Christian’s screenplays have taken home top honors at Los Angeles Int’l Screenwriting competition, StoryPros, and other screenwriting competitions. He was a QF in the Nicholl Fellowship, named a finalist for the John Milius screenwriting award and Sun Valley Film Festival’s High Scribe award. He was also selected for the prestigious Plume & Pellicule screenwriting residency in Sierre, Switzerland.
FEATURE SCRIPTS
DEAD DON’T SPEAK
A feature-length crime thriller
Producer: Noah Lang, Witchcraft Motion Picture Co.
Director: Justin Oakey
When a young woman goes missing from a 1970s ranching town, an obsessive deputy’s investigation leads to a history of abducted girls and forces the deputy to confront her own tragic past.
COMPS: Silence of the Lambs, Zodiac
THE COFFIN MAKER
A feature-length historical drama
20 years after one of the worst Indian massacres in American history, a drunken and ornery former Union cavalryman sets out to save the last remaining survivor. Inspired by true events.
COMPS: Hostiles, The Revenant
Script available upon request.
SWEETLY
A 30-minute serialized comedic crime drama
Co-created with Brett Maline
A freelance corporate fixer with a rare spinal condition is dispatched to a small timber town to steal a secret that threatens to cripple the global petroleum industry.
COMPS: Barry, Breaking Bad
Pilot script and pitch deck available upon request.
IN GOD WE RUST
A feature-length crime thriller
A $7 million gold coin gone missing. A misguided Buddhist ex-con who’s coming for what’s due him. And the architects of the original robbery who must find the coin before the murderous felon exacts revenge on everyone involved.
COMPS: No Country For Old Men, You Were Never Really Here
Script available upon request.
CITY OF TREES
A feature-length drama
A rudderless 30-something returns to his hometown to care for his dying mother, but his good intentions unravel when he rekindles a romance with his now-married high school sweetheart and his black-sheep brother returns to town.
COMPS: You Can Count On Me, Manchester By The Sea
Script available upon request.
SERIES SCRIPTS
ECCO, IDAHO
A 1-hour serialized sci-fi thriller
On the dusty outskirts of Eisenhower’s America, a failed geophysicist and a teenage rebel outcast stumble into the greatest technology race the world has ever known when the girl’s best friend vanishes off the face of the planet.
COMPS: Dark (Germany), Stranger Things
Pilot script and pitch deck available upon request.
THE GOD MUSHROOM
A feature-length psychedelic thriller
A lone survivalist suffering from PTSD hunts for a fabled mushroom that reputedly allows you to speak with God, but an encounter with a lost 7-year-old girl in the remote wilderness sets off a deadly chase that forces him to choose between the girl and the answers he seeks.
COMPS: Jacob’s Ladder, Deliverance
Script available upon request.
BY THE WICKED, THE WICKED SHALL FALL
A feature-length crime drama
After a prominent ranching family is murdered, a homicide detective is partnered with a grizzled cattle cop uncovering ties to a fundamentalist cult/hate group.
COMPS: Wind River, Insomnia
Script available upon request.
ZAIRE
A 1-hour serialized crime drama. Based on a true story.
Producers: Jeff Most (Most Media), Michael Auret (Spier Films), Noah Lang (Witchcraft Motion Picture Company)
1974. A wiley American ex-pat becomes embroiled in trying to fix the Ali-Foreman heavyweight boxing championship bout while keeping pace with his ambitious Congolese wife and raising two multiracial daughters.
COMPS: Ozark, Narcos