David Peoples

David Peoples
Born	David Webb Peoples 1940 (age 76–77) Middletown, Connecticut
Spouse(s)	Janet Beebe Peoples

David Webb Peoples (born c. 1940) is an Oscar, Golden Globe, and BAFTA nominated American screenwriter, with feature film writing credits that include Blade Runner (1982), Unforgiven (1992), and 12 Monkeys (1995), and whose work with Clint Eastwood on Unforgiven resulted in best screenplay awards from the L.A. Film Critics (1991) and National Society of Film Critics (1992).

Peoples was born in Middletown, Connecticut, the son of Ruth Clara (née Levinger) and Joe Webb Peoples, a geologist.

Peoples studied English at the University of California, Berkeley.

Peoples worked as a film editor in the 1970s, and started writing screenplays during this time, but his writing career began when he was hired as co-writer on the cult classic Blade Runner after director Ridley Scott and screenwriter Hampton Fancher separated over creative differences. Following that film's critical success, Peoples was hired by studios to work on films including Ladyhawke (1985) and Leviathan (1989).

With John Milius, Peoples had written a script in the 1980s to adapt the Sgt. Rock series from DC Comics, where Arnold Schwarzenegger, despite accent, was originally identified to play the title role of the G.I. hero; the project returned to publicised discussions in 2010 involving Joel SIlver and Easy Company, although with expectation to set the narrative in a place other than the battlefields of World War II (and so to make the project independent of the early script).

A number of Peoples' other original screenplays were sold during the 1980s, many undergoing lengthy studio development periods before seeing production: among them, Unforgiven, Soldier, and The Blood of Heroes. The latter film was the first to go before the cameras, directed by Peoples himself and starring Rutger Hauer.

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