Writer
Warren Slingsby is a writer of literary fiction and screenplays. Having written two novels in the mystery, thriller genre, Warren is now writing for the screen with two feature scripts – Reboot and Alexander, The Gay – finished to date. He is adapting his first novel To Catch a Storm into a 6 part streaming series script. Breakdown is a short found footage style horror film which going into production in Perth, Australia.
Projects
Alexander, the Gay
Feature film script
complete
Synopsis
A professional footballer meets and falls in love with a man and wants the world to know, but his agent and club are determined to keep him in the closet.
120 minutes
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BREAKDOWN
Short found footage sytle horror film script, complete
Synopsis
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CURRENTLY IN PRODUCTION
Perth, Australia
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10 minutes
To Catch A Storm
Streaming Series, In development
Synopsis
Janet wakes with a dead man in a strange hotel, her memory erased by a drug and alcohol binge. Tracking down how she came to be there, she stumbles into a dangerous game of cat and mouse crossing the paths of thieves and oligarchs on a journey into the black market for stolen art where she unlocks the whereabouts of a priceless stolen Rembrandt.
6 episodes of 40 minutes
Get in touch if you’d like to read this script.
REBOOT
Film script, completed 2019
Synopsis
A contemporary, meta horror film and love letter to the slasher horror films that haunted your teenage dreams.
When the cast of a horror franchise take a secluded retreat to read the next film’s script, the actor’s begin to die in grisly circumstances leaving film’s single minded producer to take control in order to save and reboot the franchise.
1 hr 30 mins.
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Ink, Blood and Bone
Novel, completed 2019
Synopsis
A dark thriller that taps the vein of ‘Se7en’.
Connor has one tenth of a whole body tattoo. Art spread over the skin of ten people. Now someone is harvesting the tattoos from their custodians – ink, blood and bone – to create one audacious masterpiece. Connor’s tattoo is round his throat. He must find the collector before he becomes part of his art.
Currently looking for representation with this novel. Get in touch if you’d like to receive sample chapters.
To Catch A Storm
Novel, completed 2014
Synopsis
A contemporary heist thriller.
Janet wakes with a dead man in a strange hotel, her memory erased by a drug and alcohol binge. Tracking down how she came to be there, she stumbles into a dangerous game of cat and mouse crossing the paths of thieves and oligarchs on a journey into the black market for stolen art where she unlocks the whereabouts of a priceless stolen Rembrandt.
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