Writing feature films is where I started off. I graduated from the NFTS, got a commission on the back of my graduation script and took it from there. I’ve written in a number of different genres – thriller, horror, period drama, and been commissioned to write screenplays for companies such as Working Title, Ecosse and Little Bird. But I’ve yet to see a feature script I’ve written go into production. Some projects have come agonizingly close, with funding falling through literally days before shooting was due to commence. But I still live in hope. Here are a few of my favourite feature projects.
The Girl in the Corn
This is one that has come close several times. It’s currently in development with Jeva Films having received development funding from Screen West Midlands and the European MEDIA fund.
Developed with director Laura Smith, The Girl in the Corn is a supernatural thriller set in the Vale of Evesham. After moving from the city to the countryside, seventeen-year-old Donna becomes haunted by the mystery of a missing girl. In attempting to piece together exactly what happened to her, she uncovers secrets that lead her on a dangerous journey to the dark heart of rural England.
The Girl in the Corn
This is one that has come close several times. It’s currently in development with Jeva Films having received development funding from Screen West Midlands and the European MEDIA fund.
Developed with director Laura Smith, The Girl in the Corn is a supernatural thriller set in the Vale of Evesham. After moving from the city to the countryside, seventeen-year-old Donna becomes haunted by the mystery of a missing girl. In attempting to piece together exactly what happened to her, she uncovers secrets that lead her on a dangerous journey to the dark heart of rural England.
Liberty and the DevilDeveloped on the Equinoxe film-makers' scheme, Liberty and the Devil is a biographical drama about John Wilkes, the firebrand MP who kick-started radical politics in eighteenth-century London. It's the story of an accidental hero – duellist, prisoner and pornographer – who transforms from libertine and opportunist to a man willing to die for his convictions
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The House of Hammer
Originally commissioned as a feature-length drama for the BBC, the House of Hammer was green-lit before going into turnaround due to budgetary restrictions. Charting the rise and fall of Hammer Films, the script playfully tells the story of the company as if it were a Hammer horror movie itself, with the business becoming a monster its creators are unable to control. An ensemble piece, the script focuses on the characters of director Terry Fisher (torn between his moral convictions and the commercial imperatives of delivering `tits and terror'), Christopher Lee (who saw the role of Dracula transform from a blessing into a curse) and MD James Carrerras and his son Michael who become locked in a conflict for the very soul of the business.
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