Chris
Cornwell

Writer for Television and Film

Chris was born in Bangkok and grew up in Boston and London. After working as a trainee reporter on a holiday island in the south of Thailand, he started working as a full time journalist in London and joined the BBC in 2009.

In 2013, he wrote sci-fi short Exit Log, which won the Bombay Sapphire Imagination Series. It went on to be produced, ultimately premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2014. After walking onto set to see a group of very talented people building a spaceship that had previously only existed in his head, Chris decided to become a full time screenwriter.

Following that, he studied screenwriting at the NFTS, graduating in 2016. His graduation script, Hoover’s Men, was optioned by TwelveTown. Since then, he has written on series such as Strike Back and A Discovery of Witches, and developed projects with Sky, Fifty Fathoms, FilmWave, BrainTrust, and Blazing Griffin.


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Television

Writer 

Discovery of Witches
1 x 60'

Fantasy series centred around the unlikely alliance between a witch and a vampire. Based on the All Souls Trilogy novels by Deborah Harkness.

Bad Wolf for Sky One
Strike Back: Series 7
1 x 45

Action-adventure/spy-drama based on the novel by Chris Ryan.

Left Bank Pictures for SKY
Down Don't Bother Me
Braintrust Productions
In Development

Writer & Creator 

High Grade
Tiger Aspect
In Development
The Return
Blazing Griffin
In Development
Empires of the Sea
E One
In Development
Night Shift
Fifty Fathoms
In Development
Hoover's Men
Twelve Town
In Development
Body/Worn
FilmWave
In Development
Solid State
Twelve Town
In Development
Burning Daylight
Red Planet
In Development
Edit
SKY
Davey Glass
In Development

Film

Writer 

Made in China
Producer Chi Thai
Last Conker Limited Broadcaster
Exit Log
Producer Jason Kemp
Director Gary Freedman
Starring
  • Orphelia Lovibond
  • Ruta Gedmintas
    • Two space engineer's journey through deep space takes a dramatic turn when they discover an emergency message from the past. Can they decipher the message and decide their fate forever?
    Independent / Bombay Sapphire
    Dark Was The Night
    Director Sam James McMullen
    Starring
  • Daisy Waterstone
  • Daniel O'Meara
    •
    A teenage daughter and her father eke out trapped lives aboard a crashed spaceship, separated from each other by a pane of glass. But the daughter's beginning to get cryptic radio messages from her mother, long thought to be lost in the crash.
    NFTS
    Fulfilment
    Director Brady Hood
    Starring
  • Billy Howle
  • Mark Stanley
  • Chloe Harris
    •
    Three workers are laid off from a massive internet fulfilment centre in Yorkshire. They break in take back what they're owed, but their loyalties to each other are tested when the heist goes horribly wrong.
    NFTS