Biography
Feature film and TV writer specialising in action thrillers, and fact-inspired high-concept films. Works with Dominic Morgan.
Selected Credits:
Film: TRISTAN AND ISOLDE
TV: IMPACT EARTH
Recent Credits:
2009
THE STATE V NELSON MANDELA
Feature script for On Stilts Productions
TERMINUS
A feature film thriller set in space for Ecosse Films
THE KESSLER SYNDROME
A two-hour science fiction thriller for Darlow Smithson/Pro Sieben
ICE
2 x 90 thriller for Power Corp
2008
TAGGART
An episode in the TV cop series. SMG/ITV.
INTO HELL - action thriller movie set in Istanbul for Bold Films, LA: script commission. Producers: Ian Carrington and David Lancaster. Story revolves around a group of English soccer hooligans who travel to Istanbul for a match. The gang soon finds themselves in over their heads when they get framed for a political assassination.
LIMBO - a proposed 6 x 1 hour supernatural drama series for Projector Productions.
THE BODY - 4 X I hour drama series for Ecosse, inspired by the short story by Hanif Kureshi about a middle-aged man who has his brain transplanted into a younger man's body.
2007
IMPACT EARTH - a two-hour event drama about a comet hitting earth: for Darlow Smithson / Five
"4 stars. An impressive drama" Daily Mail, Choice.
Feature Film commissions/options/developments:
2006
THE TWELTH APOSTLE
Spec script sold to A Thousand Words, LA
2005
THE CORAL SEA
Nautical thriller for Working Title Films
2004
THUNDERBIRDS 2
Working Title Films
TRISTAN AND ISOLDE
Production re-write of the epic love story set in the Dark Ages: Scott Free Productions, Directed by Kevin Reynolds and Executive Produced by Ridley Scott
BLACK ICE
Survival thriller set in Antarctica; adapted from Matt Dickinson's novel: Cougar Films
GODS OF WAR
Epic war movie set in Roman Britain: The Film Council
FINAL FRAME
Docudrama chronicling the rise and fall of the greatest war photographer of all time: Based on Don McCullin's autobiography entitled UNREASONABLE BEHAVIOUR: Spec Script
THE MITTENWALD SYNDICATE
Post-war thriller set in Bavaria about the world's biggest gold heist: adapted from a novel by Frederick Nolan: Spec Script
2002
PLAYING FOR THE ENEMY
Inspired by a true story: Two cultures collide when a young Falkland Islander goes to Argentina to become a football star: Spec Script
THE HANGMAN'S APPRENTICE
Revenge thriller set in 1920s Britain about a hangman who is framed for murder: Selected for presentation at the European Pitchpoint Event at the Berlin Film Festival 2001: The Film Council
2001
TERRITORY
Manhunt thriller set in Northwest America: Experiments of death-row prisoners spiral dangerously out of control when one of the human guinea-pigs escapes: Spec Script
2000
BLACK BUTTERFLIES
Period medical drama: A young neurosurgeon struggling to find a cure for mental illness is himself drawn into a dangerous cycle of obsession and insanity: Manifesto Films, USA
OVERLAND
Hostage Drama: A group of Western tourists get kidnapped in Northern India. Winner of The Script Factory Competition: Leading actors and actresses performed a rehearsed reading of the screenplay to a sell-out audience at the Soho Theatre: The Producers
1996 - 99
THE SNOW QUEEN
Family Film: A feature adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy tale: Giant Films
BLOOD RITUAL
Urban thriller: A disturbing tale of corruption and intrigue set on the streets of Rio de Janeiro: Talisman Films
HOMEWARD BOUNDERS:
Science Fiction: A Stealth Bomber pilot is transported into a new dimension; adapted from Diane Wynn Jones' science fiction novel: Talisman Films
HELL'S LADDER
Action-thriller set in a South African diamond mine: Talisman Films
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