Niall Johnson
Writer & Director
PRODUCED CREDITS as WRITER and/or DIRECTOR
ANOTHER DAY OF LIFE (2018)
Co-Writer
Adult animated adaptation of Ryszard Kapuscinski’s memoirs of his time as a reporter during the notorious
1970s Angolan War.
Directed by Raul De La Fuente and Damian Nenow.
Producers: Platige Image Films (Poland), and Kanaki Film (Spain)
World Premiere Cannes Film Festival Official Selection Out Of Competition, May 2018
THE STOLEN (2017)
Co-Writer & Director
Western set in 1850s New Zealand Gold Rush, starring Alice Eve, Jack Davenport, Graham McTavish and
Richard O’Brien.
Producers: Emily Corcoran (Cork Films), Michael Geidel, and Julia Palau.
MUM’S LIST (2016)
Writer & Director
Adaptation of the best-selling memoir by St John Greene. Weepie love story starring Rafe Spall, Emilia Fox
and Elaine Cassidy.
Producers: Nick Hamson & Chris Wood (Studio Soho Films) and Gareth Jones.
THE FIGHT ROOM (2014)
Director
Web series pilot episode. Futuristic action web series written by Emily Corcoran and Gillian McGregor.
Producers: Cork Films
KEEPING MUM (2005)
Co-Writer & Director
British black comedy starring Rowan Atkinson, Maggie Smith, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Patrick Swayze.
Written with Pulitzer Prize-Winning novelist Richard Russo.
Producers Julia Palau and Summit Entertainment
WHITE NOISE (2005)
Writer
Supernatural thriller starring Michael Keaton and Debra Kara Unger. Directed by Geoff Sax.
Producers Paul Brooks, Gold Circle Films and Universal Studios
THE GHOST OF GREVILLE LODGE (1999)
Writer & Director
Family-orientated haunted house tale starring George Cole and Prunella Scales.
Based on the novel ‘Down Came A Blackbird’ by Nicholas Wilde.
Producers: Renown Pictures, Magic Box Motion Pictures.
THE BIG SWAP (1996)
Writer, Producer & Director
Wife-swapping Comedy-Drama.
Producers: Moonlit Pictures, Mayfair Entertainment, Film Four Distribution.
DAWN (1991)
Writer, Producer & Director
Vampire romantic thriller.
Producer: Shooting Gallery Productions.
IN DEVELOPMENT
SONS OF NEPTUNE
Writer-Director
British Comedy based on a true story set in Scarborough (NE Coast of England) in the 1980s: small-town
businessman taking on the might of the polluting Water Authorities.
Producers: Eclipse Films (John Sachs, Andrew Berg, Kimberley Sachs)
HUMANOID
Director
Intense Sci-Fi Thriller. Rewrite based on a screenplay by Matt O’Reilly.
Producers: Ivan Mactaggart (Cambridge Picture Company)
KEEP ME POSTED
Writer-Director
Rom-Com set in San Francisco about a couple of strangers who flat share, based on a screenplay by Sunjae Sharmah.
Producers: Zach Tann (Authentic Films) and Jennifer Davisson (Appian Way)
THE BORDER GUIDE
Co-Writer & Director
Coming-of-age adventure story set in a snowy Nazi-occupied Norway in the Second World War.
Written with Eirik Knutsvik and Terry Ray Hall.
Producers: Frank Galline, Terry Ray Hall (Film Ink) and Gareth Jones.
THE BOGGART
Director
Supernatural horror drama about a father's descent into haunted madness, written by Jake and Theo Rowlands
Producers: Haydn Pryce-Jenkins (Boxfly Media Films, UK) and Sharyn Steele (US)
SELECTED WRITING COMMISSIONS
BEASTS
Sci-Fi Horror Thriller based on the novella SOMEONE LIKE ME by Tom Holt.
Producer: Simon Brooks, Canyon Creek Pictures
SIDEKICKED
Rom-Com about a struggling writer who is horrified to realise where, in life, she fits: as the sidekick to
other people’s more interesting lives.
Producer: James De Masi (London Street Films).
EMPTY WORLD
Adaptation of Christopher Wood’s 1977 dystopian future Young Adult novel.
Producer: Simon Brooks, Canyon Creek Films
FORWARD PASS
Screwball Rom-Com about a man who dresses up as a woman to play women’s rugby (based on an original
screenplay by Martyn Chalk & Simon Porritt).
Producer: Francie Von Schonfeld, Damaged Cat Productions
STIFF
British comedy set in the world of rivaling funeral. Based on the book SIX FEET UNDER (no relation!)
by Howard Hodgson.
Producers: Bedlam Productions and Utopia Media
THE CALLED
Horror thriller about fallen angels. A reboot of a spec script of Niall’s from the early 1990s.
Producer: Tim Dennison, Tall Man Films.
CHINA BLACK CHAMBER
Adaptation of Herbert Yardley’s memoir about his time establishing a code-cracking division for China in WW2.
Producer Mark Johnson, Gran Via Productions.
ALEXANDER KING
Edwardian supernatural thriller for Ecosse Films
IGNITION
Sci-fi thriller about DNA advancement for Elstree Studios
THE WILLIAM RICHARDS
Comedy drama about three men living in the same city, sharing the same name. They just don’t know it yet.
TREASURE ISLAND
Adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel for Ecosse Films.
CALLAS
Bio-pic for De Angelis Productions, Italy based on the book ‘Too Proud, Too Fragile’ by Alfonso Signorini.
THE ONE I LOVE
Triangular WW2 love story based on true events as told by artist Paul Maze in his memoir ‘The Progress Of The Sun’,
for Progress Pictures, Florida and Future Films, London.
THE DIVINER
Horror Thriller for producer Robert Jones, Material Entertainment
THE STAND-IN
Psychological thriller based on the novel by Deborah Moggach. Producer Marc Samuelson, Samuelson Productions.
THE NIGHT COUNTRY
Adaptation of Stuart O’Nan’s supernatural novel about a tragedy ripping apart the lives of American teenagers.
Producer Nick Wechsler, Industry Films.
BEFORE
Supernatural reincarnation thriller for Universal Pictures and producer Hal Lieberman
TELL
Action-Adventure based on the legend of William Tell, for producer Julia Palau