Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver are American screenwriters and film producers. They are husband and wife.
They are best known for having written and co-produced the 2011 science-fiction film Rise of the Planet of the Apes, a commercially and critically successful reboot of the Planet of the Apes franchise for which they were nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Writing, and its 2014 sequel Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
In 2013, they were announced to be the co-writers of James Cameron's Avatar 3, planned for 2018.
Silver is the sister of actor Michael B. Silver and the granddaughter of screenwriter and producer Sidney Buchman.
Filmography
Writing
- The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992, Silver only)
- Fallen Angels: episode "Murder, Obliquely" (1993, Silver only)
- Eye for an Eye (1996)
- The Relic (1997)
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
- Heart of the Sea (2015)
- Avatar 3 (2018)
Producing
- The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992, Jaffa only, executive producer)
- Love Shack (2010)
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
References
External links
- Rick Jaffa at the Internet Movie Database
- Amanda Silver at the Internet Movie Database