Current projects in various stages of development:

Planet Of The Vampires – Feature

Genre: Sci-Fi/Horror

Set in the near future when a global plague has killed the majority of people on the planet. Vampires, who until then had been a tiny minority, are suddenly the dominant species. There is a food shortage and humans are soon being rounded up and harvested by warring vampire gangs. A young scientist finds himself pushed to the fore as a leader to start a human rebellion.

Tagline – When humans come second in the food chain, meat fights back.

Development stage: First draft script, concept drawings and storyboards, all available on web-site: www.movies.uk.com/planetofthevampires
Budget - £10 mill

INTERGALACTIC COMBAT – Feature

Genre: Sci-Fi/Martial Arts Action movie

First UK Martial Arts / Sci-fi Feature Film - starring Matrix sequel stars the Rayment brothers - A combat movie with a Sci-Fi premise set in the near future in which contestants are in competition to earn a place in the national team, which will then go on to represent the UK in the World Championships and finally in the Galactic Combat Games.

See website for further info : www.movies.uk.com

Tagline – New Wave UK Martial Arts Feature Film - (featuring Matrix sequel stars the Rayment brothers).

Development stage: Post-production very near completion - see website for trailer and clips

ANNA’S LOVERS

Genre: Arthouse.
Almodova does ‘Closer’, ‘L’Appartement’, ‘Sex and Lucia’

Pitch: A complex relationship movie, the kind that is made in Spain or France but very seldom in Britain.

Outline -
Tired of a lover that can’t commit Anna decides to speed date the eleven men that are interested in her, to play them off against one another until she can whittle them down to her perfect partner. A film director meets her and is inexplicably drawn into the competition. The more he sees her the more he knows they are made for each other. When down to the last two, a perfect evening leads to a night of wonderful passion. Sure he has triumphed he lets her go to meet his adversary, believing that it is just to say goodbye, but she walks out of his life. Three years later he reads a review of a film and recognises it to be a dramatisation of the above events, written by and starring Anna. Door stepping her at a preview of the film she is attending, he demands a chance to meet her so she agrees to meet him at their old meeting place the next day. When he arrives he is met by Maria, a past love. An incredible twisting tale of two women enacting a peculiarly feminine revenge on a self-obsessed male.

Development stage: Treatment
Budget – TBA

LOVE LIFE – Feature

Genre: Romantic Comedy

‘Alfie’, ‘Swingers’

Scott is in arrested development. Part of him would like to grow up but he’s having just to much of a good time with his buddies, going out every night, getting drunk and getting laid. When he falls for one of his ‘conquests’ and she becomes pregnant, he must re-evaluate his life and finally grow up. Failing miserably he loses her and only years later does he discover that she kept the child and he has a son. Realising that his life is empty without her, he resolves to win her back and prove he can be a father to his child.

Development stage: Completed award-winning 35mm feature

REAPER – Feature set in rural Ireland

Alternative title ‘St Patrick’s Day’

Genre: Action/Thriller

Tagline: Die Hard down on the Farm.

Half Irish, half black US president flies to Ireland to discover his roots. The secretly racist head of his security team sees an opportunity and informs an international terrorist organisation of the president’s low key visit and itinerary, who then plan to assassinate him. A stoic local farmer is left to save the day.

Development stage: Synopsis & Treatment
Budget - TBD

NORTHERN STORY (aka “BANG TO RIGHTS”) – Feature with break-out potential

Genre: Action Drama

A gritty story of revenge and murder. Get Carter /Straw Dogs/High Noon.

A gangster is getting out of prison, he is met by his gang and together they make their way back to their home town to take revenge on the policeman who put them away. James, that policeman, has made enemies for always playing strictly by the book and refusing stubbornly to turn his back on even the slightest corruption. As the fearful community desert him one by one, even his best friend believes he is stupid for standing his ground, but he is determined to face whatever comes. Back at his home, his wife Karen has to somehow deal with half of the vicious gang alone. No guns or knives, just sticks and everyday brutal reality.

