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Contents

Page Section Page Number

Film Synopsis 3

Director’s Vision 4

Cast 5-6

Director 7

Director of Photography 8

Make-up designer 8

Script Supervisor 9

International Sales Agent 9

Executive Producers 10

Producers 11

Co-Producer 12

Service Production Company 13

Post Production & Collection Accountant 13

Sales Duistribution & Film Festivals 14

Contact Details 15

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Film SynopsisJohn Doe, an overweight, middle-aged London prisoner, with no hope of an early release, occupies his waking hours obsessing about the English football team’s performance in the World Cup.

After tracking down a mysterious and powerful fellow inmate, he is presented with a means of escape that will allow him to watch his daughter, England’s rising star, Sixteen year old Alex Thatcher play in the final.

However, freedom comes at a price and in return for granting this unlikely favour, John Doe agrees to pay his benefactor a large sum of cash; with an aggressive poison used as down-payment on revenge should he fail to pay his benefactor, Doe sets off on his release.

Doe soon finds himself back at his old house and after watching the first half of the football he decides to make his way to his ex-wives house where the cash is buried.

But after years in prison, will Doe’s cash still be hidden in the garden allowing him to pay off his debt and come face to face with his estranged daughter? Or has he met his fate?

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Director’s VisionStephen Cookson

Stephen Cookson has been working with Timothy Spall for many months discussing the film and the lead character’s background; going into great detail about John Doe’s history; why he went to prison, what happened to his wife and his relationship with his daughter?

Timothy believes that with Stephen’s help, using this organic method of giving the character many layers, is the key to creating unique and three dimensional characters. This is the same method he used for Secrets & Lies, All or Nothing and most recently Mr Turner. With much of the preparation already done, both actor and director are so familiar with how the character thinks and behaves, that it will make shooting on a relatively short schedule much easier.

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CastCast as John Doe - Timothy Spall

Timothy Spall is an English character actor and occasional presenter. He began his career in theatre portraying title roles in Macbeth and Othello. In the early 80s he moved into TV roles with Mike Leigh’s “Home Sweet Home” and later had his own drama series Frank Stubbs Promotes in 1993. In his early career, Spall appeared in a number of award-winning features, particularly Life Is Sweet (1990) and Secrets & Lies (1996), for which he earned a BAFTA Award Nomination, and the Gilbert & Sullivan biopic Topsy-Turvy (1999).

Spall has worked with a number of noted directors throughout his career, including: Ken Russell in Gothic (1986), Clint Eastwood in White Hunter Black Heart (1990), Bernardo Bertolucci in The Sheltering Sky (1990), and Kenneth Branagh in Hamlet (1996) as Rosenkrantz.

In 2005, Spall played the starring role of Albert Pierrepoint in the film Pierrepoint, which was released as The Last Hangman in the United States. Moving on from this, Spall voiced Phil Collins’ manager, Barry Mickelthwaite In the 2006 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. In 2007, he starred as Nathaniel in Disney’s Enchanted and Beadle Bamford in Tim Burton’s production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

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CastCast as John Doe - Timothy Spall (Continued)

Some of Spalls more recent and high-profile roles include Peter Pettigrew in the Harry Potter film series; Winston Churchill in The King’s Speech (2010), for which as a member of the ensemble he was jointly awarded the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. Spall reprised the role at the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony; Peter Taylor in The Damned United (2009); Beadle Bamford in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) and his own documentary Timothy Spall: Back at Sea (2010–2012).

On 24 May 2014 he won the Best Actor award at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival for his lead role in Mike Leigh’s British biographical drama, Mr. Turner. Spall also recently won Best Actor at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards for Mr Turner and Best Actor for his role in My Angel at the Monaco International Film Festival.

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Director: Stephen CooksonSince making short films with some of the Monty Python crew, his vivid imagination caught the attention of Robert Zemeckis and Michael Jackson’s production company in the late 90’s, where he was given his first development deals.

