CHRISTOPHER CHANCE - AUTHOR.

ASSASSINS CODE - SPEC SCRIPT.

2015-02-17T11:47:00.002-08:00

This is my current project and I will insert sections of script as I progress.
The formatting doesn't transit from my FINAL DRAFT screenplay application but you can see what is going on so don't comment on the format. Below is the first 4 pages. I hope you like my project.

THE ASSASSINS CODE 1

FADE IN:

EXT. MILITARY TRAINING GROUND - DAY

In the open terrain, artillery shells explode in the

distance. Icy wind sends leaves through the air across the

iron faces of TEN SOLDIERS marching as a squad.

SUPER:

“Military Training Area, Sennelager, Germany 1973”

ARROWSMITH, or “ARROW”, 30, white, leads the squad. 220lbs of

flint-hearted paratrooper and Military Intelligence Officer

wearing the beige beret of the SAS. Geronimo incarnate.

With chiselled good looks and piercing green eyes Arrow looks

back at his men... steel cut confidence on each face.

BARRY “MESSTIN” MESTON, 32, a Combat Engineer marching along;

another big guy with blonde hair under his beret. If eyes are

the window to the soul, this man doesn’t have one. Violence

is just a wrong look away.

They march along the trail into a forest toward a complex of

wooden huts, hidden and protected from the wind by trees.

SERGEANT MAJOR, WINDY GALE, 55, awaits them. Arms akimbo. He

looks like a screaming lunatic, which is exactly what he is.

His facial expression alone can kick your ass.

WINDY GALE

I can’t hear your fucking boots!

Left, right, left, right! Fuck,

fuck, fuck, fuck... Now I hear you.

Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck...

Windy falls in step with the squad. Lowers his voice.

WINDY GALE (CONT’D)

You lot take the piss. Strolling

along like a bunch of fucking

handbags. Wake up! The fucking

general is here today! Farra the

fucking Para is here... Now fucking

brace up! Sqa-a-ad halt!

The squad halts; not a movement or a sound. They wait.

WINDY GALE (CONT’D)

Fall out!

The squad breaks ranks, heads for the wooden building.

Messtin barges through men, muttering.

WINDY GALE (CONT’D)

Stand still!

All ten men stand to attention; motionless, solid.

Windy Gale points his pace-stick at Messtin’s nose.

WINDY GALE (CONT’D)

You fucking great lump of elephant

shit! I oughta shove this right up

your fucking arrogant arse.

Messtin’s eyes narrow, giving him his Great White look.

Windy Gale stares right back - harder.

Neither man intimidated by the other.

WINDY GALE (CONT’D)

You are not allowed to speak to

each other. You are not allowed to

know each other. You are here to be

trained as a secret squirrel. But

you, you big twat, are more like a

secret fucking elephant with a

bull’s-eye on your fucking arse...

And I don’t fucking trust you.

Total silence as Messtin locks eyes with Windy Gale.

MESSTIN

Lucky for you, Sergeant Major, you

don’t have to... nor do any of

these fucking handbags, but I spent

years in the jungle with

Arrowsmith, and I can’t odds that.

I know him.

WINDY GALE

No you fucking don’t! You don’t

know any fucker... no one!

Especially any fucker in this

fucking squad. You don’t know me.

You don’t even know your fucking

self, you shifty bastard... Get

inside and take your seats!

The soldiers double-time into the...

INT. TRAINING WING - DAY - CONTINUOUS

Arrow, Messtin and the eight others sit front row.

FARRA THE PARA, or “FARRA” paces the stage in front of them.

His Parachute Regiment cap badge glints in the light of the

lectern. Serious, stern. Probably pisses paint stripper.

FARRA

You are all aware the Geneva

Convention does not apply to any of

you should you be captured. You

will die a most atrocious death and

be disposed of like a dead dog. No

priest; no last rites, just a hole

in the ground, or a bonfire in an

Irish backyard or bog.

Farra looks down into the iron faces one by one. As each pair

of unblinking eyes meet his, he studies them... Warriors.

FARRA (CONT’D)

You are nearing the end of your

training, so you can all feel good

about surviving this selection

course...

Farra’s words fade into silence. Only moving lips. Arrow’s

eyes glaze over as he loses interest... A load of bollocks.

INT. TRAINING WING OFFICE - DAY

Windy Gale sits behind his desk looking into Arrow’s face. He

shuffles papers, scoops them up, reads them.

WINDY GALE

I’m fucked if I know why you’re

going to Berlin. Above my pay

grade. Anyway, fuck off and good

luck, you’ll fucking need it.

Arrow pockets the papers, heads for the door. He turns back.

ARROW

Why’d you pick on Messtin?

WINDY GALE

‘Cause he’s a prick.

ARROW

(snarls)

Who picks on you, then?

INT/EXT. MAIN RAILWAY STATION (BERLIN) - NIGHT.

The British Military Train pulls into the platform and the

passengers; some in uniform, some in civvies, rush for taxis

as others head for the bars and cafes.

Arrow stands in the carriage doorway looking over the heads

of the crowd to the exit.

MOTHERLAND - SPEC SCRIPT.

