
Birthday:
07-02-1960
(64 years)
Birthplace:
Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
Biography
Terry Rossio (born July 2, 1960) is an American screenwriter. 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.
Read morearrow_drop_down
Their works
- Release swap_vert
- Title swap_vert
- Ratings swap_vert
close
An Epic At Sea: The Making of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Act like Self
event2003 star_border 7.8
top_panel_open
Behind the scenes documentary of the making of Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, featuring behind the scenes footage, interviews with Cast and crew and revives some previously unknown background information.
According to Plan: The Making of 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest'
Act like Self
event2006 star_border 8.6
top_panel_open
Special feature documentary following the cast and crew through the making of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.
Johnny Depp: King of Cult
Act like Self
event2021 star_border 7.1
top_panel_open
Johnny Depp. One of the world's best known actors. Famous for his versatility and dedication to the characters he plays. Initially known as a teen idol for his tortured pretty-boy looks, Johnny Depp survived the perils of adolescent-heartthrob status to earn a reputation as a respected adult actor. Best known for his eccentric and unconventional film choices, Johnny Depp is perhaps one of the most versatile actors of his day and age in Hollywood, and has carved a legacy for himself as a serious, well-rounded performer. His tendency to frequently play freakishly eccentric outcasts whose oddities are misunderstood by society has made him one of the world's best character actors, with iconic roles such as Captain Jack Sparrow and Willy Wonka.
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Screenplay
event2003 star_border 7.8
top_panel_open
After Port Royal is attacked and pillaged by a mysterious pirate crew, capturing the governor's daughter Elizabeth Swann in the process, William Turner asks free-willing pirate Jack Sparrow to help him locate the crew's ship—The Black Pearl—so that he can rescue the woman he loves.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Screenplay
event2006 star_border 7.4
top_panel_open
Captain Jack Sparrow races to recover the heart of Davy Jones to avoid enslaving his soul to Jones' service, as other friends and foes seek the heart for their own agenda as well.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Screenplay
event2007 star_border 7.3
top_panel_open
Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann join forces with the revived Captain Barbossa to free Jack Sparrow from Davy Jones' locker. The group must navigate dangerous waters, confront many foes and, ultimately, choose sides in a battle wherein piracy itself hangs in the balance.
G-Force
Associate Producer
event2009 star_border 5.5
top_panel_open
A team of trained secret agent animals, guinea pigs Darwin, Hurley, Juarez, Blaster, mole Speckles, and fly Mooch takes on a mission for the US government to stop evil Leonard Saber, who plans to destroy the world with household appliances. But the government shuts them down and they are sentenced to a pet shop. Can they escape to defeat the villain and save the world?
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Story
event2007 star_border 6.4
top_panel_open
Benjamin Franklin Gates and Abigail Chase re-team with Riley Poole and, now armed with a stack of long-lost pages from John Wilkes Booth's diary, Ben must follow a clue left there to prove his ancestor's innocence in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Screenplay
event2011 star_border 6.6
top_panel_open
Captain Jack Sparrow crosses paths with a woman from his past, and he's not sure if it's love — or if she's a ruthless con artist who's using him to find the fabled Fountain of Youth. When she forces him aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge, the ship of the formidable pirate Blackbeard, Jack finds himself on an unexpected adventure in which he doesn't know who to fear more: Blackbeard or the woman from his past.
The Road to El Dorado
Screenplay
event2000 star_border 7.2
top_panel_open
Stowing away after a failed con, a pair of swindlers end up on El Dorado, the fabled "city of gold", where they quickly get in over their heads when they are mistaken as gods by the inhabitants.
Small Soldiers
Screenplay
event1998 star_border 6.5
top_panel_open
When missile technology is used to enhance toy action figures, the toys soon begin to take their battle programming too seriously.
The Puppet Masters
Screenplay
event1994 star_border 5.8
top_panel_open
The Earth is invaded by alien parasites—AKA 'slugs'—that ride on people's backs and control their minds.
The Lone Ranger
Screenplay
event2013 star_border 6.1
top_panel_open
The Texas Rangers chase down a gang of outlaws led by Butch Cavendish, but the gang ambushes the Rangers, seemingly killing them all. One survivor is found, however, by an American Indian named Tonto, who nurses him back to health. The Ranger, donning a mask and riding a white stallion named Silver, teams up with Tonto to bring the unscrupulous gang and others of that ilk to justice.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Characters
event2017 star_border 6.7
top_panel_open
Thrust into an all-new adventure, a down-on-his-luck Capt. Jack Sparrow feels the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost sailors led by his old nemesis, the evil Capt. Salazar, escape from the Devil's Triangle. Jack's only hope of survival lies in seeking out the legendary Trident of Poseidon, but to find it, he must forge an uneasy alliance with a brilliant and beautiful astronomer and a headstrong young man in the British navy.
