Peter Craig

{{Infobox writer

| name = Peter Craig

| image = Peter Craig in 2021 (cropped).jpg

| caption = Craig in 2021

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1969|11|10}}

| birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

| death_date =

| death_place =

| occupation = {{Hlist|Novelist|screenwriter}}

| alma_mater = Iowa Writers' Workshop

| spouse = {{Unbulleted list|{{Marriage|Amy Scattergood|1995|2005|reason=divorced}}

{{Marriage|Cristina Esposito|2023}}}}

| children = 3

| parent = Sally Field (mother)

| relatives = {{Unbulleted list|Eli Craig (brother)
Margaret Field (grandmother)}}

}}

Peter Craig (born November 10, 1969){{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/peter_craig|title=Peter Craig|website=Rotten Tomatoes|publisher=Fandango|access-date=February 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190502070351/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/peter_craig|archive-date=May 2, 2019}} is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for co-writing the screenplays to The Town (2010), The Batman (2022), and Top Gun: Maverick (2022), earning an Academy Award nomination for the last.

Early life

Craig grew up in Southern California and Oregon. He is one of two children of Steve Craig and actress Sally Field, since divorced.{{cite web |last1=Jeffrey |first1=Joyann |title=Sally Field's 3 Sons Adore Their Supportive Mama! Meet the 'Norma Rae' Star's Children |url=https://www.closerweekly.com/posts/who-are-sally-fields-kids-meet-sons-peter-eli-and-samuel/ |website=Closer Weekly |date=5 September 2019 |access-date=28 January 2020}} Craig's brother, Eli Craig, is a film director. Peter Craig attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa and studied under authors Tobias Wolff and Marilynne Robinson.[http://secure.aintitcool.com/node/19817 AICN BOOKS! Bruce Wagner, Horror Masters, Peter Craig Interview and Nick Hornby!!]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Aintitcool.com, April 6, 2005

Career

As a novelist, Craig has written The Martini Shot,{{cite web|url=http://www.sobelweber.com/authors/peterCraig_about.html|title=About Peter Craig|website=Sobel Weber|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716101012/http://www.sobelweber.com/authors/peterCraig_about.html|archive-date=July 16, 2011}} Hot Plastic,{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A13874-2004Mar21?language=printer|title=Smoke and Grifters|newspaper=The Washington Post|first=Patrick|last=Anderson|date=March 22, 2004}}{{Dead link|date=July 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} and Blood Father.{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-may-08-bk-woods8-story.html|title=Calling upon Dad|website=Los Angeles Times|first=Paula L.|last=Woods|date=May 8, 2005}}

As a screenwriter, Craig debuted with The Town (2010), based on the novel Prince of Thieves by Chuck Hogan, co-writing it with Ben Affleck and Aaron Stockard. He then adapted the screenplays for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 and Part 2 with Danny Strong. In 2016, Craig adapted his own novel, Blood Father, into a film of the same name directed by Jean-François Richet, and then adapted the novel Horse Soldiers, Doug Stanton's nonfiction account of the war in Afghanistan, into the film 12 Strong (2018). In 2021, he wrote the sequel Bad Boys for Life, with Chris Bremner and Joe Carnahan.

In 2022, Craig co-wrote the screenplay Top Gun: Maverick with Justin Marks, Christopher McQuarrie, Ehren Kruger, and Eric Warren Singer, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. That same year he co-wrote the screenplay for The Batman with director Matt Reeves.{{cite web |title='The Batman': Trailer, Release Date, Cast, and Everything You Need to Know|url=https://collider.com/the-batman-trailer-release-date-cast-plot-robert-pattinson-matt-reeves/|author=Arbuckle, Ethan|website=Collider|date=March 1, 2022|access-date=March 4, 2022}}

Craig also co-wrote the screenplay for The Mother with Andrea Berloff and Misha Green. Directed by Niki Caro, that film is scheduled for release on Netflix on May 12, 2023.{{cite web |title=JLo Introduces Her Upcoming Thriller The Mother In Netflix Movie Preview |date=February 3, 2022 |url=http://hollywoodnorthbuzz.com/2022/02/jlo-introduces-her-upcoming-thriller-the-mother-in-netflix-movie-preview.html}} Craig has been nominated for two Writers Guild of America Awards and a Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0185976/ Peter Craig (I)]. The Internet Movie Database

Personal life

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Craig has been married three times and divorced twice: first to Amy Scattergood, the Los Angeles Times food writer, and then to Jennifer DeFrancisco. He has two daughters with Scattergood, and a son with DeFrancisco.{{cite web |title='Hunger Games' Screenwriter Peter Craig Gives Up Half His 'Mockingjay' Residuals in Divorce |url=https://theblast.com/c/peter-craig-divorce-hunger-games |website=The Blast |date=17 October 2018 |access-date=28 January 2020}} He is currently married to Cristina Esposito whom he wed in 2023, a teacher and PhD candidate.{{cite web | url=https://www.zola.com/wedding/peterandcristina2023/passcode | title=Cristina Esposito and Peter Craig's Wedding Website }}

Filmography

=Feature films=

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Year ! Title ! Notes
2010 \| The Town \|
2014 \|The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 \|
2015 \|The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 \|
2016 \| Blood Father \| Also producer
2018 \| 12 Strong \|
2020 \| Bad Boys for Life \|
2021 \| The Unforgivable \|
rowspan=2\|2022 \| The Batman \|
Top Gun: Maverick \| Story writer
2023 \| The Mother \|
2024 \| Gladiator II \| Story writer

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Year

! Title

! Notes

2010

| The Town

2014

|The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1

2015

|The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2

2016

| Blood Father