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Projects & Scripts

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DR MARY WALKER

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The extraordinary life  story of Dr Mary Walker, the only woman to ever win the Medal of Honor. BIOGRAPHY

The full rights to this script are owned by Walden Media.

HANNIBAL BARCA

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Series Pilot

The life story of Hannibal, the legendary Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps with his elephants and attacked Rome.

DRAMA

THE NAGUAL

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After spending years on the run, Julia Azueta, a single mom with a teenaged son, must finally confront her violent, supernatural family lineage and do battle with her own father, a terrifying Toltec sorcerer known as a nagual who wants to acquire his grandson's blood.

             

Project in development. 

 The Official Movie Storyboards for

THE NAGUAL

Available on Amazon & other retailers

June 1st 2025

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THE GREAT SIGN

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After a French WWI officer serving on the front is unjustly sentenced to death for the murder of a general's son, he flees execution and goes in search of his wife who has become a refugee of the war. With a ruthless bounty hunter hot on his trail, he journeys across Europe to a fateful reunion with his wife at Fatima, Portugal where he witnesses The Miracle of the Sun. HISTORICAL DRAMA

THING OF DARKNESS

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Seven years after her entire family is murdered, a guilt-ridden reporter with self-destructive habits works for the first Black-owned daily newspaper in the country. The day after she is fired from her job, a serial killer with the same M.O. as the one that killed her family begins terrorizing New Orleans.

Based on the true story of the most infamous serial killer in the history of New Orleans. THRILLER

30 ASSAULT

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With World War II raging,  a crack team of agents from Britain's legendary  30 Assault Unit is sent deep into

Nazi Germany with orders to retrieve or assassinate a mysterious German scientist who wants to defect with a scientific breakthrough that could win the war for either side. THRILLER

HAWAII NEI

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Series Pilot

Three rival crime families—the powerful Ahuna family, their strongest rival the Koa family, and the venerable Chong family, all vie for control of Hawaii's lucrative underworld. 

One hour series pilot

CRIME DRAMA

SUPERCOLONY

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A reclusive, brilliant scientist is tasked with leading a team to investigate a colony of mutated six-inch ants that has wiped out a Canadian Inuit village. A tragic, scientific anomaly that turns into an existential threat to humanity when she discovers that each new generation within the colony is growing exponentially larger.

SCIENCE FICTION                    Novel available Christmas 2025

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DEADVILLE

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A Maxim-style photo-shoot  in a ghost town goes horribly wrong after one of the models steals a baby's skull from an old cemetery unleashing the wrath of vengeful ghosts. This is an ultra low  budget version of  The Grave with no VFX. HORROR

CLOUDS OF SORROW

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After his mother, father and entire village are murdered by Janjaweed warriors, a ten-year-old boy tries to flee Darfur. Along the way he meets a Medecins Sans Frontieres doctor and her Chadian driver who are trying to get back to Chad after their UNHCR convoy is attacked in an ambush. DRAMA

Winner of the 2012 Austin FF Drama Screenplay Award

under the pen name Jack Davidson.

THE GRAVE

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 A group of models on location at a beautiful wilderness lake incur the wrath of a family of Native American spirits after one of the models steals a baby's skull from an ancient burial ground. HORROR

© All content copyright John Royan, 2023. All rights reserved. Artwork: Eugene Delecroix, Open Art, Raphael Lacoste,John Chapman, George Port and PRPVFX and Paul Carran of Film Factory NZ. 

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