Aladdin	Screenplay by	Co-wrote screenplay with Ted Elliott & Ron Clements and John Musker
1994	The Puppet Masters	Screenplay by	Co-wrote screenplay with Ted Elliott and David S. Goyer
1997	Men in Black	Uncredited work
1998	The Mask of Zorro	Screenplay by Story by	Co-wrote screenplay with John Eskow and Ted Elliott Co-wrote story with Ted Elliott and Randall Jahnson
	Godzilla	Story by	Early unproduced screenplay; Co-wrote with Ted Elliott	[2]
	Small Soldiers	Written by	Co-wrote with Ted Elliott & Gavin Scott and Adam Rifkin
2000	The Road to El Dorado	Written by	Co-wrote with Ted Elliott
2001	Shrek	Written by Co-producer	Co-wrote with Ted Elliott & Joe Stillman and Roger S. H. Schulman
2002	Treasure Planet	Story by	Co-wrote story with Ted Elliott & Ron Clements and John Musker
2003	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	Screenplay by Story by	Co-wrote screenplay with Ted Elliott Co-wrote story with Ted Elliott & Stuart Beattie and Jay Wolpert
2004	National Treasure	Uncredited work
2005	The Legend of Zorro	Story by	Co-wrote story with Ted Elliott & Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman
2006	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	Written by	Co-wrote with Ted Elliott
	Déjà Vu	Written by Executive producer	Co-wrote with Bill Marsilii
2007	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End	Written by	Co-wrote with Ted Elliott
	National Treasure: Book of Secrets	Story by	Co-wrote story with Ted Elliott & Gregory Poirier & Cormac Wibberley and Marianne Wibberley
2009	G-Force	Associate producer	Uncredited rewrite
2011	Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides	Screenplay by Executive producer	Co-wrote screenplay with Ted Elliott
	Pirates of the Caribbean: Tales of the Code – Wedlocked	Written by	Short film Co-wrote with Ted Elliott
2013	Lovestruck: The Musical	Written by Executive producer	Co-wrote with Jaylynn Bailey
	The Lone Ranger	Screenplay by Executive producer	Co-wrote screenplay with Ted Elliott and Justin Haythe
2015	Jake and the Never Land Pirates	Storyboards	Episode #89 - Captain Frost Co-wrote storyboards with Ted Elliott
2017	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales	Story by Executive producer	Early unproduced screenplay Co-wrote story with Jeff Nathanson
2019	Aladdin	Based on	Credited with Ted Elliott & Ron Clements and John Musker
2021	Godzilla vs. Kong	Story by	Head of writers room Co-wrote story with Michael Dougherty and Zach Shields	[10][4]
2022	The Amazing Maurice	Screenplay by		[6]
2024	Untitled Godzilla vs. Kong sequel	Screenplay by	Co–wrote with Jeremy Slater and Simon Barrett	[11]
TBA	Time Zone	Screenplay by	Co–wrote with Bill Marsilii	[7]

Other credits

Year	Film	Role
1998	Antz	Consultant/advisor
2003	Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
2004	Shrek 2	Creative consultant

References

External links

• Wordplayer.com
• Terry Rossio at IMDb

На других языках

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[de] Terry Rossio

Terry Rossio (* 2. Juli 1960 in Kalamazoo, Michigan) ist ein US-amerikanischer Drehbuchautor.

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- [en] Terry Rossio

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[ru] Россио, Терри

Терри Россио (англ. Terry Rossio; род. 2 июля 1960 года) — американский сценарист и продюсер.

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