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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. They also co-wrote Jurassic World, the upcoming fourth installment of the Jurassic Park franchise. In 2013, they were announced to be the co-writers of James Cameron's Avatar 3, planned for 2017. Silver is the sister of actor Michael B. Silver and the granddaughter of screenwriter and producer Sidney Buchman.