Robin C. Farrell

Currently in Pre-Production; adapted short-film narrative, based on the children's book of the same title, written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg (The Polar Express, Jumanji).

Farmer Bailey thinks he hits a deer on the road, but it turns out to be a young man; the stranger isn't hurt, but seems to lose his memory.  He stays on the Bailey's farm for a few weeks, memory never returning, but happy to help with the harvest and spend time with the family.  All the while, however, the trees surrounding the farm have turned red and gold with autumn, but the Bailey's farm remains in a mysterious state of prolonged summer...

Narrative film, based loosely on The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux and "The Phantom of the Opera" Musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber.  Excerpt can be found HERE.

It's a story that has been retold many times, and never in the same way.  Always changing, always a new interpretation.  This time...

The setting: modern day New York City; a hole-in-the-wall theatre.  The cast: a dedicated Stage Manager, an ruthless actress, an unflappable lighting technitian, and an entire host of unseen demons lurking in the wings.  The premise: this small theatre company gets their hands on the rights for the coveted Lloyd-Webber musical.   Then strange things start happening.  But not to the girl playing Christine, but the Stage Manager actually named Christine.  The strangest thing of all?  She is the composer and he is the undiscovered thespian...

Adapted feature-length narrative film script, based on the novel of the same title by Vivian Vande Velde (published in 1995). Go to my Videos Page to see some of the production work I've done with it so far.  Excerpt from the script can be found HERE.

When Kerry goes to the laundromat one night to retrieve her little brother's bear, which he left there earlier that day, she has no idea that this innocent favor might get her killed.  Or lead to kidnapping, car theft, murder . . . and Vampires.  Far from a Twilight-style romance, this story measures the value of life, death, and, above all, choices.

Original feature-length narrative film script.  Go to my Photo Gallery to see some photography work I've done with it so far.

Francine, raised in foster care, was born with a unique gift.  A gift she managed to keep hidden until, at age fifteen, an accident lands her in the hospital and her blood tests reveal her startling, inhuman secret.  Narrowly escaping the clutches of the government - and their experiments - she desperately searches for a safe-haven, a place where someone will look at her and see, not a machine, but a human being.  Like the small, vulnerable child that she really is.

Adapted short-film narrative script, based on the children's book of the same title by Walter D. Edmonds.  Excerpt from the script can be found HERE.

1757.  New York is still an English colony.  The French and Indian War rages.  When young Edward's father leaves home to join the local militia guarding against an oncoming raid, Edward, Mama, and little Trudy are quite alone on their farm.  Their only weapon is a gigantic, old-fashioned Spanish matchlock gun.  Can Edward bring himself to actually fire it when the time comes?

Original narrative series, for television or the web.

The secret organization that runs the world is known simply as The Deck.  Made up of 52 cards, from King all the way down to 2.  The Ace holds the Deck together, both highest and lowest card, playing in the tournament held every 52 years to determine which house will rule, Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs or Spades.  The bloodlines must never mix between suits.  They never have.  Or, so they thought.  The weight of the world rests on the balance of a house of cards - and one girl, one mix of two houses, may have the power to bring it tumbling down...

Original feature-length narrative film script.  Historical fiction drama.

Rachel's father was the most famous Admiral to ever serve the Royal Navy.  He did more for the Navy in his time there than ten officers together.  But he hid from society once Rachel was born, in order to raise her.  She doesn't have any idea who he used to be.  But when they call him in for one last favor and it costs him his life, she is thrown into high society, and caught unawares.  Everyone in the nobility wants a glimpse of her. Trouble is, so do her father's old enemies.  What neither of them know is that Rachel will prove to become a legend all her own.

Adapted short-film narrative script, based on the short story by Charles Richard Laing, featured in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress XVII.

What happens when, smack in the middle of battle, your enchanted sword decides it's not going to kill for you anymore?

Original feature-length narrative film script.

A story that delves into the mystery that is Avalon, the Faerie, King Oberon and Queen Titania, and, most of all, the Trickster, Puck.  He has a secret no one ever knew about.  A secret that will reveal how, contrary to popular belief, he's not as unique as we all believe.  That he, Puck, Robin Goodfellow himself...is actually a twin.

Original short-film narrative script. Go to my Photo Gallery to see a poster/concept art for it.

A commentary on high fantasy; a story that looks at how sometimes prophecy, and all its implications, aren't quite so simple to interpret.  Some destinies are hazier than others.

Adapted feature-length narraitve film script, based on the novel of the same title by Patricia C. Wrede.

Princesses are supposed to be proper, but Cimmorene can't stand it.  She runs away to be a Dragon's Princess, sorting treasure, conjugating latin and cooking, among other delectable recipes, cherries jubilee.  She finds it exciting and intriguing - far more so than embroidery lessons, anyway.  But try as she might, the rest of the world won't give up on propriety that easily.

Original short-film narrative script.

The Stagelights Theatre in England is a small but successful one, filled with all sorts of different types of workers, including a bottom-line business woman running the place, a fearless lighting technitian, and a rising star who happens to be American.  The three of them continually butt heads, but that might just change when the age-old expression, 'all the world's a stage,' one night, magically, becomes literal. 

Adapted feature-length narrative film script, based on the novel of the same title by Vivian Vande Velde.

In the virtual-reality game Heir Apparent, there are way too many ways to get killed.  And Jennifer seems to be finding them all.  Unless she can get the magic ring, find the stolen treasure, answer the dwarf's dumb riddles, fend off the barbarians, out-maneuver her half-brothers, cope with an army of ghosts and defeat the man-eating dragon, then she'll never win.  And if she doesn't win, she will die.  For REAL this time...