Moran won, and his entry Cheap Rate Gravity was produced and shown both on the sci-fi channel and in front of full-length movies, including Final Destination 2.
Moran secured an agent at the PFD Literary Agency from the strength of the competition win, a spec film script, and a six-part TV drama entitled The School.
He wrote the entire run of The School on spec, later saying he was unaware that generally only a pilot is written until a production company shows interest.
Moran scripted the 2005 film Severance, which concerns office workers on a team building trip being stalked by a masked killer.
Once I'd calmed down, I thought that was a pretty good idea – take some standard, British office types, and throw them into a cabin-in-the-woods horror, see how they react.
[8] In 2013 he wrote and directed a short film, Crazy For You, a romantic comedy about a serial killer, which starred Arthur Darvill and Hannah Tointon.
[10] In 2014 he wrote and directed another short, Three Minutes,[11] starring Daniel Brocklebank, which was also repurposed into a music video[12] for the band Eighteen Nightmares at the Lux.
There are many allusions to terrorism during the episode, and filming on several controlled explosions in Cardiff was almost disrupted by a real terrorist attack in Glasgow.
[19] Moran's Doctor Who episode, "The Fires of Pompeii" – set during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius – was broadcast on 12 April 2008 as part of the revived program's fourth series.
He has written, and made his directorial debut with, the crime thriller web series Girl Number 9, starring Tracy-Ann Oberman, Joe Absolom and Gareth David-Lloyd.
[27] In September 2016, Moran's new webseries Mina Murray's Journal, a modern vlog adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, launched on YouTube.