Biography
David Scarpa is an American screenwriter. He is best known for writing the screenplays to The Last Castle, the 2008 remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still and All the Money in the World, about the John Paul Getty III kidnapping, which was released in December 2017.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Gladiator II
2024
Story, Screenplay
Years after witnessing the death of the revered hero Maximus at the hands of his uncle, Lucius is forced to enter the Colosseum after his home is conq...
Napoleon
2023
Writer
An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his add...
All the Money in the World
2017
Writer
The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather...
Hollywood between Paranoia and Sci-Fi: The Power of Myth
2011
as Self
Gives insight into the creators mindset and how they culled from real life events to create some of the biggest sci-fi films of all time.
The Day the Earth Stood Still
2008
Screenplay
A representative of an alien race that went through drastic evolution to survive its own climate change, Klaatu comes to Earth to assess whether human...
The Last Castle
2001
Screenplay
A court-martialed general rallies together 1200 inmates to rise against the system that put him away.