He went on to work at the Cannes Films Festival and discovered that during his first year he would be a runner for David Lean, who became his mentor. Cookson acted alongside Jason Connery in Journey’s End and found himself that same year working as an extra on The Russia House with Sean Connery. He took as much extra work as he could, working on large scale studio movies filming in the UK and talked to top directors including Brian De Palma, Jerry Zucker, Kevin Costner and Kenneth Branagh.

He started his directing and producing career by doing many short films and commercials. One of the first projects was for an aspiring singer called Ricky Gervais. Fate led him to meet his neighbour; Academy Award winning producer John Daly (The Last Emperor, Platoon, and Terminator) who helped him raise the finance for his first movie Stoneman. He went on to direct Mumbo Jumbo (starring Joss Ackland, and Brian Blessed) which was distributed by Warner Bros.

Stephen’s first film with Timothy Spall - My Angel, was the first British production to win Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay, plus Best Actor (Timothy Spall) and Best Actress (Brenda Blethyn) at the glitzy French film festival, Monaco International Film Festival in 2014.

He is currently writing a comedy with Timothy Spall called ‘Skid Marks and Glamour’ which focuses on what happens to actors when they reach the end of their career.

Stephen’s next project is the official sequel to David Lean’s Ryan’s Daughter, written by Oscar winner Robert Bolt (Dr Zhivago and Laurence of Arabia) which he is developing with Sarah Miles.

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Director of PhotographyDick Pope A British cinematographer who has worked numerous times with British film director Mike Leigh. He is most recently known for the cinematography in The Illusionist directed by Neil Burger, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. He has also been nominated for a 2015 Acadamy Award for Best Achievement in Cinematography for Mr. Turner.

Script SupervisorAngela AllenAllen’s illustrious career as a script supervisor spans six decades, with work on some of cinema’s most celebrated films, including Ronin, The African Queen, The Dirty Dozen and Murder on the Orient Express. She was awarded the Michael Balcon BAFTA in 2006. Some of her other credits include: Tea With Mussolini, Lost In Space, First Knight, Hamlet, The Man Who Would Be King, Moby Dick, The Running Man and Night Of The Iguana.

Make-up DesignerChristine BlundellBlundell won an Oscar for Best Make-up on Topsy Turvy and was BAFTA nominated for Finding Neverland, Vera Drake and One Chance. Her other credits include; Sherlock Holmes - A Game Of Shadows, About Time, Gambit, London Boulevard, Happy Go Lucky, Sunshine, Casino Royal, Closer, To Kill A King, All or Nothing and Life Is Sweet.

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International Sales Agent: Odin’s Eye Entertainment Odin’s Eye Entertainment (OEE) is a vertically integrated Production, Distribution and International Sales Agency that specialise in working with both emerging and established filmmakers across a wide variety of genres. As a Sales Agency, OEE represents Feature Film and Television content worldwide hosting its own sales booth at every major festival including, Cannes, AFM, MIPCOM, Berlin & Filmart. As a Film and Television Production Company, newly created Odin’s Eye Productions, creates original content from within as well as acquiring, developing and producing third party product for international sale. In 2012, OEE inked a deal with Warner Bros. Digital Distribution (WBDD) that will see WBDD take on select OEE titles for electronic sell-through and Cable/VOD in North America. Additionally OEE has an output distribution deal with Pinnacle Films for ancillary distribution in Australia/New Zealand. In early 2013, with the start up of OEE’s Los Angeles operations, OEE appointed ex-First Look/WB/Disney, Ildi Toth Davy as Snr VP International Sales & Acquisitions.

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Executive Producers: Red Rock EntertainmentRed Rock Entertainment is a film finance company, based at Elstree Studios; working in conjunction with a number of UK film companies to raise equity for Independent film projects. As well as film, Red Rock Entertainment also raise funds for TV and Distribution.

Red Rock Entertainment is hired by production and distribution companies to help raise finance for their projects. Their sole focus in this project is as an investment opportunity working closely with the production team.

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Blethyn, Peter raised all the project finance and had a day to day involvement, overseeing the production office with responsibility for budgetary control; overseeing actors / crew contracts. Peter operates as Chief Financial Officer for the company including liaising with professional consultants and generally handling the business side of the operation allowing Steve to devote his energy to the creative elements. Peter also oversees script development.

