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Rick Jaffa (born May 8, 1956) and Amanda Silver (born May 24, 1963) are an American husband-and-wife screenwriting and film production duo.
Rick Jaffa is a screenwriter and producer who co-created the Planet of the Apes reboot and Jurassic World. He was born in Texas in 1956 and married to Amanda Silver, his writing partner.
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May 10, 2024 · Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver – the writer-producer duo known for ‘Planet of the Apes,’ ‘Avatar’ and ‘Jurassic World’ – talk about being fired, rehired and inspired to...
Dec 24, 2022 · Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, the screenwriting couple behind Avatar: The Way of Water, share how they studied James Cameron's mind and Pandora-pedia to craft the sequel. They also reveal how the story expanded from three to four movies and the challenges of catching up with 14 years of events.
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Rick Jaffa is an American screenwriter who helped write Avatar: The Way of Water and Avatar 3 with his wife Amanda Silver. The couple has worked together on various films since the late 90s, most notably Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
•The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (1992, as executive producer)
•Eye for an Eye (1996)
•The Relic (1997)
•Love Shack (2010, as producer)
•Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
•Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
Rick Jaffa was a writer and producer of the 2011 movie Rise of the Planet of the Apes. From working in the mailroom of the William Morris Agency, Jaffa went on to be an executive producer and an uncredited co-writer on the very successful 1992 movie The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, having married...
Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver wrote sections of the treatments for the first four Avatar films. The stories were interchangeable between them. The first act of Way Of Water eventually expanded out into three films.