Antz
Creative Consultant
event1998 star_border 6.2
top_panel_open
A neurotic worker ant in love with a rebellious princess rises to unlikely stardom when he switches places with a soldier. Signing up to march in a parade, he ends up under the command of a bloodthirsty general. But he's actually been enlisted to fight against a termite army.
The Death of Toys
Associate Producer
event2010
top_panel_open
Ten year-old SETH wants to give up his toys, but his work-numbed mother LILY needs the spark of their playtime more than he does. Her insistence that he keep the toys leads to some unexpected places.
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
Creative Consultant
event2003 star_border 7
top_panel_open
The sailor of legend is framed by the goddess Eris for the theft of the Book of Peace, and must travel to her realm at the end of the world to retrieve it and save the life of his childhood friend Prince Proteus.
The Mask of Zorro
Screenplay
event1998 star_border 6.6
top_panel_open
It has been twenty years since Don Diego de la Vega fought Spanish oppression in Alta California as the legendary romantic hero, Zorro. Having escaped from prison he transforms troubled bandit Alejandro into his successor, in order to foil the plans of the tyrannical Don Rafael Montero who robbed him of his freedom, his wife and his precious daughter.
Aladdin
Screenplay
event1992 star_border 7.7
top_panel_open
In the boorish city of Agrabah, kind-hearted street urchin Aladdin and Princess Jasmine fall in love, although she can only marry a prince. He and power-hungry Grand Vizier Jafar vie for a magic lamp that can fulfill their wishes.
Time Zone
Writer
top_panel_open
Time Zone is a science-fiction action thriller about a covert squad of first responders equipped with technology that allows them to manipulate time.
Little Monsters
Writer
event1989 star_border 5.9
top_panel_open
A young boy is scared of the monster under his bed. He asks his 6th grade brother to swap rooms for the night as a bet that the monster really exists. Soon the brother becomes friends with the monster and discovers a whole new world of fun and games under his bed where pulling pranks on kids and other monsters is the main attraction.
Déjà Vu
Screenplay
event2006 star_border 6.9
top_panel_open
Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, Federal agent Doug Carlin gets pulled away from the scene and taken to a top-secret government lab that uses a time-shifting surveillance device to help prevent crime.
Shrek
Co-Producer
event2001 star_border 7.7
top_panel_open
It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a mission to retrieve a gorgeous princess from the clutches of a fire-breathing dragon, Shrek teams up with an unlikely compatriot -- a wisecracking donkey.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Tales of the Code: Wedlocked
Writer
event2011 star_border 6.9
top_panel_open
Wenches Scarlett and Giselle fix each other up for their wedding, in which they would each marry their groom. Upon realizing that both their grooms were the same man, Jack Sparrow, the two wenches found themselves in an auction led by the Auctioneer. This short film serves as a prequel to The Curse of the Black Pearl, and explains just why Jack Sparrow's boat the Jolly Mon was seen sinking at the beginning of the whole story; why the wenches were so upset with him; and how Cotton lost his tongue.
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Screenplay
event2024 star_border 7.1
top_panel_open
Following their explosive showdown, Godzilla and Kong must reunite against a colossal undiscovered threat hidden within our world, challenging their very existence – and our own.
Laudry
Executive Producer
event2009
top_panel_open
Laundry raises the question of faith, is it real? Starring Amber Dawn Lee this film is beautifully shot, including aerial shots, and was done on film.
Protocol-7
Writer
event2024
top_panel_open
With the catastrophic regression of her adopted son, Lexi, a small-town lawyer, is confronted with the reality of corporate fraud at the highest level. Will she hold a massive corporation accountable in this true whistleblower story?
Captain Jokes Parrot's Disaster of the Caribbean
Characters
event2017 star_border 1
top_panel_open
In his special movie "Captain Jokes Parrot's Adventures: Disaster of the Caribbean" try to take his nervously funny achievements in a satirical style along Talking Hands, Tom and Lisa in the disaster movie of the 21st Century!. Will be able to fight against four famous Captains? (such as Captain Blackbeard, Captain Red, Captain Linares and Captain Salazar)
Treasure Planet
Story
event2002 star_border 7.6
top_panel_open
When space galleon cabin boy Jim Hawkins discovers a map to an intergalactic "loot of a thousand worlds," a cyborg cook named John Silver teaches him to battle supernovas and space storms on their journey to find treasure.
