Film credits
PRODUCED FILMS:
THE SONG OF NAMES
(2019) Premiering at Toronto International Film Festival , the feature adaptation of Norman Lebrecht’s prize-winning novel, The Song Of Names, for Robert Lantos of Serendipity Point Films and Nick Hirschkorn of Feel Films. Directed by Francois Girard (THE RED VIOLIN) and starring Clive Owen, Tim Roth and Jonah Hauer-King. The film’s music, a central component of the story, is by Howard Shore.
THE CONSTANT GARDENER
(2005) Feature adaptation of John le Carré novel
Produced by Simon Channing-Williams and directed by Fernando Meirelles
Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz star
Released in the US August 2005, in the UK 11 November 2005
Screenplay nominated for:
Best Adapted Screenplay for the 78th Academy Award 2006
The Orange British Academy Film Awards 2006
Finalist of 18th Annual University of Southern California Scripter Award for a film adaptation
Screenwriter of the Year by The London Critics’ Circle Film Awards
Nominated as Best Adapted Screenplay by the Writers’ Guild of America
Screened in competition at the Venice Film Festival 2005
Nominated for seven British Independent Film Awards 2005
INSIDE I’M DANCING
(2004) (U.S. Title: RORY O’SHEA WAS HERE)
Feature drama about the friendship between two disabled young men
Directed by Damien O’Donnell and produced by James Flynn for Octagon Films and Working Title. Released Autumn 2004
Winner Audience Award, Edinburgh Film Festival 2004
Winner Best Screenplay Award at Irish Film Awards 2004
Selected for Sundance January 2005
GOLDENEYE
(1995) United Artists/MGM – starring Pierce Brosnan in his first outing as James Bond
EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS
Rewrite of a screenplay based on the life of Moses; for Fox and director Ridley Scott
CURRENT WORK:
BELOVED FRIENDS – an original feature screenplay based on the courtship and married life of John Quincy Adams and Louisa Catherine Johnson between 1795 and 1801. Reminiscent of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice in theme, tone and language.
DARK GARDEN – an original animated film noir for kids set in a California garden and featuring a snail private eye.
SCREENPLAYS IN DEVELOPMENT:
THE WHITE MOUSE
Screenplay based on the wartime work of Australian SOE heroine Nancy Wake, for White Mouse Pty Ltd.
THE KINGMAKER
Commissioned by Ridley Scott/Fox: to write a screenplay based on the life of Gertrude Bell, who following World War One, achieved fame as one of the chief architects of the modern state of Iraq
GUCCI
Rewrite of a sceenplay about the Gucci family; for Scott Free
PETER PAN IN SCARLET
Commissioned by Headline Pictures and BBC Films; feature adaptation of a sequel to the J. M. Barrie classic by Geraldine McCaughrean
SILVER GHOST
Original feature. Development was taken over by Martin Scorsese after the death of Richard Attenborough.
CARBONEL
Animated feature based on Barbara Sleigh’s trilogy in development with Martin Pope and Michael Rose of Magic Light Pictures
THE PERSIAN BRIDE
Adaptation of James Buchan’s novel for New Line, Los Angeles
OTHER SCREENPLAYS:
THE MAGIC BULLET
Adaptation of a novel by Harry Stein, for New Regency Productions
HEROIC MEASURES
Feature screenplay re-write for Columbia Pictures
BUDDY
A free adaptation with a contemporary American setting of Bulgakov’s classic novella of transmutation
Romantic comedy for Touchstone
VINTAGE MUSCATEL
Original screenplay for Zenith Productions; the story of a successful businessman, now on Skid Row, who finds a passage through despair to an unexpected triumph in a New York court
In 2014 this was filmed under the title TIME OUT OF MIND, starring Richard Gere and directed by Oren Moverman.
SONJA
Feature film screenplay commissioned by Redbreast Films
An adaptation of Dr Albert Haas’ autobiographical wartime love story; an account of a husband/wife resistance team in occupied France, their arrest, imprisonment in concentration camps, and eventual reunion
REQUESTS AND REQUIRES
Original thriller screenplay about a man who attempts to rescue his son from kidnappers – British and African setting
THE HOMING
Adaptation of his own novel (see below) for Blue Horizon Productions
RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
A modern adaptation of Ibsen’s A DOLL’S HOUSE for Irwin Winkler and Columbia Pictures
CODETALKERS
Original screenplay for Astoria Productions
A fictional account, based on true events, of the lives of three Navajo Indians before, during and after World War II
