Colin Trevorrow

• 1. Early Life And Education

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  Colin Trevorrow was born on the 13th of September 1976 in San Francisco, California. He grew up in Oakland where his father played music in a country rock band and his mother worked as a photographer while running a day-care center. His maternal grandmother carried Sephardic Jewish ancestry with ancestors who settled in the Caribbean centuries ago. As a child he sang in the chorus of the San Francisco Opera. During his teenage years he won awards from both the Mill Valley Film Festival and the San Francisco Youth Film Festival. He graduated from Piedmont High School before earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in film and dramatic writing from New York University Tisch School of the Arts in 1999.

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• 2. Independent Film Breakthrough

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  Trevorrow directed Safety Not Guaranteed in 2012 based on a classified advertisement that appeared in Backwoods Home Magazine during 1997. The ad 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. Derek Connolly wrote the script for Trevorrow to direct. The film received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Feature. It also picked up the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at Sundance where it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize. After its release Disney hired Trevorrow and Connolly to write an unmade remake of Flight of the Navigator from 1986.

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• 3. Mainstream Franchise Success

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  Trevorrow co-wrote and directed Jurassic World which opened in 2015. The film earned more than $1.6 billion at the worldwide box office. He provided his voice for the character Mr. DNA within the movie. He later co-wrote the sequel Fallen Kingdom released in June 2018 while serving as executive producer. In March 2018 he returned to direct Jurassic World Dominion which arrived in theaters in 2022. His work on these films established him as a major force in modern blockbuster cinema.

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• 4. Star Wars Departure

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  Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn announced in August 2015 that Trevorrow would direct Star Wars Episode IX. He and Connolly began writing the script titled Duel of the Fates. By August 2017 writer Jack Thorne joined to rewrite the script due to dissatisfaction by Lucasfilm with their draft. In September 2017 Trevorrow was let go from the project because of creative differences. J.J. Abrams replaced him as director and co-wrote the final script with Chris Terrio. Trevorrow retained story credit for the film now known as The Rise of Skywalker. He donated residuals from the production to charity.

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• 5. Production Company Ventures

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  Trevorrow founded Metronome Film Co. in 2019 with offices across London and Los Angeles. His first produced film under this banner is Deep Cover set for release by Amazon MGM Studios on the 12th of June 2025. This film will serve as the Centrepiece Headliner at the inaugural SXSW London festival. Other projects include Trash Mountain which Eddie Vaisman and Julia Lebedev are producing alongside Trevorrow. Lilly Wachowski is set to direct that film while Caleb Hearon and Ruby Caster write the script. Hearon will also star in the movie about a young gay man returning to rural Missouri.

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