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A few so far un-produced works.
THE GRANDFATHER PARADOX
Sci-Fi dramedy.
A family struggles with its fate over several generations, all due to a paradox. Time Travel can be confusing.
SYNOPSIS
Patrick must travel back in time to save his grandfather. But once done, he is stranded in the past only to find his job is far from over. A connection develops between himself and the young woman, Nicole, who is destined to be his grandmother. His family's history is perhaps not all he has been led to believe.
And all because of an old photo, and a tennis ball.
2nd-Rounder - Drama Feature - Austin Film Festival 2022
Quarter-Finalist - ISA Emerging Screenwriters Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenplay Competition 2023
Quarter-Finalist - Creative Screenwriting screenplay Competition 2023
Storyteller
A Horror/Thriller feature screenplay
A screenwriter of horror films finds the perfect villain for his new movie, but has no idea who he has 'created' as the villain gradually takes over the story and the writer's life.
Synopsis
William DelMackie writes horror films (sorry – thrillers), but is having trouble with his latest project, until he discovers the perfect villain for his story - Victor. But Victor is not content to be a characters in someone else's story. He has other plans, which involve killing William and taking over his life so that he can continue his mission of purging the earth of the Human Species. Like William, Victor is a storyteller. But he wields his 'fictions' with a god-like power that cannot be stopped. No matter what happens, Victor will always survive, by simply inhabiting one body after another.
But with William he finds a kindred spirit, and someone who might actually understand his motives. Stories can be dangerous things. Especially when the mere telling of them makes them real.
Quarter-finalist in the PAGE international Screenwriting awards 2016.
hair trigger
A black comedy feature screenplay
Surviving the next 24-hours is the easy part.
SYNOPSIS
When Jake’s rapacious girlfriend, Nina, kills their coke dealer, it sets off a chain of events that will change his life forever .
You see, Jimmy was the son of one of the city's most powerful gangsters. But he's not the problem. Jimmy's Irish-born mother is.
One way or another, someone's going to die before the day is out.
Semi-finalist in the Roadmap Writers/Route One Entertainment Screenplay Contest 2018
Quarter-finalist in the ISA Horror & Thriller Screenplay Contest 2021
THE TIME RIPPERS
A big-budget Sci-Fi Comedy
The only way to save the future, is to fuck with the past
SYNOPSIS
Two young Cambridge University students invent a time machine that accidentally creates a rip in SpaceTime which threatens to destroy the universe. The only way to stop it is to ensure they never create the rip in the first place. So they must travel back in time to prevent themselves from ever being born. But this turns out not be quite so easy, as they have to travel further and further back in time to try change their future.
Along the way they kill Hitler, arrest Jesus, join the Persian army, go to Woodstock, and make friends with Genghis Khan and his Mongol hordes. They also enlist the aid of two girls from New York, a census taker from the Middle Ages, and a young German soldier.
But no matter how much they try to change the past, the rip keeps growing, timelines start getting jumbled, and the universe appears doomed. It’s going to take something truly extraordinary to sort this mess out.
Semi-finalist in the PAGE international Screenwriting awards 2017.
Semi-finalist in the ScreenCraft Sci-fi Screenplay Contest 2018
Semi-finalist in the Stage 32 Fantasy & Sci-Fi Screenwriting Contest 2018
Semi-finalist in the ISA Genre-Busting Action & Adventure Screenplay Contest 2022
Artwork by Max Phipps
The Limpit Odyssey
A radio series in 4 parts
Synopsis
Malcolm Limpit is an unemployed, bored out of his brain, social forget-me-not type of guy looking for something to do. When he receives an invitation to a party over his new crystal radio set he jumps at the chance. Only problem is the party is on some planet called Thesmadol 3.
How is Malcolm and his devastatingly attractive girlfriend, Brenda, going to get there? Who will they meet on the way? What adventures (or misadventures) will befall them? Will they even make it to the party without being eaten by a gigantic space whale? And if they do what will the other guests look like? And what is the message that Malcolm is supposed to deliver? And who is he supposed to deliver it to? And just why is everybody so obsessed with parties anyway? And what did the old philosopher mean when he said 'There are motives within motives, shadows within shadows'? And who is this Zog person everyone keeps talking about? And will Malcolm Limpit, who has until now led an astonishingly unimpressive existence, save the universe? And does anybody care??
Winner of the Ian Reed Radio Play prize in 1989, and purchased for production by ABC. Unfortunately it never made the airwaves due to budget cuts.