SCREENPLAYS
THE HAPPY ENDING PROJECT: Low-budget romantic-drama. A young Englishman with only a few days before a potentially fatal heart transplant operation, has come to Vancouver to hunt for the woman featured in a science-fiction book cover. The woman he has completely fall in love with.
GLADLY: A lonely and struggling writer living in London, has his life changed forever when he opens his front door one morning to find a strange-looking woman standing there, claiming to be from the future. Before he can call somebody for help, he is shocked to find out she has the same name as the lead character in a series of sci-fi novels he has yet to write...
BORN AGAIN: Low-budget drama set in Ireland. A middle-aged, frustrated Irish dance teacher, spends his days in a dilapidated dance studio, believing he could have been so much more. When a beautiful Russian woman and her son walk into his studio one day, requesting lessons, he will quickly come to understand that happiness can come in many forms and in many ways.
INGRID'S BEACH: A romantic-drama set in Galway City, Ireland. (The option of this was sold to an Irish production company, but fell through due to the IFB failing to fund due to the recession. The option has now been returned to me.) It tells the story of a lonely man in Galway, Ireland, who one day finds a beautiful Romanian woman crying on the beach. The encounter will give him new life, and new hope for a happiness he thought beyond him...
...Until the day he comes home to find his front door smashed in. Love gives strength beyond measure though, and the young man will stop at nothing to find his beloved.
CELIA JORDAN: A deliberately old-fashioned, romantic-dramatic-thriller. An austere young RAF secretary is so traumatised by the death of her beloved fiancee, she agrees to become a hitwoman for the British government. Thirty years on, she is still doing it. A bitter and troubled woman in her fifties, she accepts the future is hopeless....until one day she passes her fiancee in the lobby of a hotel...
TERRITORIALITY: A fantasy-drama. (My shot at the perfect monster movie.) Based upon the story which features in my collection; UNINVITED GUESTS. When scientists try to play God by using technology to artificially attract fish stocks to a beleaguered Cornish fishing village, a monstrous force from the ocean is attracted along with them.
AMATEUR DRAMATIC: A romantic comedy-drama about a disillusioned mechanic's life being transformed when he is pulled into the world of amateur theatre.
THE MAN IN THE PAINTING: A low-budget romantic fantasy-drama. Based upon my novella of the same name. A female lawyer and her young son flee from her violent former husband to a cottage in the English countryside. Trouble follows them, but the discovery of a strange painting of a medieval knight within a secret room will change everything.
GODDEROCK: An old-fashioned, atmospheric John Carpenter-esque thriller regarding an ancient evil unleashed upon an isolated community, based upon my novel of the same name. A domestically-abused woman finds a strange book beneath her shop's floorboards.
THE SUPER SATURDAY SHOWTIME SPECTACULAR!: An ensemble comedy set largely around a single TV studio.
BORN AGAIN: Low-budget drama set in Ireland. A middle-aged, frustrated Irish dance teacher, spends his days in a dilapidated dance studio, believing he could have been so much more. When a beautiful Russian woman and her son walk into his studio one day, requesting lessons, he will quickly come to understand that happiness can come in many forms and in many ways.
INGRID'S BEACH: A romantic-drama set in Galway City, Ireland. (The option of this was sold to an Irish production company, but fell through due to the IFB failing to fund due to the recession. The option has now been returned to me.) It tells the story of a lonely man in Galway, Ireland, who one day finds a beautiful Romanian woman crying on the beach. The encounter will give him new life, and new hope for a happiness he thought beyond him...
...Until the day he comes home to find his front door smashed in. Love gives strength beyond measure though, and the young man will stop at nothing to find his beloved.
CELIA JORDAN: A deliberately old-fashioned, romantic-dramatic-thriller. An austere young RAF secretary is so traumatised by the death of her beloved fiancee, she agrees to become a hitwoman for the British government. Thirty years on, she is still doing it. A bitter and troubled woman in her fifties, she accepts the future is hopeless....until one day she passes her fiancee in the lobby of a hotel...
TERRITORIALITY: A fantasy-drama. (My shot at the perfect monster movie.) Based upon the story which features in my collection; UNINVITED GUESTS. When scientists try to play God by using technology to artificially attract fish stocks to a beleaguered Cornish fishing village, a monstrous force from the ocean is attracted along with them.
AMATEUR DRAMATIC: A romantic comedy-drama about a disillusioned mechanic's life being transformed when he is pulled into the world of amateur theatre.
THE MAN IN THE PAINTING: A low-budget romantic fantasy-drama. Based upon my novella of the same name. A female lawyer and her young son flee from her violent former husband to a cottage in the English countryside. Trouble follows them, but the discovery of a strange painting of a medieval knight within a secret room will change everything.
GODDEROCK: An old-fashioned, atmospheric John Carpenter-esque thriller regarding an ancient evil unleashed upon an isolated community, based upon my novel of the same name. A domestically-abused woman finds a strange book beneath her shop's floorboards.
THE SUPER SATURDAY SHOWTIME SPECTACULAR!: An ensemble comedy set largely around a single TV studio.
RUFUS: A short animated film about a spectral dog that comes to the aid of a frightened young footballer in his hour of need.
COLD TO THE TOUCH: My adaptation of five of M.R. James most famous ghost stories.
COLD TO THE TOUCH: My adaptation of five of M.R. James most famous ghost stories.
The stage play version of this script had a brief run in the Palace Theatre, Southend, London in November 2011 under the name AN UNSETTLING EVENING.
TV PILOTS
FRIENDLY DEMON: A fantasy comedy-drama series set in Sheffield.
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