Director

Derek Connolly

Writing

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Directed movies: 0Directed series: 0All crew credits: 12

TMDB ID: 1020013

IMDb ID: nm2081046

Known for: Writing

Place of birth: Miami, Florida, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2005 - 2027

Years active: 23

Average TMDB rating: 6.57

Wikidata: Q5261887

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Biography

Derek Connolly (born c. 1976) is an American screenwriter and film producer. He is best known for his collaborations with filmmaker Colin Trevorrow. He has written the films Safety Not Guaranteed (2012), Jurassic World (2015) and its sequels Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) and Jurassic World Dominion (2022), Kong: Skull Island (2017) and Detective Pikachu (2019). He also co-wrote the unproduced original draft of Star Wars: Duel of the Fates, which became Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019). Description above from the Wikipedia article Derek Connolly, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.