Spec scripts
Below is a collection of work that I have written on spec over the last five years (both feature and shorts). Some have done pretty well in competitions and received encouraging feedback, while others haven't been released out into the world yet - soon though, soon...
features
Societal
Fed up with the suffocation and toxicity of social media, actor, Matilda Day, deletes all her accounts, and everyone who follows her disappears in real life. With the world literally closing in around her and sinister creatures hiding in the darkness, Matilda needs to find out what is going on before she vanishes into nothingness.
August
A sentient being – August – crashes to earth in the 1980s. An ageing drunk and female detective protect her from an intergalactic tracker intent on capturing her for corporation gain. They only have a short window in which to get August powered up so she can return home.
Reconditioned
In the near future where people’s brains can be reconditioned for good, a detective must work to uncover the mysterious disappearance and subsequent cover up of an innocent woman.
The Trickster
A family and friends are terrorized by an unseen force intent on turning them against each other.
End Times
A trio of friends on a fishing weekend are hunted by a malevolent being intent on seducing them to evil. Together they must battle with their sanity to have any chance of surviving.
The Message
After 50 years of waiting for a message on a old phone, an elderly lady must fight against both heaven and hell to save the life of an innocent man being consumed by evil.
The Shepherds
Patrick, an off-world farmer is manipulated by a shadowy corporation on a beautiful planet where he sees his dead daughter. Patrick must convince colleague George to work together in a race against time to stop the Company’s greed from destroying the planet.
Shorts
Brothers
Two sentient beings disguised as 70 year old brothers meet in a hotel room after 50 years apart to discuss what they have learned from the human race.
Feed 1114
A man falls in love with a woman he's never met through a video feed from a distant planet.
The Oak Tree
A man, fearful about losing his newborn daughter, is visited by her spirit who shows him who she will become and tells him not to give up.