ProducersPeter Keegan and Stephen Cookson

With a successful track record in a number of property and construction ventures over the past twenty years, Peter has utilised his skills as a chartered surveyor, in financial control and contracts in making his transition into film production.

Peter has worked on two films with Stephen Cookson – Journey to the Moon where he was involved in the initial setup, castings, finance and shooting at Shepperton Studios and on location in Coventry; and in the multi award winning My Angel with Timothy Spall and Brenda

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Co-ProducerJules Gladys

Jules Gladys is a filmmaker turned producer from Berlin, Germany.She started her career as fund-raiser and promoter of the BerlinShort Film Festival. Jules then made short films as producer/director. Her first, “I was a Cowboy”, was a silent film screened inthe underground trains in Berlin. This was followed by a series of“Cowboy” shorts.

Brought up in the shadow of the Berlin Wall and shaken by itscollapse, Jules made a series of documentaries about the impactof the wall on people’s lives, as well as the German parliament.Her documentaries found worldwide distribution on an educational level. Her most acclaimed documentary portrays some of the world’s most famous artists, such as Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, and Jonathan Meese, premiered on the Art Forum Cologne.

Jules shot her most acclaimed documentary in 2005/6 in London, Berlin and NYC, portraying contemporary artists, their motivation and their art. She interviewed Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Jim Jarmush, Jonathan Meese, Michael Joo and many more in their private spaces, studios or galleries.

“A picture of Damien Hirst” followed. This portrait of Britain’s most successful living artist shows how his vision translates into a physical experience, visited by thousands in Naples, Mexico City and NYC.

During the last three years, Jules has worked in India, and established contacts with Viacom 18, Reliance, Prasad Group, Prime Focus International, DAR Motion Pictures, and Disney. With her company Rosemilk Ltd, she presented Indian directors with their short films in Cannes this year. Jules, now based in London, is packaging feature films as independent producer.

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Service Production CompanyChief Productions

Chief is Manchester’s leading service production company, helping national and inter-national clients to make great work since 1997. They have a vast knowledge of crew and camera companies within the area and are able to negotiate the best deals for visiting producers. Chief operates from Longhouse which is 7,000 sq ft of flexible stu-dio space in the heart of MediaCity. With on-site parking, easy access bays and stylish backstage areas, it’s the perfect environment for filming.

Post Production & Collection Account Management (CAM) Freeway CAM (UK) LtdFreeway act as a collection account manager to securely, impartially and transparently collect, administer and disburse any audiovisual production’s revenues that need to be shared with financiers, production partners and talent. If you are entitled to diligently receiving a pre-agreed share in a production’s revenues, you can rely on Freeway to ensure to collect all revenues at source in a secured collection account and to transparently report the exact status of exploitation of the production and generated income and timely and accurately pay-out each revenue share to each beneficiary.

By appointing Freeway as collection account manager (CAM) on a production, the various revenue streams that need to be shared between a production’s multiple stakeholders are received in one single purpose and bankruptcy remote collection account.

In this collection account all collected revenues are allocated to the financiers, (co-producers), sales agent and talent in accordance with the production’s pre-agreed revenue sharing waterfall and paid out at agreed intervals or upon request.

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Sales and DistributionWith the calibre of cast and crew attached to the project we are confident, The Special One will be noticed and critically acclaimed on all the distribution platforms, from premiering in the UK and at international film festivals to theatrical release through to home entertainment, TV and downloads.

Film FestivalsOur aim is to get The Special One into many well-known established film festivals on the back of Mr Turner. These festivals include Cannes, Raindance, Sundance, Venice, Toronto and the London Film Festival. In addition we will select a number of less known but growing festivals where the film can be further promoted and ultimately distributed in those territories (predominately Europe, Canada and the USA).

Tel: +44 (0)203 745 5380 Email: info@redrockentertainment.com

Tel: +44 (0)203 745 5380 Email: info@redrockentertainment.com