Screenwriting

I’m developing two television series for production, along with a number of spec feature screenplays. I work in grounded science fiction, big IP ideas, and genre stories of all sizes. What I lack as a joke writer I make up for with my killer sense of structure.

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Inchworm is an ensemble drama about a community of New Yorkers trying to carry on their messy personal lives while a giant alien object — on Earth for a purpose no one understands — rolls excruciatingly slowly through their neighbourhood.

written by
Daniel Cockburn & Lia Matthew Brown

1-hour grounded science fiction drama series. For pilot teleplay and series outline, please inquire below.

A group of people site astride horses before the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Safecrackers: in the wake of World War III, The Mummy meets Horizon Zero Dawn as a team of scavengers work together to loot the fortified mansion of the world’s most paranoid trillionaire.

written by
Lia Matthew Brown

Feature screenplay. For more information, don’t hesitate to reach out.

Further specs & samples

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Zombie Survival Camp (feature spec)

Feuding twin brothers attend a weekend apocalypse roleplay for their fortieth birthdays, then must fight for their lives when the camp is attacked by actual zombies.

Time-Travelling Drunks (half-hour comedy series pilot)

Deadbeat best friends find themselves slipping backwards in time whenever they get drunk… but how can they repair the damage they’ve caused in their own history, when they return to the present the second they sober up?

Untitled Not-For-Profit Workplace Comedy (half-hour comedy series pilot)

A half-hour workplace comedy set in the bonkers world of a struggling film festival.

STAR WARS spec script (feature spec)

I know what you’re thinking… did this nerd write a Star Wars movie for fun during the pandemic? She sure did! And it’s a hoot. Speculative draft, set in the Sequel Trilogy era.