A selection of StoryFirst’s pipeline of projects is below. In addition, the company is working on a fully developed series with a major US network and has a series developed and packaged with a US studio. StoryFirst has approximately 15 series with pilot scripts completed that are now being packaged.
PIPELINE
OLIGARCHS
DANCING DAGGERS
CHRONICLES OF NICK
STIGGY
PORTOBELLO ROAD
DANCING DAGGERS
In the land of Eldland, nestled in the mountains between the three great kingdoms sits a small and dangerous inn. The Dancing Daggers Inn. Wherein, a young woman has been murdered.
But when Wizard-Detective Kendlewood and his halfling apprentice Gilly arrive it becomes clear that this isn’t a simple case. The victim is Nim - the elven princess - and she was there to negotiate a peace settlement, looking to end a war that’s been raging for centuries. Within are spies, kings, knights and rogues of every type found in fantasy.
With a list of suspects including royalty from multiple sides of the war Kendlewood and Gilly need to solve the case before word gets out, and a fragile ceasefire deteriorates into an even more intractable bloodbath…
In Partnership with: Court Five and Starlings Television
Showrunner: Kim Newton (Gotham, The Blacklist)
To be Directed by: Adam Kane (American Gods, Prodigal Son)
Created by: The Burgos Brothers
Format: 10x55, Returnable
Materials: Pilot Script, Deck, Live Pitch
Practical Effects by: Weta Workshop (Lord of the Rings, Dune)
CHRONICLES OF NICK
Nick Gautier is sixteen. He’s broke. He’s brilliant. He’s got a temper, a single mom working triple shifts — and a dark power buried in his bloodline that could end the world.
Set in myth-soaked New Orleans, The Chronicles of Nick is a genre-bending YA drama about identity, rage, romance, and the brutal cost of free will.
The Chronicles of Nick is a 6-part returning dark fantasy, action, drama series based on the bestselling YA series by Sherrilyn Kenyon. The world of the Dark-Hunters has been developed across over 70 books with sales of over 70 million to a huge international fanbase. Chronicles of Nick combines our real world with fantasy elements, in the vein of Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Umbrella Academy, to create a show that has universal all ages appeal.
PORTOBELLO ROAD
The year is 1973 - the music scene has never been more vibrant, exciting, or full of life. But Portobello Road music management is struggling - an aging roster of artists and a catalogue value just enough for the company’s “old hand” Sam to be able to retire without too much trouble…
Until Penny shakes things up. She’s been given the company by her father as an early inheritance and she’s desperate to make her mark. Diving straight into the world of sex-drugs-and-rock’n’roll she will do whatever she can to make Portobello Road the centre for a new era of music.
Portobello Road is the Call My Agent of the 1970s London music scene. With Executive Producer Eric Clapton, and planned original music by the Bee Gees’ Barry Gibb - as well as a cavalcade of needle-drop classics of the era - Portobello Road will sound, look, and feel like a world everyone recognises, but nobody has seen before.
Written and to be Directed by: Steve Shill (Dexter, The Sopranos, The Wire, Rome)
Format: 8x60, Returnable
Consulting Producer: John McLaughlin (Black Swan, Parker)
Artists attached: Eric Clapton, Barry Gibb
oligarchs
The greatest transfer of wealth in history. The rise and fall of the men and women who moved it.
In the dying throws of a vast empire a small group of men and women would go from poverty to power at breakneck speed. Having amassed the wealth of an entire civilization they would begin to believe they ruled their country, until a new power would push them to the margins.
The men and women depicted are composite characters – but the stories of how they rose and fell are based on something entirely real.
Constructed with consultation from people who saw the events first hand, Oligarchs is a startling, shocking, and truthful account of the building of a new nation - and gives greater understanding to issues never more relevant than today.
Written by: Brendan Foley
To be Directed by: Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Ben Hur)
Format: 8x50
Materials: Pilot Script, Bible, Visual Presentation
stiggy
An enigma of a man, desperate for love, but forever alone and ultimately unfulfilled… hiding behind the rich tapestry of his successes. Stiggy pulls back the curtain on the impresario responsible for the revolution which changed the world of entertainment
Robert Stigwood is the most famous man you’ve never heard of. An Aussie pretending to be British, a gay man pretending to be straight, Stiggy is behind the songs, movies, and musicals that define the ‘60s, ‘70s, and ‘80s. And yet nobody really knew him... until now.
The results of his machinations – from the Bee Gees to John Travolta, The Who to Andrew Lloyd Webber, Hair to Jesus Christ Superstar, Grease to Saturday Night Fever, Olivia Newton-John, Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, Mick Jagger, Tina Turner, Andy Gibb, Mel Gibson, Evita, Elton John – have been played on our sound systems, streamed on our lap-tops, watched on TV and swooned over in cinemas and concerts for fifty years.
