CRAZY LILA
- A tender love and betrayal thriller about an unconventional Resistance agent's work on an escape 'line' in Occupied France helping Allied servicemen evade capture by the Germans and return to Britain, using her small son as cover. When her 'line' recruiter becomes both her lover and her boy's longed-for stepfather the story takes a dramatic twist. A fictional Hitchcockian movie inspired by the true experiences of my mother
Elizabeth Furse and my half-brother
Anthony Haden-Guest.
- a major fictional thriller set in the near future, based on own original story/treatment. In a debt-ridden UK Britons from all walks of life battle with the forces of the financial markets, part of an international struggle to free the world from the yoke of debt. As civil resistance amasses, the threat of a UK default looms. If the UK defaults the world goes bust. Three ordinary British families from across the social divides are caught up in these epochal events (see
here).
THE ROARING BOY
- Patrick Maguire's true story as the youngest child of the Maguire Family, wrongly convicted as IRA bombers in 1976. A poignant, tragi-comic journey from Patrick's devastated boyhood to its adult nadir and redemption at the time of the 'war on terror' 30 years later, when Muslim rather than Irish people are in the line of the State's fire. Based on Maguire's autobiography
My Father's Watch (2008), written with
Carlo Gébler.
BLIND FLIGHT
- based on the No 1 Bestsellers
An Evil Cradling (1992) by Brian Keenan and
Some Other Rainbow (1993) by John McCarthy and Jill Morrell, whose combined sales topped 1.5 million, about the two mens’ extraordinary relationship during their 4 ½ years together as hostages of Islamicist militias in Lebanon in the 1980’s (see
Production Highlights).
STORMY WEATHER
- a colourful, touching, tragi-comic satire on Britain since the 1940's centred on the true story of a misfit father and son relationship between the gay, iconoclastic artist/film maker
Derek Jarman and his World War Two RAF hero father, a New Zealander who longed for English respectability. Based on Jarman’s life, books and work (see
Film Treatments).
IN GOLD WE TRUST
- major documentary series on gold, how and why its glittering but also dark, secretive history is being re-enacted in the present. After 40 years as an outcast the 'barbarous relic' that mankind has fought for, died for, slaved for, and built and lost empires for, gleams again as the global debt crisis unfolds.
THE SYSTEM
- an international big-budget film-noir thriller set in the worlds of high finance and green politics. A tycoon plots to trigger the collapse of the global debt mountain and save the planet from environmental destruction. Set in the early 1990's my story/treatment foreshadowed the current global banking crisis by almost 20 years.
AFTERMATH
- a film noir about a young Englishman’s quest in Ireland to find the remains of his assassinated Army father.
THE CHARMER
- a magical realist story about a country healer and his journey through the London underworld.
HELLBENT
- a fictional feature film about a gay artist, activist and film maker's journey of self-destruction and redemption following his HIV diagnosis, for director Derek Jarman.