Stephen James Thompson

Stephen began his career as a reader and script editor before joining Magic Hour Film as Creative Director, with the company producing 'A Good Woman' with Scarlett Johansson, and 'Ashes and Sand' with Nick Moran. Stephen went on to head up Development at Pebble Beach Screen Partners. A highly regarded 'script doctor', he is regularly hired to improve scripts in development, as well as receiving many prestigious screenplay commissions. including, recently, a racing film for an American mini-studio with Oscar nominated Michaël R. Roskam directing due to begin production shortly; a Nat King Cole/ Natalie Cole biopic. with Christine Swanson; and a retro CIA thriller with Justin Chadwick. Other screenplays by Stephen, all in various stages of development, are set to be directed by an array of wonderful industry talents such as Mark Heller; Ben Hooton; Arun Kumar; and Darcia Martin.

A crime novelist, Stephen has written Teen Avenue, the first in a series of crime novels set in 70's Mayfair and published by Gravity Hill Press in the summer of 2024. A TV adaptation is already in co-production with 1185 Films.