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About Me

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I'm a freelance screenwriter who writes feature films mainly aimed at Hollywood production companies.
I mostly write horror, comedy and action, though I'm not specialising in any particular genre for the time being.
Currently, I'm rewriting 2 of my scriptsand I have numerous other ideas in development.
I'm partnered with my director, Ian Serra. Together we run a new film production company in Gibraltar (that's southern tip of Spain).
We're about to launch our first film project together, which is a feature horror called "Faces In The Rock".
I wrote the script and am also associate producing the feature film.
We already have interest from some big Hollywood production companies for the horror, though I won't mention who yet as we're keeping our options open.
I am the UK MPA Executive - Motion Picture Alliance: http://www.mpalliance.org
I did my ProSeries screenwriting course with Hal Croasmun. If you're serious about professional screenwriting, then this is something you must check out: www.scriptforsale.com
There's more info on it in one of my blogs.
I was the Script Editor and Co-Executive Producer for Raging Psycho Comics. I worked on Night Warrior and you can read the entire Season 1 FREE at www.nw-comic.co.uk (see blog for update)
Part of my production duties also involve casting so if any actors or even crew on myspace wish to get in touch, please send me a message and I'll check out your profile.

My Interests

Movies, music, games, graphic design / art, pubs / clubs, drinking, spirituality, animals (MONKEYS), the weird and wonderful corners of someone's twisted imagination and a lot of other things I can't write in public :)

I'd like to meet:

On myspace - any actors, writers, comic artists, film crew or anyone with a real passion for films. Oh and anyone from around my hometown like people from the Hobgoblin :)
I also listen to a lot of music and will especially be looking for tunes for movie musical scores. I've already been adding a lot of bands to my friends list, both famous and those just breaking in.
Outside of myspace, there's so many people I'd like to meet the list would drag on. I love meeting people in the film industry, especially other writers, actors and directors.

Music:

Incubus, Muse, Limp Bizkit, Staind, Reef, Massive Attack, Eminem, Dr Dre, Guns 'n' Roses, Metallica, Skunk Anansie, Lost Prophets, Linkin Park, Foo Fighters, Korn, The Prodigy, Killers - list all sorts from metal to hip hop to club music.

Movies:

American Beauty, Being John Malkovich, High Fidelity, Matrix Trilogy, Lord Of The Rings, Silent Hill, The Cell, Hellraiser series, Nightmare On Elm Street, Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, K-Pax, Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas, Strange Days, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, Interview With A Vampire, Queen Of The Damned, Shaun Of The Dead, Minority Report, Four Rooms, Pulp Fiction, Zoolander, 8 Mile, Sin City, A History Of Violence, Batman Begins, Identity, Moulin Rouge, Usual Suspects, Sixth Sense, Spider-man movies, X-men movies, Eastern Martial Arts movies, a lot of J-Horror: The Ring Trilogy, Phone, Cursed, The Grudge, some Manga/Anime like Fist Of The North Star, Akira, Ninja Scroll, Metropolis, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle and LOTS more. Oh I love fking scary horrors, films with good twists and ones that you make think. Also films that are extremely imaginative and normally end up fking your head up :)

Television:

LOST (bastards I'm addicted!), Simpsons, Futurama, Friends, Mighty Boosh, Red Dwarf, Smallville, if I had time would get more into Sopranos (awesome) and 24 - other than that the occasional series, shows and documentaries.

Books:

Conversation With God (Books 1, 2 & 3), Saved By The Light, The Last Days Of Ancient Sunlight, Neverwhere, Breakfast With Sharks - I need to read more, most of it is on the PC like scripts or damn forums like damn myspace. I proof and write for a living so don't have much time to read and watch all my DVDs.

Heroes:

Do I have any heros? I guess the people who have inspired me in my life either directly or indirectly. The people who wrote books or made movies that inspired, enlightened me or touched my heart/soul. Also the bands who have done the same like Incubus, Muse and many others.

My Blog

Motion Picture Alliance

I am now the UK Executive for the MPA - Motion Picture Alliance http://www.mpalliance.org/ The founder and LA Executive is Christian Pichler - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1093376 We're currently lookin...
Posted by Alan on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:43:00 PST

Faces In The Rock - update

I've spent most of my time this year waiting to fly over to Gibraltar for meetings and get things moving on the film production. It's obviously taken a hell of a lot longer than first anticipated, but...
Posted by Alan on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:29:00 PST

RPC - Night Warrior

This is an announcement of my departure from Raging Psycho Comics and the comic Night Warrior. After 3 years of working on this I've decided, along with my other 2 producer, to call it quits and focus...
Posted by Alan on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:22:00 PST

Myspace moviemashup

I've seen ads on myspace for this moviemashup for quite a while, but not paid it that much attention because it sounded like it was for directors, and I'm obviously not one :) But after actually takin...
Posted by Alan on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 02:35:00 PST

www.scriptforsale.com - for screenwriters

I should have made this blog earlier, but better late than never. First of all, this blog now is for professional screenwriters, who are serious about their career and will work extremely hard to...
Posted by Alan on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:11:00 PST

Casting horror feature - Faces In The Rock (2 male roles)

Hey there, as some of you may know I'm producing a feature horror I wrote for my director in Gibraltar within the next couple of months. UPDATE: just thought I'd post a brief logline for the movie qui...
Posted by Alan on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:24:00 PST

Need inspiration? Get Notes From The Universe

Just wanted to share this lil' site quickly. http://www.tut.com/mmm.shtml Basically, every day (or you can set it to only send on certain days) you receive a message from the "Universe" in your email ...
Posted by Alan on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 06:44:00 PST