Patrick Burleigh is an American screenwriter playwright and essayist He is best known as a screenwriter for Eternals Peter Rabbit 2 The Runaway and AntMan and the Wasp Burleigh grew up in New York City and Los Angeles before attending Dartmouth College and Trinity College Dublin In 2015 he sold his screenplay adaptation of Nicholas Griffins book PingPong Diplomacy The Secret History Behind the Game That Changed the World to Village Roadshow Pictures