Talent Guide

Peter W. Singer

  • Discipline:Producer
  • Program Year:Fast Track 2012

Bio

Peter W. Singer is considered one of the world’s leading experts on modern war. He is the author of three award-winning nonfiction books, including the New York Times bestseller, Wired for War, the first book to cover the issues of robotics in war. In addition to working with the US military and FBI on these issues, Singer has consulted for a variety of fictional projects, including with Universal, Warner Brothers, NBC, HBO, and the Activision video game series Call of Duty. He has been named by CNN to their New Guard List of the Next Generation of Newsmakers; by the Smithsonian Institution-National Portrait Gallery as one of the 100 leading innovators in the nation to 26 People to Save the World by Turner Broadcasting; and to Foreign Policy Magazine’s Top 100 Global Thinkers, a list of the people whose ideas most influenced the world. www.pwsinger.com

Current Project

Unmanned

Logline

A young Air Force drone operator struggles to balance the stresses of going to war for the first time with the challenges of being a good father and husband, as he commutes each day between suburban family life and the war he fights by remote control.