Peter Briggs

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Peter Briggs is a British work-for-hire screenwriter, hired for many adaptations of existing media, a number of which have suffered due to "bad luck".

Briggs hit the screenwriting scene in 1991 (after being a film cameraman for several years) with his well-received Alien vs. Predator screenplay, sold to 20th Century Fox. The movie languished in development hell for many years, until the property was brought to the screen by Paul W. S. Anderson (who ditched Brigg's script), in a lacklustre and poorly received production.

Briggs has worked on Freddy vs. Jason, Judge Dredd, the original period version of The War of the Worlds (which Tom Cruise's production company attempted to set up, thwarted by legal reasons, in 1998), has set-up Highlander: The Series, and numerous other productions. Hellboy finally hit the screens as a blockbuster in 2004, but not until after being almost entirely rewritten by its director Guillermo del Toro.