David Peoples

David Webb Peoples (* 1940 in Middletown, Connecticut ) is an American screenwriter who was mainly known for his templates for science fiction movies.

Life and work

Peoples studied English at the University of California. He began his career as an editor. Director Ridley Scott hired him in the early 1980 as a co-author of the screenplay for Blade Runner, because Scott had creative differences with the original screenwriter Hampton Fancher. Peoples' revision of the script was well received by Fancher as well as Scott and even the author of the original novel, Philip K. Dick, consent. This is remarkable, since Peoples Dicks had not read the original and its modifications for the larger deviations of the film attended by the template.

Peoples took part in the screenplay for Ladyhawke (1985) and wrote The Jugger - Battle of the Best (1989 ), both filmed with Rutger Hauer, who had also played in Blade Runner. In battle of the best Peoples who also directed.

1992 was his most successful year in which were three of his films in the cinema: the director's cut of Blade Runner, the comedy An ordinary hero ( with Dustin Hoffman ) and the Western Unforgiven. The latter was Peoples' most successful film to date, he received an Oscar nomination, overall the movie was nominated nine times and won four Oscars. Peoples wrote the screenplay in 1976.

Together with his wife Janet Peoples in 1995 he wrote the screenplay for 12 Monkeys, and in 1998 he wrote the soldier, who plays in the same fictional universe as Blade Runner, was rewritten by Paul WS Anderson and filmed as Star Force Soldier.