Jason Trost
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Jason Wayne Trost November 15, 1986 Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Occupation | Director, actor, producer, screenwriter, special effects artist |
| Years active | 1996-present |
| Relatives | Brandon Trost (brother) |
Jason Wayne Trost (born November 15, 1986) is an American director, actor, producer, special effects artist, and screenwriter. He has starred in all of the films that he has written and directed. He is best known for his work on the films The FP and Vs.
Jason Trost either wears an eyepatch on his right eye or has his right eye covered in all of his movies and public appearances. He has stated that this is done out of necessity because he is blind in his right eye.
Jason Trost first attained a cult following in 2011 with the film The FP, a movie which centers around a group of gangs that settle disputes by playing a video game called "Beat-Beat Revelation" (a very similar game to Dance Dance Revolution). Trost first got the idea for The FP when he was 16 years old, and he lived in Frazier Park, California (which the film is named after). Trost and his high-school friends used to play Dance Dance Revolution and Def Jam Vendetta, and came up with a concept for a setting in which urban gang members battled over turf and pride through arcade dance games. The film also is a sort of defiance piece, since Trost has claimed that the film's title was intentionally made to mock The OC. Trost starred in the film as the main protagonist, JTro.
Since the release of The FP, Trost went on to release the film Vs ("versus", abbreviated) in 2011. During post-production, Vs went through a name change and was released with the title All Superheroes Must Die (often seen as ASMD) in order to make the movie more marketable. In contrast to The FP, ASMD is a more serious action thriller which focuses on four superheroes who have been stripped of their powers by an evil supervillain. The heroes then have to race against the clock while playing sadistic games in order save a small town from being destroyed. Trost described the film as being a mixture of Saw and The Running Man. Trost starred in the film as the superhero, Charge.
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