Shrek 2
Creative Consultant
event2004 star_border 7.3
top_panel_open
Shrek, Fiona, and Donkey set off to Far, Far Away to meet Fiona's mother and father, the Queen and King. But not everyone is happily ever after. Shrek and the King find it difficult to get along, and there's tension in the marriage. The Fairy Godmother discovers that Fiona has married Shrek instead of her son Prince Charming and plots to destroy their marriage.
Laboratory Conditions
Writer
event2018 star_border 7.8
top_panel_open
A physician investigating a missing body disrupts an unlawful experiment.
Godzilla
Story
event1998 star_border 5.6
top_panel_open
French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that viciously attacks freighter ships in the Pacific Ocean. A team of experts, including Niko Tatopoulos, conclude that the oversized reptile is the culprit. Before long, the giant lizard is loose in Manhattan as the US military races to destroy the monster before it reproduces and it's spawn takes over the world.
Lovestruck: The Musical
Writer
event2013 star_border 6.6
top_panel_open
Harper was one of the best dancers to hit Broadway, but an injury caused her to leave the spotlight, become a choreographer, and raise her daughter Mirabella. When Mirabella decides to quit the show to get married, her mother is determined to put a stop to the wedding and show Mirabella that she cannot give up her career for love.
The Amazing Maurice
Screenplay
event2022 star_border 6.8
top_panel_open
Maurice is a streetwise ginger cat who comes up with a money-making scam by befriending a group of self-taught talking rats. When Maurice and the rodents meet a bookworm called Malicia, their little con soon goes down the drain.
Shrek the Third
Characters
event2007 star_border 6.3
top_panel_open
The King of Far Far Away has died and Shrek and Fiona are to become King & Queen. However, Shrek wants to return to his cozy swamp and live in peace and quiet, so when he finds out there is another heir to the throne, they set off to bring him back to rule the kingdom.
Shrek Forever After
Characters
event2010 star_border 6.4
top_panel_open
A bored and domesticated Shrek pacts with deal-maker Rumpelstiltskin to get back to feeling like a real ogre again, but when he's duped and sent to a twisted version of Far Far Away—where Rumpelstiltskin is king, ogres are hunted, and he and Fiona have never met—he sets out to restore his world and reclaim his true love.
Godzilla vs. Kong
Story
event2021 star_border 7.6
top_panel_open
In a time when monsters walk the Earth, humanity’s fight for its future sets Godzilla and Kong on a collision course that will see the two most powerful forces of nature on the planet collide in a spectacular battle for the ages.
The Legend of Zorro
Story
event2005 star_border 6.1
top_panel_open
Despite trying to keep his swashbuckling to a minimum, a threat to California's pending statehood causes the adventure-loving Don Alejandro de la Vega and his wife, Elena, to take action.
Aladdin: Live from the West End
Original Film Writer
top_panel_open
A live film recording of Disney's hit Broadway musical based on their classic 1992 animated film. Filmed at the Prince Edward Theatre in London's West End.
Aladdin
Characters (86 ep.)
event1994 star_border 6.9
top_panel_open
Aladdin is an animated television series made by Walt Disney Television which aired from 1994 to 1995, based on the original 1992 feature. It was animated at the Slightly Offbeat Productions Studios in Penrose, Auckland, New Zealand. Coming on the heels of the direct-to-video sequel The Return of Jafar, the series picked up where that installment left off, with Aladdin now living in the palace, engaged to beautiful and spunky Princess Jasmine. "Al" and Jasmine went together into peril among sorcerers, monsters, thieves, and more. Monkey sidekick Abu, the animated Magic Carpet, and the fast-talking, shape-shifting Genie came along to help, as did sassy, complaining parrot Iago, formerly Jafar’s pet but now an antihero. Jafar, having previously been destroyed in the second movie, returns in only one episode which also serves as a crossover with Hercules: The Animated Series.
Turbo Dates
Editor (8 ep.)
event2008
top_panel_open
Watch as potential lovers go on a series of "Turbo Dates," where people go on surreal, absurd dates in super speed while on the search for love and companionship. We'll watch a woman on a date reveal what she actually looked like before plastic surgery in an attempt to be honest on her date, a man who is looking for a woman who will lie to him, and an alien on a date.
Zou
Background Designer (1 ep.)
event2012 star_border 6.6
top_panel_open
Zou is about the day-to-day life and adventures of a young anthropomorphic zebra, Zou (Bizou), and his family and friends. Most episodes contain Zou's name in the title and usually take place at Zou's house or in his backyard. Zou lives with his mother, father, grandparents, and great-grandmother. Each episode features some simple problem or issue that Zou must deal with, usually with the assistance of his family and friends.
Show more expand_more
keyboard_double_arrow_down