Anthony Peckham is a South African-born American screenwriter and producer.
Peckham's first screenplay to reach production was 1990's The Assassin.
Eleven years later, in 2001, the Michael Douglas thriller Don't Say a Word, Peckham's second screenplay to reach production, premiered.
In 2009, Peckham wrote the screenplays to two high-profile releases: the Clint Eastwood-directed Nelson Mandela biopic Invictus,[1] starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon, and Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey Jr.
[2] In 2013, he was initially signed to write the screenplay for Jason Bourne, set for release in 2016 by Universal Pictures.