Chris Terrio  Biography

Chris Terrio is an American screenwriter and film director. He is best known for writing the screenplay for the 2012 film Argo, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Also, he won the Writers Guild Award for Best Adapted Screenplay of 2012 and was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay, a BAFTA, and the 2013 Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Terrio wrote the screenplay for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. This was the follow-up to Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel, based on an earlier draft by David S. Goyer, and co-wrote the film’s 2017 follow-up, Justice League, for Warner Bros.

Chris Terrio Age

Chris Terrio was born in Staten Island, New York, United States on December 31, 1976. He is 42 years as of 2018.

Chris Terrio Family

Terrio was born in Staten Island, New York, United States and raised in a Catholic family in Staten Island. He is of Italian, Irish, and Acadian descent. In 1997, he graduated from Harvard University, where he studied English literature and German phenomenology. He lived in Adams House and participated in the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club and the Hasty Pudding Theatricals.

Terrio attended the University of Cambridge for his MLitt but eventually decided to enroll in film school. He received his master’s degree from the USC School of Cinematic Arts in 2002.

Chris Terrio Wife

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Chris Terrio Career

Directing

His career as a director began at age 26, he directed the feature film Heights (Sony Pictures Classics, 2005), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. It follows a pivotal twenty-four hours in the interconnected lives of five New Yorkers. The film stars Glenn Close, Elizabeth Banks, James Marsden, and Jesse Bradford, and features Isabella Rossellini, George Segal and Rufus Wainwright in small roles. It was one of the final films produced by Ismail Merchant. The film won a “Best Independent Feature Film Casting” award from the Casting Society of America, USA in 2005.

In 2010, he directed the episode “I Look Like Frankenstein”, which was Episode 8 in Season 3 of Damages on FX. In 2002, he directed, wrote and produced a short film entitled Book of Kings, which starred Aasif Mandvi among others.

It premiered at Robert De Niro’s first annual Tribeca Film Festival in 2002 and continued to play on film circuits around the world, picking up several major awards.

Screenwriting

Terrio wrote the script for Argo, winning the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the screenplay, and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. His screenplay was also nominated for Best Screenplay awards from the Golden Globes and the BAFTA Awards.

For the Argo screenplay, he additionally won Best Screenplay or Best Adapted Screenplay respects from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, the Online Film Critics Society Awards, the Austin Film Critics Association, the Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards, the San Diego Film Critics Society Awards, the Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards, the 2013 University of Southern California (USC) Scripter Award, and the Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards.

He inexactly adjusted the screenplay dependent on a Wired article by Joshuah Bearman entitled “The Great Escape” and the life account of Tony Mendez, The Master of Disguise, enhancing that material with a broad research of his own.

Terrio also wrote the screenplays for two films he directed: the feature film Heights, which screened at the Sundance Film Festival, and the award-winning short film Book of Kings.

Additionally, he re-wrote David S. Goyer’s script for Warner Bros.’ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), and also wrote the screenplay for the ensemble film Justice League (2017). On January 30, 2017, it was announced that Terrio had performed a re-write on Ben Affleck’s script for an untitled Batman movie, which Affleck co-wrote with DCEU co-runner and producer Geoff Johns.

Terrio has also been hired by Paramount Pictures and Indian Paintbrush to write the script for the drama A Murder Foretold, based on an article in The New Yorker by David Grann revolving around a number of high-profile murders in Guatemala. Terrio hopes to direct his own screenplay.

Terrio has completed the adaptation of Harlan Coben’s novel, Tell No One, for Warner Bros., with Ben Affleck also being attached to direct. There has already been a French film directed by Guillaume Canet based on the novel. In addition, Terrio has written a screenplay for a film adaptation of Richard II, which director James Ivory intends to film in 3D.

On September 12, 2017, it was announced that Terrio would be co-writing the script for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker with director J.J. Abrams. The film will be released on December 20, 2019.

Terrio has also edited the documentary short First Out. He has worked on the Ivory-Merchant films (directed by James Ivory) Le Divorce and The Golden Bowl. He was also previously an assistant to Ivory.

He also served as an assistant director on the short film Equation, directed by Anuj Majumdar, and was also a grip on the short film Awake, directed by Lori Lovoy-Goran, who won a DGA Student Film Award and an SXSW Competition Award for her documentary short film In Between Days.

Chris Terrio Net Worth

Terrio is an American film director and screenwriter based in New York City he has an estimated net worth of $45 Million.

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