Development stage: Script at first draft
Budget - TBD

MARCEAU – Feature

Genre- Supernatural/Mystery

Two boyhood friends keep in contact via an early form of the internet when their families move apart. Over time a game they played as children evolves, becoming all consuming. Reaching adolescence, one decides to visit the other for the first time in years only to find out from his distraught mother that his friend had died years earlier. But how is there another message waiting for him when he returns home? He realises the only way to unravel the mystery is to use the game they have come to call ‘Marceau’ and hunt down a ghost.

Development stage: Synopsis and Treatment available
Budget - TBD

THE WORLD OF HELL – Feature

Genre: Sci-Fiction/Action

Hell is the ultimate nightmare sci-fi adventure epic. Set in a Cameronesque futuristic nightmare world where combatants from earth’s history and future are drawn to fight to the death, a woman unexpectedly forms alliances that beat the system. With a game structured intelligent script for maximum multi-format merchandising potential, incorporating fantasy, mythology, strong characterisations and dynamic innovative camera work to create a unique world that is phantasmagorical and beautiful, yet deadly in every part.

Development stage: Pitch & Treatment and concept drawings / Outline / Indigenous lifeforms and hazards / Combatants, powers & skills
Budget – UK 12 mill +

THE DEAD ENDS – Comedy Feature as pilot for a potential returnable TV series

Genre: Family Comedy

The Ends are a normal family living in suburbia until one morning they ‘awake’ to discover that the whole family has died during the night due to a gas leak. They soon find that they are not the only dead people in the neighbourhood and when a recently dead relative pays them a visit the Ends discover an incredible secret world.

Development stage: Synopsis
Budget – TBD

ARV – TV Drama pilot for a returnable TV series

Time slot: 9pm or later.

ARV (Armed Response Vehicle) is a feature length pilot for a TV series about an armed response team working in London. They are called out to various incidents where guns or weaponry are thought to be involved.

Police drug busts, hostage situations, terrorist incidents, domestic incidents that have got very out of hand, gangland shootings and hits, assassination attempts and guard details, witness protection before testifying on big cases, providing back up and support to custom and excise raids.

Shame, Guilt, Revenge, Hate, Love – The five main human emotions

Development stage: Synopsis only.
Budget – TBA

ADRENALINE – Action feature script

Genre: Action thriller

Set in the near future a gangland war breaks out when a new and powerful drug arrives on the market. Alex, a DJ gets dragged into the following mayhem as the city's club-land and drug barons fight it out for supremacy. When his girlfriend is taken hostage by Khan, a psychotic gangster mastermind, Alex is forced to call in a few old ex-forces friends from a life that he had hoped to have left behind forever.

Development stage - Script at first draft and available to option.
Budget – TBA

EPIPHANY

Genre: Art house with possible breakout potential.

Synopsis –
Mary has been a nun all her adult life. Instructed to take a part time job in the local village library she gradually realises that actual world events contradict her fundamental religious beliefs. Voicing her concerns at the convent, she is cautioned, finding the Catholic Church to be the antithesis of the humane organisation she believed it to be, she confronts her superiors repeatedly and is eventually expelled from the nunnery.
At a half-way house she is forced to seek and take full time employment, as a secretary/receptionist for a film distribution firm that is in fact a porn production company. Failing to find a platform to voice her criticisms of the church, realising that she will be only ridiculed as a nun having a crisis of faith or more likely suffering a break down, Mary prays to God for guidance. She is told in a vision that by giving up her virginity in a porn film, she will find the ears of the world press and thereby a platform to speak of reform. Her boss sees and takes advantage of a chance to make a fortune in sales on the back of a press frenzy. But before the film is realised he is approached by a representative of the church, paid off and the film is buried.
On his death bed twenty years later the producer places the film on the net and when the press finally track Mary down working for a global charity organisation she is now perfectly placed and ready to finally voice her criticisms, the renouncement of: wealth within the church; exploitation of the uneducated in third world countries; the denial of contraception to the Third World thereby furthering the spread of STDs; the sexual abuse of minors by the clergy, etc.

See website for further info : www.movies.uk.com/epiphany
Development stage: Script available on request.
Budget – £4.5M

HEEBIE JEEBIES

Genre: Horror

Based on a historically true event we open in America two hundred years ago when a Shaman of a tribe of cannibal’s is cursed by the wife of his victim for brutally murdering and devouring him before her seemingly helpless eyes. Cursed to live forever whilst his body decomposes, shunned and feared by his tribe, and tired of life he weighs himself down to try and drown himself in Lake Michigan. He awakes after hundreds of years to begin a terrifying series of murders in which he takes and replaces several of his organs or limbs, damaged by age and decomposition. A detective is hot on his trail, following a bizarre trial of seemingly related ritual murders, soon he realises that he is not hunting a normal man, in fact he is the one being hunted.

