Peter Briggs

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Peter Briggs is a British born screenwriter, hired generally by Hollywood-based motion picture studios, a number of projects by whom have suffered due to "bad luck", as attributed by Harry Knowles of Ain't It Cool News.^{[citation needed]}

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 Briggs' script) in Anderson's poorly received production.

Briggs has worked on a number of other movies, including 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), and numerous other productions. Briggs' Hellboy script finally hit the screens as a blockbuster in 2004, sharing credit with director Guillermo Del Toro.

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Briggs, who is a fan of the 1986 film Highlander, was asked by the producers of the film, William Panzer and Peter Davis, to help set-up Highlander: The Series. Years later, Briggs was hired by Dimension Films to write a new draft for Highlander: The Source- the fourth sequel in the franchise. Briggs anonymously joined the message boards at the official Highlander website to help research what Highlander fans would want in another film. Under the screenname Everpresent Scribe, Briggs introduced himself only as someone with access to the script. In the following months, Briggs posted several pages of his script for the fans to read and gauge their reactions. Fan reception to both drafts of his script were very positive. However, the producers ultimately decided to move on to another screenwriter for the final project. Most of Briggs' material was taken out of the final script, and he received no story or screenwriting credit for the film. The final film, the first in the franchise to go straight to video, was extremely poorly received. Briggs still occasionally returns to the message board-where he is one of the most popular members.

[edit] External links

• Peter Briggs at the Internet Movie Database

Peter Briggs is also an english-born sculptor living in France, his websitehttp://www.peterbriggssculpture.com/ gives access to his CV and images of his work