Unfilmed Screenplays - A Selection
A NAÏVE AND SENTIIMENTAL LOVER
An updated adaptation of the 1970 novel by John Le Carré. It is darkly comic and uniquely different from spy novels of the period.
EARTHLY POWERS
An eight part serial for TV based on the novel by Anthony Burgess, who read the script and liked it a lot.
Hugh comments: “This was the last project of the Gregg / Stoddart partnership – the endless attempts to achieve it were a strain. And it haunts me a little that Burgess died with it still unfilmed.”
BURMESE DAYS
An adaptation of George Orwell’s early novel for the cinema, developed with Mike Newell.
BITTER LEMONS
A feature film script freely adapted from Lawrence Durrell’s non-fiction book on the war in Cyprus.
GENOVA
Another feature script: a teenage girl, as a plea to her parents not to part, pretends she has been kidnapped. The plan goes terribly wrong.