[1] As well as producing many commercially successful and critically acclaimed films, he has helped discover and foster the next generation of directors and writers across the UK, Europe and the US.
Hollywood called Richard next in the form of Nicolas Cage’s production shingle Saturn Films with the project Shadow of the Vampire.
Richard was then asked to run a series of feature productions including Orlando Bloom vehicle The Calcium Kid for Working Title Films, Jennifer Love Hewitt-Dougray Scott romance The Truth About Love, and UK-Australian co-production Like Minds with Toni Collette, in which he spotted and cast the talent of then up-and-coming young British actors Eddie Redmayne and Tom Sturridge.
With Jermyn, he produced Craig Viveiros' darkly comic hitman road movie The Liability[4][5] starring Tim Roth, Peter Mullan and Jack O’Connell, and Robert Heath's psychological thriller Truth or Dare.
One of their big TV projects is BIRDS OF PREY, based on the best-selling novels by Wilbur Smith and adapted by Layer Cake writer JJ Connolly.