Peter Craig
Peter Craig (born November 10, 1969) is an American novelist and screenwriter known for his darkly comic novels of imploding father-child relationships.
Novels
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.
Screenplays
As a screenwriter, Craig wrote 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, and the films were directed by Francis Lawrence. Craig also adapted his own novel Blood Father to be released in 2016 by Lions Gate Entertainment. Craig has also been hired to adapt Homer's Odyssey for Lions Gate Entertainment and Lynsey Addario's memoir It's What I Do for Warner Bros. and Steven Spielberg.
'Peter Craig' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
The A-List (2014)
Actors: Duncan Atwood (actor), John Beck (actor), Robert Blanche (actor), Nicholas Bluhm (actor), Evan Brown (actor), Mikel Chase (actor), Connor Daliposon (actor), Jack DePew (actor), Clay Dirkse (actor), Andrew Elott (actor), Ryan Favero (actor), Matthew Fisher (actor), Klye Gazzigli (actor), Lesley Grant (actor), Enrique Arias (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Mr. Ace (1946)
Actors: Walter Baldwin (actor), Brooks Benedict (actor), Roman Bohnen (actor), Truman Bradley (actor), Gordon B. Clarke (actor), James Conaty (actor), Jerome Cowan (actor), Lester Dorr (actor), Alan Edwards (actor), Ben Erway (actor), Joe Gray (actor), Mack Gray (actor), Ben Hall (actor), Sam Harris (actor), Stanley Andrews (actor),
Plot: Margaret Wyndham Chase wants to run for governor and approaches Eddie Ace, local political kingmaker/fringe gangster, to get his support. Ace's belief is that "beautiful women and politics do not mix" and he declines to help. She decides to play the game rough-and-tough without him, but he shows he is even rougher-and-tougher, and she gives up and withdraws from the race. But Ace has fallen in love with her at about the 45-minute mark and, with his new-found ardor for clean politics, he makes some (unclean) manipulations behind the scenes, and she is picked to run on an independent good-government ticket.
Keywords: ambition, bookie, campaign, campaign-manager, character-name-in-title, convertible, debate, election, father-figure, female-politicianGenres: Drama,
Quotes:
Margaret Wyndham Chase: You'll make a very impressive governor's husband, darling.Eddie Ace: I got a pretty good education just growing up.
Prof. Joshua L. Adams: With her brain and education, she'd probably make a good governor, if she used her heart, too.
Eddie Ace: Charlie's been at City Hall for the past 30 years.::Margaret Wyndham Chase: Really?::Eddie Ace: And Nick doesn't work either.
Prof. Joshua L. Adams: Politics is a sacred trust, not to be worn in one's hat like an adornment - nor in one's hip pocket as a blackjack!
Pencil: When a gal from the top drawer invites a guy from the bottom drawer, she ain't lookin' to break even.
Eddie Ace: Beautiful women don't belong in politics.::Margaret Wyndham Chase: Where do they belong?::Eddie Ace: Where do you think?
Eddie Ace: You'll try anything, won't you? Front door, back door, upstairs window if you can't get in any other way.
Pembroke Chase III: I've come to offer you a bribe.::Eddie Ace: That'll be my first this morning.
Eddie Ace: Yeah, I'm figurin' on a payoff.::Prof. Joshua L. Adams: Well, what is it?::Eddie Ace: A good long rest and a chance to go to heaven.
Craig, Peter Filmography
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2015, role: writer
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2015, role: writer
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2014, role: writer
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2010, role: writer
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2010, role: writer
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1988, role: miscellaneous crew
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1988, role: actor , character name: Mig
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1978, role: actor , character name: Pete
Craig, Peter Filmography
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1969, role: actor , character name: Sheriff Tom Sluck
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1961, role: actor , character name: Jimmy Fuller
Craig, Peter Filmography
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1987, role: actor , character name: Attractive Man
Famous quotes by Peter Craig:
Bitter Creek
Once I was young and so unsure
I'd try any ill to find the cure
An old man told me
Tryin' to scold me
"Oh, son, don't wade to deep in Bitter Creek,"
(Bitter Creek)
Out where the desert meets the sky
Is where I go when I wanna hide
Oh, peyote (oh,peyote,mm)
She tried to show me
(tried to show me)
You know there ain't no cause to weep
at Bitter Creek
(Bitter Creek)
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
We're gonna hit the road for one last time
We can walk right in and steal 'em blind
All that money (All that money,ooh..)
No more runnin' (No more runnin')
I can't wait to see the old man's face
When I win the race
(Bitter Creek)
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo,
Doo doo doo doo doo