Killer Elite
When his mentor is taken captive by a disgraced Arab sheik, a former killer for hire is forced to pick up the contract. His mission: kill three members of Britain’s elite Special Air Service responsible for the death of the sheik’s sons. The job quickly turns into a private war when it becomes clear the SAS are protected by a secret society of former SAS men called The Feather Men.
Feature Film
Written by Gary McKendry and Matt Sherring
Based on The Feather Men by Sir Ranulph Fiennes
Open Road/OmnilabMedia
Everything in This Country Must
Academy Award Nominee - Best Live Action Short
Fifteen year old Katie lives on a remote farm with her equally remote father. When a sudden flood strikes, her father’s favorite horse is caught in a fast rising river. As Katie and her father work desperately to save the drowning animal, a British Army patrol show up and help to save the horse. For a while the farmhouse is filled with life and laughter. But this is Northern Ireland during the Troubles, and Katie’s father would rather sacrifice his horse than be grateful to the enemy who killed his wife and son.
Short Film
Written by Gary McKendry and Colum McCann
Based on Everything in This Country Must by Colum McCann
Six Mile Productions
As If There Were Trees
Belfast. Now. As If There Were Trees tells the story of Jamie, the only local man on a construction crew made up of Polish immigrants. Fired for possessing drugs, Jamie's life spirals out of control... and then he gets word that his ex-wife wants to take their baby back to Poland. As If There Were Trees deals with identity and history in a frank, funny and ultimately uplifting tale of a land of emigrants trying to come to terms with its new reality as a land of immigrants.
Short Film
Written by Gary McKendry and Colum McCann
Based on As If There Were Trees by Colum McCann
Black North Productions
Broken Halo
By the mid-21st Century, pressures from domestic terrorism and mass migration resulted in the enactment of the Citizens Act. At birth, all citizens were embedded with a digital ID tag. This gave Governments the ability to monitor the movements of their people. It also lead to a crisis within the Witness Security Program and the creation of the Halo Program. Using technology developed for great deep space travel, high value witnesses could be jumped back in time and hidden in the pre-digital world. The question was no longer WHERE to hide a witness, it was WHEN.
Feature Film
Also 400 page outline for an Original Series
Written by Gary McKendry and Michael Carty
The Beggar King
This script is based on an altogether original true story of Joel, a renowned storyteller who loses his voice to throat cancer and believes he has lost everything. An encounter with his old teacher shows him that, in fact, he’s been given a great gift. Their meetings lead him on a journey into the timeless wisdom of the tales he was once able to tell — a world of beggars and kings, monks and demons, tigers and lost horses — and ultimately toward the secret of happiness. The tale seamlessly weaves between two worlds, the real and the fantastical, and Joel discovers his story is as powerful as that of any legendary hero’s tale. Sometimes it’s a rocky road to happily ever after.
Feature Film
Written by Gary McKendry and Michael Carty
Based on The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness
by Joel ben Izzy
Palomar Pictures
Joseph and the Girl
Joseph Saudek is a tough, career criminal in his fifties winding up a fifteen year prison stretch. Things go bad and Joseph finds himself free in a world he doesn’t understand, being pressured to pull a heist he knows nothing about. The loner needs a plan and a partner. He finds both in Julie Duplantier, a twenty-year-old DJ desperate to get a name and get out of New Orleans. Joseph and the Girl is a story of contrasts. Young and old, past and future, analog and digital, making ghosts and making good.
Feature Film
Written by Gary McKendry and Matt Sherring
Based on Joseph et la Fille by Xavier de Choudens
Palomar Pictures
Golf
Marty “Golf” O’Hara is a devil may care kid, growing up in the Bronx with his friends, Neal Finnegan and Kevin Cavanagh. At age 16, the three friends become entangled with local mobsters. In order to protect their families, they become a tool of the mob. As an adult, Golf becomes a likable junkie and petty thief. Neal, the seventh son of a seventh son, owns a dive bar and refuses to settle down. Kevin, now a New York City cop, is married to Neal’s childhood sweetheart. When their old friend Amy Muldoon returns to the neighborhood, they are all reminded that their past is still waiting to catch up with them. Funny, violent and haunting, Golf is a love story, the tale of lifelong friends and the women who make men of them.
Original Series. 13 Episodes.
Written by Michael Carty and Gary McKendry
The Archer’s Tale
A brutal raid on the quiet English coastal village of Hookton in 1342 leaves but one survivor: a young archer named Thomas. On this terrible dawn, his purpose becomes clear — to recover a stolen relic and pursue to the ends of the earth the murderous knight bearing a blue and yellow standard. His journey leads him through the war ravaged countryside of England, France and Spain, and sets him on his ultimate quest: the search for the Holy Grail. Thomas goes from vagabond to heretic in this story that is as much about flesh and blood as it is armor and mail.
Episodic
Written by Gary McKendry and Matt Sherring
Based on The Grail Quest novels by Bernard Cornwell
The Warlord
Chrysagon de la Cruex is a knight charged with holding a tower at the very edge of Christendom. With his small band of soldiers, he finds himself battling Danish raiders in strange land ruled by pagan Gods. Beliefs and loyalties are strained to breaking when Chrysagon falls for a beautiful local girl. When he finds she is to be married to the son of a village elder, he invokes the "Droit du seigneur” - the right of the Lord of a Domain to sleep with a bride on her wedding night. But custom demands the bride be given up by dawn. The following morning the girl is not returned. The aggrieved husband goes to the Danes for justice. And hell is unleashed...
Feature Film
Written by Gary McKendry and Matt Sherring
Based on The Warlord by John Collier and Millard Kaufman
From The Lovers by Leslie Stevens