Christopher McQuarrie

Christopher McQuarrie is an American screenwriter, director and producer. A regular collaborator of director Bryan Singer, he cowrote the screenplay of Singers Public Access, wrote the screenplay for The Usual Suspects, cowrote and produced Valkyrie and cowrote Jack the Giant Slayer and Edge of Tomorrow.

McQuarrie was born in 1968 in either Princeton, New Jersey or Princeton Junction, New Jersey, a nearby unincorporated community, where he was raised. After graduating from West WindsorPlainsboro High School South in 1986, he worked as an assistant at Christ Church Grammar School in Perth, Western Australia, recalling in 2013, I was offered an Interim program. ... I picked a place out of a hat and ended up at Christ Church Grammar School. I lived at the school and worked at the boarding school, though I did very little work. Fired after nine months, I hitchhiked for three months, came home, knocked around for about a month and then immediately started working for this detective agency.... was actually a glorified securityguard position. I think in the four years I worked there I did about six investigations....

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