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James Roblin is an award-winning British screenwriter. His credits include Chinese-language detective television series JUDGE DEE’S MYSTERY (Netflix/87 Films/Combo Drive Pictures) and award-winning short film BACH IS BLUE. He has numerous original film and television projects currently in development, including Mat Whitecross comedy murder mystery SLEEPING LIONS (Atar Productions/Mint Pictures/Mister Smith Entertainment/Sky Cinema), which will star Jonathan Pryce and Nick Mohammed, and George Orwell biopic THE LAST MAN IN EUROPE (The Lighthouse), which won The Brit List 2021.
Credits
Credits
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DateProduction (role)CompanyProject details
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Date: 2025Production (role): SLEEPING LIONSCompany: Atar Productions / Mint Pictures / Mister Smith Entertainment / Sky CinemaProject details: Dir. Mat Whitecross
Prod. Rupert Lloyd, Cyrus Massoudi, Fiona Nielson
Starring Jonathan Pryce, Nick Mohammed
Slated for production 2025; release Christmas 2026 -
Date: 2024Production (role): THE LAST MAN IN EUROPECompany: The Lighthouse Film and Television LtdProject details: A feature screenplay dramatising the last years of George Orwell and the writing of Nineteen Eighty-Four
WON: Brit List 2021 -
Date: 2024Production (role): THE FLOODCompany: The Lighthouse Film and Television LtdProject details: A radical reimagining of the Noah's Ark fable. Pilot script and series bible commission.
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Date: 2024Production (role): THE VALECompany: Atar StudiosProject details: An original vampire horror story. Feature screenplay commission.
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Date: 2024Production (role): THE LONG BURNCompany: Freedom ScriptedProject details: TV drama about a team of firefighters whose lives are forged and reforged in the heat of trauma. Series treatment & pilot commission.
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Date: 2024Production (role): CANARIESCompany: Slate EntertainmentProject details: A limited series, state of the nation thriller. Series treatment optioned.
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Date: 2024Production (role): WHEN I WAKECompany: Atar StudiosProject details: A psychological thriller exploring the dangerous line where the human psyche collides with the fast-shifting frontiers of technology and data science. Series treatment optioned.
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Date: 2023Production (role): HOUSE ON FIRECompany: Slate EntertainmentProject details: Series treatment commission. While a cell of radical activists embark on a campaign to save the world from environmental collapse, an altogether stranger apocalypse draws near...
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Date: 2022Production (role): ELECTION!Company: Slate EntertainmentProject details: A political satire dramatising the true story of Martin Bell versus the Hamiltons, based on John Sweeney's non-fiction book Purple Homicide: Fear and Loathing on Knutsford Heath.
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DateProduction (role)CompanyProject details
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Date: 2016Production (role): JUDGE DEE'S MYSTERYCompany: Netflix / 87 Films / Combo Drive Pictures, ChinaProject details: Episode writer & Script Editor
Tang Dynasty detective series adapted from the classic novels by Robert van Gulik; created by showrunners Dudi Appleton & Jim Keeble. Released internationally on Netflix in 2024.