These are just some of my screenplays and TV scripts. There are more in development. There are high concept, big budget thrillers and fantasies and low budget TV series ideas, concepts and scripts. Contact me if you want more details, especially if you are a publisher, film or TV producer, actor, film agent or network executive.

Under Work in Progress you will get an insight into how I work and see listings of novels currently developed.

Mostly I work alone, but I have worked with other writers.

All material on this page is the copyright of David Callinan (one with co-writer David Chitty) and has been registered at the Library of Congress in Washington DC. All rights reserved.

Coming of age story for innocent Irish boy in the US as he discovers his real father.

An American musical conductor returns to Ireland (where he had been a student 16 years earlier) to conduct a new symphony and discovers he has a son he never knew about by his then student lover. She had given up the boy to the nuns and, now 16, he is young and unworldly but with a voice like an angel singing Mozart. He takes him back to the US, to his wife and family, but is pursued by the boy’s natural mother. In the emotional turmoil that follows, the boy cracks, hits the streets, discovers sex and drugs, joins a band and becomes an underground superstar.

Infertile couple hire surrogate who seduces husband.

A childless middle class couple in the UK use a surrogate when it is discovered the wife cannot conceive. The surrogate is a wild, erotic and exotic US sculptress living temporarily in Cornwall. When the husband is seduced by the surrogate and they are awarded the baby back by the courts, the wife goes off the Richter and kidnaps the baby.

Next time your kids turn on their computer it could be their last - a million kids did.

Zak McGinn, 17 year old computer nerd, hacks into a computer game played by a cosmic babe from another dimension. The game makes him a million but has a downside - it traps millions of kids in yet another dimension - run by a creature called Creator. Zak has to go into the computer as a games figure, defeat Creator and get the kids back.

UK TV only (although it could translate to the US)

A disgraced police officer booted out of the force on a false corruption charge and a gangland boss, released from prison for a crime he did not commit, join forces in an unholy alliance. The men are opposites, but share common ground. They were both framed by a shadowy government figure known as Icarus. They both have a burning desire to avenge injustice and right wrongs (the Robin Hood factor) and they both become entangled in each others private lives. Pilot episode deals the forced re-patriation of British Asians by a covert association between the government and organised crime.

UK TV only

Jack Dancer was a high flying media star until he fell foul of a conspiracy to disgrace him. His wife, Meg, anxious for a change of life to save her marriage, suggests they leave London for good with their two children, Liam and Millie. Jack buys a rundown local newspaper, ‘The Voice’, in the Forest of Dean and a tumbledown mansion tucked away in the middle of the forest. They bought it by auction and don’t realise the house holds a secret that will bedevil them. Liam and Millie are predictably unimpressed, especially when they can’t get a signal on their mobiles.

The Dancers soon learn that they have near neighbours, very near in fact, living in a cottage and barn on their land. Fergus and his daughter Roxy are drop out squatters with, they claim, ancient Forest rights. Roxy and Liam are immediately attracted and repelled by each other and Meg finds the poetic, anarchic and mystical Fergus a potent brew.