David Harold Franzoni (born March 4, 1947) is an American screenwriter and film producer. His best known screenplays include King Arthur, Gladiator (for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and won the Academy Award for Best Picture), Amistad, and Jumpin’ Jack Flash. In Gladiator he worked on the story and as a producer too. In Gladiator David Franzoni returned to the peplum, using characters very different from the original and drawing upon available historic and archaeological sources. He started to write the story in 1970s, after reading a book of the Roman's games, and convinced Steven Spielberg to direct the film. Franzoni decided not to use an archetypal script for the film and explained that "The typical slant in this sort of film is to have the poor, chained black man arrive in the presence of the white guy, who has a good soul and fights the good faith to liberate the black man". Franzoni described the screenplay of King Arthur as "aims more for history than myth", and again relied upon archaeological evidence in an attempt to create a more realistic human and political interpretation of the character.

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