FILM - TV - THEATRE
"The Widow is a great ghost story, with an old fashioned ambiance. Providing it is well made, internationally it will do well as it has all the right ingredients to make it commercially viable - sex, violence, ghosts, and beautiful women." Part of a script review by an international Sales Agent.
The screen rights to ‘The Widow’ have been sold to Ard Films; the stage rights were withheld and the play is available for production.
"Read ‘The Widow’ (play) over the weekend and loved it. Wish I hadn't read it quite so late at night, partly because I couldn't put it down and partly because of the nature of it. Liked the twist at the end and love the fact you don't know the..." NHA, Literary Agency
Conceived story and co-wrote ‘Famous Emery’, an episode for the major children’s animation series, Chuggington, currently airing on BBC’s CBeebies.
Thanks to my work on 'Chuggington', I was commissioned to write the pilot script for a new series, created by Helga Hopkins, called: Captain Blownaparte.
Sophia Myles, Sophie Ward and Celia Imrie played the leads in my first film, ‘Out of Bounds’; a feature I wrote, directed and co-produced which BBC1 has screened three times and has also sold well around the world including to ZDF the German broadcaster.
'The eerie setting of an empty girls' boarding school generates the chills in Merlin Ward's low budget but high concept British psychodrama.'
**** 'very good' Daily Mail
'Clever scripting and some rather fine twists.' THE_ZONE
'Intriguing and chilling' TV TIMES
**** 'very good' The Sun
**** 'very good' Daily Mirror
*** 'very good' Evenng Standard
'Sophia Myles delivers a strong performance as an 18-year-old boarding school pupil in an affair with the art teacher husband of her headmistress. A brooding psychological thriller, this makes good use of its limited budget and stages more than a few effective shocks.' What's on TV
Trailer for 'Out of Bounds'
In 2005, I co-created the supernatural thriller, 'Within', starring Amy Perfect, Derek Hamilton, Fiona Glascott, Boyan Vukelic and John Tench.
COMMISSIONED SCREENPLAYS: (currently unproduced)
NO REST FOR THE DEAD: Commissioned by Hollywood producer, James B. Harris to adapt a noirish thriller set in the L.A.P.D. to London’s Metropolitan Police Force.
THE SECRET MISSION: A one-hour TV film, commissioned by Working Title, adapted from ‘The Bored Bridegroom’ by Dame Barbara Cartland.
BLIND SHOT: Screenplay commissioned by “stalk & slash” producer, Peter Walker, adapted from a novel by James Hadley Chase.
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAYS: (available)
RISING TIDE: A man is washed up by the tide and rescued by a lonely widow. They become lovers but she is burdened with a terrible secret. Forced to confront a fearsome enemy she makes the ultimate choice between life and death.
Formerly under option to Alki David.
SHIFTING SANDS: A news cameraman on assignment outside a courthouse in New York City observes at close hand the assassination of a key prosecution witness. Hurled into a nightmare world of international politics and bullet diplomacy he is caught between the hidden agenda of a CIA operative and an assassin out for revenge.
Co-written with Patricia O’Connor.
BROADWAY BELLE: In the 1890s, a beautiful young woman becomes the toast of New York City by appearing in popular musical comedies. Three men: a New York banker, a Spanish horse breeder, and the woman's Russian tutor all fight to control her life. Based on true events, 'Broadway Belle' is a powerful story of how all-consuming desire can burn too fiercely.
Co-written with Patricia O’Connor and originally optioned by Morgan O'Sullivan of World 2000, based at Ardmore Studios in Ireland.
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