Terrio wrote the screenplay for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the follow-up to Zack Snyder's Man of Steel, based on an earlier draft by David S. Goyer, and is credited as co-writer for the 2017 film Justice League, alongside Joss Whedon for the theatrical cut and Zack Snyder and Will Beall for the 2021 director's cut for Warner Bros.[3] He completed another screenplay, A Foreigner, based on an article by the journalist David Grann.
Terrio was raised in a Catholic family in Staten Island, and graduated from St. Joseph by the Sea High School.
[9] Terrio attended University of Cambridge for his MLitt,[10] but eventually decided to enroll in film school.
It stars Glenn Close, Elizabeth Banks, James Marsden and Jesse Bradford, and features Isabella Rossellini, George Segal and Rufus Wainwright in small roles.
In 2002, he directed, wrote and produced a short film titled Book of Kings, which starred Aasif Mandvi among others.
He loosely adapted the screenplay based on a Wired article by Joshuah Bearman titled "The Great Escape" and the memoir of Tony Mendez, The Master of Disguise, supplementing that material with extensive research of his own.
I settled on the idea that Mendez would throw a spitball into the conversation with a joke about giving the bicycle escapees Gatorade.
I celebrated when I found a magazine from the year before featuring a dehydrated athlete with a Village People moustache: 'Gatorade: When You're Thirsty to Win.
Terrio has completed the adaptation of Harlan Coben's novel Tell No One for Warner Bros., with Ben Affleck being attached to direct.
[18] 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.