"Why stop dreaming when you wake up?"
Conflict Scripts is a screenwriting community based out of the UK and USA boasting a team from all over the world working together to enhance our reputation for providing quality scripts. Our goal is to build on our community by welcoming screenwriters and any other kind of writer, old or new, who feel they have something to give to the world of film and literature but who are struggling to be heard.
Over the years we have built a solid database of industry contacts and as well as providing constructive feedback we will gladly help those who are genuine and have something special to give to film. All we ask for in return is a little respect and acknowledgment of our efforts.
If you are interested then please join our forum and become part of the CS community: FORUM
Alternatively if you'd like to speak with us direct you can contact us here: CONTACT US
Finally you can learn more about us by following this link to the main website: ABOUT CONFLICT SCRIPTS
Thanks for your interest.
STUART EVANS - FOUNDING MEMBER / HEAD OF CONFLICT SCRIPTS UK / SCREENWRITER
In 1977 an Imperial Star Destroyer dogging a Rebel Blockade Runner during the opening segment to George Lucas’ Star Wars, was all the inspiration needed to get me hooked on film. I was only four at the time, but old enough to be taken in by what was to become the future of cinema.
And for some time after I wished the films I went to see would be replaced by the 20th Century Fox fanfare followed by the opening logline rolling against the backdrop of space. If not Star Wars then Bill Conti's iconic opening score to the excellent Rocky with it's instantly recognisable horn section. Obviously this wouldn’t happen but subconsciously and with every movie I went to see I was becoming more and more infatuated by film.
During my last year at school I landed a Saturday job working in a small independent video store. Not the big corporate stores you see today, but one of those old converted newsagents with video boxes crammed on shelves occupying as much wall space as possible, a real 80's throwback.
It couldn't have come at a better time. The VHS boom was in full swing and I had scores of movies at my disposal. I began to develop a taste for films that enthralled me, the kind of films that reached into your subconscious, shaking you from the popularity of the everyday box office attraction. Movies from the late 60’s through to the late 70’s; Bonnie and Clyde, Panic In Needle Park, Dog Day Afternoon, All The President's Men, The Deer Hunter, Taxi Driver, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and The Godfather films all became overnight inspiration. I also began to develop an attitude towards what I felt films should be about and what ingredients were required to make the mediocre films better.
In early 2003 I tried my hand at screenwriting. I needed to somehow channel the ideas I had rattling around inside my mind into some form of medium and whilst it wasn't directing, my first choice given the chance, it was the only realistic avenue for me at this stage of my life.
It wasn’t until July 2003 that I began to write what would become my first completed screenplay. The concept for Conflict was born after a discussion with friend and co-writer Mark Fennell about the state of the horror genre at the time. We decided to write a horror story, which would rival the likes of 70's classics The Omen and The Exorcist. A much needed breath of fresh air, we thought, at a time when remakes and teen flicks had cornered a very unimaginative market.
From this came the idea for Conflict Scripts, which I jumped headfirst into. The thought of having a team of writers, co-existing under one umbrella, developing the kind of scripts they wanted to see materialise to both the big and small screens was aspiration enough. I then began developing our website and it's forums in an effort to become recognised as a respectable entity for producing quality scripts.
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To date Stuart has written 4 features, 2 shorts and is the creator and co-writer on the teleplay series Tales of the Damned. He currently has 1 feature under option and has recently accepted an option on his short script The Border. His other short forms part of an anthology of horror stories, which is in line to be filmed by Conflict Scripts affiliate production company Smokin Gnome Productionsâ„¢.
Stuart's other credits include Script Consultant on the new indie horror film Cruel and the latest Conflict Scripts feature script In Darkness Lies. He is currently working on a follow up series to Tales of the Damned and is revisiting the gangster genre for his first feature in over a year.
Stuart also helped launch Conflict Scripts USA with fellow writers Christine Gillam and Duane P. Craig (head of CS USA) to help deal with the growing interest in Conflict Scripts worldwide.
SCREENPLAYS by Stuart Evans:
CRYPTOLOGY:
A killer on the loose, no motive no clues. Detective Dean Stanford has been asigned to the case to find a man who leaves nothing to chance. That is until the discovery of a book, a book that holds cryptic evidence to the killer and his means of murder. Can Stanford break the code and find the killer before he kills again?
MY WAY:
Set in London's underworld this gritty drama focuses on the rise of Danny Stokes who, after the imprisonment of his father, takes over 'the firm' with the same ruthless ambition as his father. Danny then has to confront loyalty, betrayal, honor and deceit in an effort to hold onto everything and everyone around him.
STAINED GLASS:
In life there is love. In love there is passion. In passion there is redemption.
A brutal murder leaves the police with their one and only, but most unlikely suspect - the victims brother. We meet Stephen Campbell during a heated police examination, unknown to them their only lead suffers from a rare heart condition. To complicate matters the police are in a hurry. The victims wife is still missing and they think Stephen knows more than he is letting on..
As the police continue to push Stephen we begin to learn more about the Campbell family and who may be responsible for the murder..
Using Stephen's interrogation room testimony we will discover the truth as he jumps back to six months previously..
THE BORDER (SHORT):
A young couple struggle with reality when they are forced to stop at a borderline check-point. What follows is an example of the kind of tragedies, which can transpire from a hostile environment generated by war.
TALES OF THE DAMNED (TELEPLAY SERIES):
Ever do something evil and think you got away with it? Think again.
MANDRAKE travels the earth alone, his primary function to track down those who have sinned and to inconspicuously guide them to retribution. He didn't choose this path, it was chosen for him in return for revenge and now he must pay back the debt of his dark and sinister past.
EPISODE 1 - THE WRITER
A man is haunted by his dead friend after stealing his unpublished work in an effort to become rich and famous.
EPISODE 3 - A SOUL WITHIN
A dead coyote is resurrected in the form of a man to hunt down his killer.
EPISODE 12 - BLINDED BY MURDER
A psychiatrist learns the truth about his dark past from a patient he has never met before. From this conversation he has to make a decision whether or not to confront his sin.
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