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This page contains .pdfs of work materials and behind-the-scenes videos from my past projects. I'm sharing them here for educational and historical purposes only. All rights reserved; copyrights and trademarks belong to their respective owners.
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1991 project bible for POP 2: The Shadow and the Flame [PDF] for the Broderbund development team. (Even though this one worked out OK, I recommend avoiding making game bibles.)
Game script (written in 1993-95, with Tomi Pierce). This 119-page "linear screenplay" served as the team's first development bible, and a pitch document for publishers. The full game script, including alternative story branches, overheard dialog and character logic, ran more than 800 pages.
Broderbund's 1997 "Making Of" video for the game's release.
Screenplay adaptation I wrote in 2010-11 for Paul Verhoeven to direct. If you’re a fan of the game, be warned that many of your favorite characters and subplots aren't in the screenplay. Verhoeven needed a tight script he could drive like an express train, not a faithful overstuffed one that would bewilder audiences unfamiliar with the original. We never got to make the movie, so you’ll have to judge for yourself whether it would have worked on screen.
A 2-minute video trailer I made from PS2 game footage to pitch the movie to studios with John August
in 2003.
My last screenplay draft [PDF] for Disney/Bruckheimer in June 2005. Other writers took the torch after that, in a 3-year development process including a pause for the 2008 WGA writers' strike.