Peter Craig (born November 10, 1969) is an American novelist and screenwriter. Craig's first novel, The Martini Shot, published by William Morrow in 1998, chronicles has-been action film star Charlie West's troubled relationship with his two children and received a Michener-Copernicus Fellowship. His second novel, Hot Plastic, published by Hyperion in 2004, portrays the complex relationship between credit card con artist Jerry Swift and his genius son, both of whom are attracted to the same woman. His most recent novel, Blood Father, published by Hyperion in 2005, tells of aging biker John Link and his reckless teenage daughter, caught up in a drug bust gone wrong. As a screenwriter, Craig has written the Warner Bros. picture The Town (based on the novel Prince of Thieves by Chuck Hogan) with Ben Affleck and Aaron Stockard. He adapted the screenplays for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 with Danny Strong. The films were directed by Francis Lawrence. In 2016, Craig adapted his own novel Blood Father, directed by Jean-François Richet and released by Lions Gate Entertainment; and, in 2018, 12 Strong -- based on Doug Stanton's nonfiction account of the war in Afghanistan, Horse Soldiers, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. Currently, he is adapting M.A. Bennett's novel, "S.T.A.G.S." for Fox 2000 and Chernin Entertainment as well as re-imagining the 1976 film Logan's Run for Warner Bros. Top Gun: Maverick, the original screenplay for which Craig wrote alongside Justin Marks, began principal photography on May 31, 2018. Craig has been nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award and a Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

 

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