Film/Television Writing

These scripts were written mostly in collaboration. In addition to story ideas, my primary contribution was putting together the actual teleplays.

A Question of Time (1993)

Written by Jeffrey Morris and Lowell Prescott

This time-travel script was my story idea and teleplay. A friend of Jeff's heard that Nick Nolte was looking to make a short film here in the Twin Cities, so we tried to create a character which could take advantage of his best haggard look.

The original idea, "What if you came home and found a videotape of your own murder on your doorstep?" was substantially modified by rigorous discussion between Jeff and me. After our discussions, I took the project and wrote the teleplay. He was more than a bit shocked with the violence of this draft, and the project was ultimately abandoned, then resurrected as more of a love story, called A Matter of Time.

This script was pitched to Chris Carter directly, and it is likely that portions of the story were incorporated into the X-Files fourth season episode called Synchrony.

New Atlantis (1993)

Created by Jeffrey Morris and Lowell Prescott

This was the concept for an animated television show that was pitched to, and rejected by, anyboy who is anybody in animated TV. This includes Hanna-Barbera and Dreamworks! And I'm not sure how to take it, but it's the only property we pitched to anyone that never appeared in another form somewhere. In other words, no one even thought it was good enough to steal!

Oh well, we always liked it, and thought the merchandising possibilities were absolutely endless!