---
name: "David Z. Weinstein"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/david-z-weinstein"
fi1m_id: "david-z-weinstein"
imdb_id: "nm0918434"
tmdb_id: 53025
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:42:51.226847+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# David Z. Weinstein

## Identity

David Z. Weinstein

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/david-z-weinstein
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** david-z-weinstein
- **IMDb ID:** nm0918434
- **TMDB ID:** 53025
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0918434/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/53025

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0918434/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/53025

## Biography

David Z. Weinstein is a writer whose credits include the original screenplay for the 1986 film *Big Trouble in Little China*, written with Gary Goldman. W. D. Richter received an adaptation credit for the version that reached the screen, directed by John Carpenter.

Weinstein and Goldman had previously written episodes for the television series *Fame* and *Hart to Hart*. The Writers Guild of America awarded them the "written by" credit for the film following a dispute over the rewrite.

*Sources: imdb.com, latimes.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Big Trouble in Little China* (1986), Fi1m 78, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/big-trouble-in-little-china.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Big Trouble in Little China* (1986), Screenplay — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/big-trouble-in-little-china.md)

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