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Charlie Fletcher (born 1960) is a British
screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
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and author. His works include the children's novel, ''
Stoneheart''.
Biography
After studying English Literature at university, Fletcher began his career in the film business and then progressed to the
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where he worked in film editing.
He then went to
California
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where he became a screenwriter, having been awarded a Warner Brothers Fellowship in Screenwriting at
USC School of Cinema and TV. He wrote screenplays for
TriStar,
MGM
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,
Paramount
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and
Warner Bros.
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among others.
He also moved into other types of writing, including magazine features, a computer game and as a national Sunday newspaper columnist and a restaurant reviewer.
He met and married his wife, Domenica, a fellow
Scot
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, in Los Angeles. They have two children and live in
Edinburgh
Edinburgh ( ; gd, Dùn Èideann ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian ...
.
Filmography
Cinema
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''Fair Game'' (1995)
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''Mean Machine'' (2001)
TV series
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''Red Cap'' (2003)
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Steel River Blues
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'' (2004)
* ''
Murder Investigation Team
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'' (2005)
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Taggart
''Taggart'' is a Scottish detective fiction television programme created by Glenn Chandler, who wrote many of the episodes, and made by STV Studios for the ITV network. It originally ran as the miniseries "Killer" from 6 until 20 September 19 ...
'' (2005)
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''Afterlife'' (2005)
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Donovan
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'' (2006)
*''
Ultimate Force
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'' (2006)
*''
Wire in the Blood
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'' (2008)
Novels
Fletcher's ''
Stoneheart'', was shortlisted for the
Branford Boase Award
The Branford Boase Award is a British literary award presented annually to an outstanding children's or young-adult novel by a first-time writer; "the most promising book for seven year-olds and upwards by a first time novelist." The award is sha ...
in 2007.
''Stoneheart'', along with ''Ironhand'' and ''Silvertongue'' make up the
Stoneheart trilogy
The ''Stoneheart trilogy'' is a set of three children's novels by Charlie Fletcher, published between 2006 and 2008. The three novels in the trilogy are ''Stoneheart'', ''Ironhand'', and ''Silvertongue''. It is a story about two children, Georg ...
. In this trilogy there is a second reality to contemporary London, co-existing with "normal" reality, but seen by only a few people. This trilogy is about a boy who enters that second reality, and must survive in it.
Fletcher published a standalone novel, ''Far Rockaway'', in September 2011. It is the story of a feisty young woman who is injured with her grandfather in an accident and who wakes up in a world constructed from all the classic swashbuckling adventure novels he read her as a child. She has to make her way to the castle at the end of this world in order to rescue him, knowing that only by so doing will she survive getting back in the real world. The story takes place both in this fantasy world and in the modern Manhattan ER in which doctors fight for both their lives as their family look on.
''The Oversight'', the first in a series of adult novels, was published by
Orbit Books
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History
It was founded in 1974 as part of the Macdonald Futura publishing company. In 1992, its parent ...
in May 2014.
Bibliography
*The ''Stoneheart'' Trilogy
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Stoneheart'' (2006)
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Ironhand'' (2007)
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Silvertongue'' (2008)
*''Far Rockaway'' (2011)
*The ''Oversight'' Trilogy
** ''The Oversight'' (2014)
** ''The Paradox'' (2015)
** ''The Remnant'' (2017)
*''A Boy and his Dog at the End of the World'' (2019) Writing as C. A. Fletcher
References
External links
Fantastic Fiction Author Page*
REVIEW : The Oversight by Charlie Fletcher
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Living people
1960 births
British male screenwriters
British writers