Development stage: Treatment
Budget – TBD

EGGRESSION

Genre: Drama

Four friends all trying to escape from an aspect of themselves through sex, drugs, alcohol or violence try to deal with the death of the fifth friend who introduced them all to one another.

Development stage: Completed Novel
Budget - TBD

THE ARBITRATOR

Genre: Horror/Period Drama

‘Moby Dick’, ‘Dracula’

A young man leaves home to make his fortune and career on the sea but has the misfortune to sign up for a journey on a cursed ship on which an internecine war between humans and vampire-like creatures begins. Not seen as a threat the boy is forced to arbitrate between the forces of mankind, who are slowly becoming more animalistic, and the strange but noble creatures that are slowly consuming them.

Development stage: Treatment
Budget – UK 12 mill +

FAITH– Feature

Genre: Horror/Mystery

‘The Whicker Man’ meets “Night of the Demon”/”Invasion of the Body Snatchers”

A small island is being slowly taken over by a cult of demon worshipers. The local priest and a crusading journalist (Mulder / Scully relationship) try to explain a series of bizarre deaths, slowly realising what they are really up against they try to rally the remaining Christian members of the community only to find generations of preparation are reaching a climax. Real magic, mind control and the re-birth of an ancient pagan deity lead to an action-packed climax as the forces of good and evil battle it out for survival.

Development stage: Synopsis & Script
Budget UK: TBD

EYES FOR YOU

Genre: Psychological/Romance mystery

‘Memento’ meets ‘A Short Film About Loving’

A cameraman becomes obsessed with the lead actress of the film he is working on. He follows and films her through her bedroom window and on the streets where strangely she cannot see him but others unconnected with her can. When the cameraman watches some footage of her it is different from how we first saw it and we start to question the truth of his film and maybe his sanity. Simultaneously she is starting to sense someone watching her as she recovers from the trauma of the death of her husband. Interspersed with this are scenes from their relationship together. Is he the ghost of her dead husband refusing to let go or the echoe of a future relationship yet to happen?

Development stage: Script at first stage and available to option
Budget – TBD

3RD WAVE – Action feature

Genre: Action thriller

Andrew Mitchell, an FBI hacking expert, is dragged by an old college friend into a deadly game of cat and mouse where he must use all his skills to survive. He must find the signature of a Trojan virus which wields immense power to prevent it being used by any number of terrorist organisations all of which want him dead. This country-hopping thriller is a unique glimpse into the high-tech world of international computer espionage.

Development stage - Scripted and available to option.
Budget – TBA

THE LAST AND THE FIRST – Feature

Genre: Period drama

‘The Last and First’ is an intimate portrait of an epic life. Using the early childhood years and the final few months of Leo Tolstoy’s life we find a complicated, driven man and see the possible reasons behind many of his works' major ideas. A character-driven piece fuelled by the themes of religion, patriotism and fame.

Development stage - Treatment
Budget – TBA

CHANGELING – Feature

Genre: Horror

A young couple begin to quarrel and drift apart from each other after the birth of their first child. At first they put it down to post-natal depression or the stress of bringing up a child in a modern urban environment. Then as the baby grows, sinister events begin to occur and they start to question if the child is theirs at all or even human.

Development stage - Synopsis / Treatment
Budget – TBA

THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY  – Feature

Genre: Merchant Ivory meets David Lynch

A feature length screen adaptation by Ray Brady of the literary novel by G.K.Chesterton

First published as a novel by Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, 1908 (first English publication by Arrowsmith, Bristol, 1908).

Set in the early part of the twentieth century The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare described in a sometimes hilarious but often chilling way the activities of anarchists dedicated to the destruction of the world order. From its early phantasmagorical setting the film takes the viewer through fantastic, surreal and thrilling adventures to a bizarre climax. And as in all nightmares there comes a terrible moment when the dreamer must awake….

Development stage - Outline
Budget – TBA

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