Film & TV

Stories for the screen

Original storyworlds by award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author J.F. Penn, available for option and adaptation. Established readerships, visually distinctive settings, and research-anchored premises. Pitch deck, treatment, and book/s available on request.

Feature: Folk horror

Blood Vintage

The perfect wine requires the darkest sacrifice.

An architect fleeing scandal takes refuge at an idyllic English vineyard and is seduced, festival by festival, into the blood cult that makes its wine, until the harvest demands she hold the knife.

FormatFolk horror feature
ToneMidsommar · The Wicker Man · Drops of God
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Feature: Adventure horror

Catacomb

How far will a father go to save his daughter?

For a thousand years, a secret cabal of Edinburgh's elite has bought the city's prosperity by feeding one young person a year to the monster in the catacomb beneath the castle. This year they chose the wrong girl: her father is Walker Kane, ex-military search and rescue, and he is coming down to get her.

FormatAdventure horror feature
ToneTaken · The Descent · Beowulf
RightsUnder a shopping agreement (2026)
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Feature: Disaster thriller

Death Valley

Above, the storm. Below, the dead.

Casey Thornton, a British adventure guide haunted by a child's death on her watch, has fled to a luxury eco-resort above Badwater Basin. When an abnormal sandstorm seals the resort off from the world, the guests' private schemes poison the water, release vipers and turn a structural failure into an inferno, and Casey must lead the billionaire's eleven-year-old daughter down into a buried Spanish mission, where the head of security is killing anyone who could expose the gold he intends to steal.

FormatDisaster thriller feature
ToneTwisters · The White Lotus · The Poseidon Adventure
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Series: Crime drama

Desecration

Based on the Dark London trilogy (Book 1: Desecration)

A detective who has lost everything. A psychic who sees too much. A secret society that believes your body belongs to them.

When an heiress is found murdered among the specimen jars of London's Hunterian Museum, a grieving detective and a reluctant psychic who reads the memory of objects uncover a secret society that believes some bodies are property. Three cases across one dark London: the body, the mind, and the skin of the city itself.

FormatCrime drama series
ToneLuther · The Alienist · Penny Dreadful
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Feature: Supernatural action

Ragnarok Rising

Based on Day of the Vikings (ARKANE Book 5)

Ancient power. Modern warfare. A final reckoning.

When modern-day Vikings launch a brutal attack on the British Museum to retrieve an ancient runic staff, a skeptical military operative and a gifted museum researcher race to prevent an apocalyptic prophecy from being unleashed in the present day.

FormatSupernatural action feature
ToneRagnarok (Netflix) · American Gods · The Old Guard
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Further titles are in preparation for the screen. Get in touch for rights discussions.