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 to date. He is adapting his first novel To Catch a Storm into a 6 part script and he is also soon to start shooting a short found footage style horror film which he has written and will direct.

Projects

Alexander the Gay film script

Alexander, the Gay

Feature film script, complete

Synopsis

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.

120 minutes

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Reboot - short horror movie poster

BREAKDOWN

Short found footage sytle horror film script, complete

Synopsis

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.

10 minutes

To Catch A Storm

TV 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

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REBOOT

Film script, completed 2019

Synopsis

A contemporary, meta horror film and love letter to the slasher horror films that haunted your teenage dreams.

The cast of a failing horror franchise are taken on a remote country retreat to read the ‘reboot’ script. But when a real-life killer starts picking them off one by one, Minnie must try to save herself and the rest of the cast with what she’s learned as a horror film scream queen.

1 hr 30 mins. Currently looking for representation with this film

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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