Terry Rossio is an American screenwriter, producer, and storyboard artist.
Biography[]
Rossio was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. 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 a.k.a. 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 15 years, including Aladdin, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, and Shrek. He is the second most successful screenwriter of all time in terms of domestic box office receipts with totals at around $2.5 billion.
Filmography (partial listing)[]
- 1992 - Aladdin (screenwriter)
- 2002 - Treasure Planet (story by)
- 2003 - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (screenwriter)
- 2004 - National Treasure (screenwriter) (uncredited)
- 2006 - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (screenwriter)
- 2007
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (screenwriter)
- National Treasure: Book of Secrets (story)
- 2009 - G-Force (associate producer/writer uncredited)
- 2011 - Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (screenwriter/executive producer)
- 2013 - The Lone Ranger (screenwriter/executive producer)
- 2014 - Jake and the Never Land Pirates (writer: segment "Captain Frost")
- 2017 - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (story by/executive producer; screenwriter: unproduced screenplay)
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Trivia[]
- In January 2011, Terry Rossio was confirmed to write the screenplay for the fifth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean series, but without his co-writer Ted Elliott. Rossio's script was ultimately rejected, and the writer stated that a major reason was its use of a female villain, which made actor Johnny Depp "worried that would be redundant to Dark Shadows, which also featured a female villain." Following the theatrical release for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales in 2017, Rossio released his unproduced screenplay on his website Wordplay, which includes additional information in extensive footnotes. Although Terry Rossio shared story credit with Jeff Nathanson, Rossio affirmed that he did not collaborate with Nathanson and that he was not involved with most of the story-related decisions in the final version of the film.
