His first solo credit was a BBC TV classic serial The Dark Angel[1] (1989) with Peter O'Toole, Jane Lapotaire and Beatie Edney, an adaptation of Sheridan Le Fanu's gothic novel Uncle Silas, shown on PBS's Masterpiece Theatre.
For producer Stephen Woolley an adaptation of William McIlvanney's novel The Big Man (1990) followed,[2] starring Liam Neeson, Billy Connolly and Joanne Whalley.
His adaptation of a Cornell Woolrich story The Black Bargain (1995) starring Miguel Ferrer and Peter Berg was directed by Keith Gordon for the US pay TV channel Showtime.
Work followed in credited and uncredited scripts for films such as Hippie Hippie Shake (2009) with Cillian Murphy and Sienna Miller, Possession (2002) with Gwyneth Paltrow, The Avengers[3] (1998) with Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman, Godzilla[4] (1998) with Matthew Broderick, Entrapment (1998) with Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Pedro Almodóvar's Live Flesh (1997) with Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz.
Scripts in development included adaptations of Evan Hunter's mafia thriller Criminal Conversation for Tom Cruise, the sci fi novel Spares for Steven Spielberg, and a version of Ayn Rand's classic The Fountainhead for Oliver Stone.