2014-06-05T12:26:00.001-07:00

This spec screenplay is ready for development and alterations by prospective prodcos will be welcomed in order to allow transit to the big screen. I am a team player and will be part of the team.

MOTHERLAND.

Logline: When a British agent is assassinated by neo-Nazis, Arrowsmith (his buddy), discovers a plot to use weapons of mass destruction in Syria. ‘Arrow’ and his team foil the plot by killing the Nazis and warning the Pentagon.

***

MOTHERLAND is an Action/Thriller/Suspense story about terrorists and spooks involved in the current Syrian conflict.

A fast moving show about our Secret Service guys living on the edge (of darkness) in the bloodthirsty world of international terrorism, mainly; Hezbollah, neo Nazis and Russian agents.

The good guys are; MOTHERLAND (an ultra-secret branch of the British Secret Service), MOSSAD and the Cousins (CIA); who are all drawn together in the fight to prevent the bombing of Israeli embassies in Europe and the evil intent of a rogue missile attack using chemical weapons in Syria during the G20 Summit Meeting at St. Petersburg in Russia.

Their success in preventing the missile attack costs lives on both sides, but the end justifies the means in their exciting, fast moving endeavour.

Treatment: It's 2013. The political climate in the Middle East is very unstable and the rest of the world isn't much better.

When several influential Jews (rabbis) are assassinated by neo-Nazi terrorists in Berlin, it comes to the attention of the British Secret Service that an infamous Arab bomb maker is working with the Nazis and their agenda is much greater than killing a few rabbis.

This information was discovered by Zac Bleiberg, a Mossad agent seconded to the Brits.

When photos of Nazis were seen to include Saif Al-Adel, the Hezbollah bomb maker, Zac pointed him out and everything changed; it became of international concern.

The subsequent investigation reveals the involvement of the Russians, in the form of Zina Zarubina, a senior Kremlin spy, whose agenda is solely to expedite the diversionary tactics (Israeli embassy bombings) to coincide with the missile attack in Syria and the 2013 G20 Summit in Russia.

But, she has a big problem with Saif Al-Adel, who wants to kill the Brits who 'made' him with the Nazis. He kills Zac in an ambush that starts a car chase in which our protagonist, Arrowsmith, and his team; Ibrahim (a mujahidin warlord), Lily Squires (MI6 operative),Sara “Sticky” Wickett (MI6 operative) and 'Q', Head of Station - Berlin, step up their efforts to neutralize the terrorists.

To replace Zac, Mossad sends Hannah Cohen to Berlin. She (crucially) places a recording device in the terrorists' safe house, but is eventually killed by Saif Al-Adel, but before dying she gives a clue to Lily in her dying breath. Lily, in turn is also shot by the Russians, but passes the clue to Arrowsmith, who eventually finds the recording device and the information is sent through CIA Station - Berlin, to the Pentagon and at the very last moment before launching the rogue missiles, the cavalry arrive in the form of the US Sixth Fleet and its Tomahawk Cruise Missiles take out the rogue missile site in the desert.

The neo-Nazis, used by Zina Zarubina to create the diversion by attacking various Israeli embassies are all killed by their own bombs detonating prematurely, quite spectacularly in various European cities. Several others are killed by the Brits and Saif Al-Adel is killed by Ibrahim.

Zina Zarubina escapes (she's needed in the sequel), but her three henchmen are killed by the Brits. Unfortunately, Sticky Wickett is killed by a car bomb; an assassination attempt on Arrowsmith that went wrong.

A CIA guy named Higgins takes four bullets in the back, but survives... crucially, to provide the key to Arrowsmith’s escape from an assassination by a Russian double agent named Brakken who Arrowsmith kills with his bare hands.

All of this takes place during edge of the seat cloak and dagger action with a thrilling race to the nail biting finish.

This is a very brief treatment, but enough, I hope, to give you the gist of this screenplay wherein lies the thrills and spills; the suspense and drama of a contemporary, original picture of modern day terrorism and its consequences.

BLOWN - SPEC SCRIPT.

2014-06-05T12:15:00.000-07:00

LOGLINE FOR BLOWN.

The initiation of the global jihad ends with the bang that was meant to start it.

"When an undercover agent's deal goes awry with Al Qaida, he finds himself grappling against all odds to foil the terror network's planned assassination of world delegates."

A lone British deep cover agent (MI6), posing as a drug runner is blackmailed by Al Qaida into smuggling terrorists into Europe. He must foil their assassination plot to kill top international government officials attending the Industrial World Fair, thereby preventing a global jihad. An action packed journey into the underbelly of terrorism and drug smuggling.

SHORT TREATMENT FOR BLOWN.

A successful hashish smuggler, CASH BEASANT, comes to the attention of AQIM (Al Qaida Islamic Mahgreb), operating in North Africa. They blackmail CASH into smuggling terrorists from Africa into Europe in order to assassinate the German Chancellor, the Chinese Premier and other World Leaders attending the Hanover Messe 2012, the world’s largest Industrial Fair.

The assassination plot was planned by the Russians and Hezbollah. Double agent Shiites infiltrate the Sunni Muslim Wahhabi Sect in order to shift the blame of the assassinations to the Sunnis, who are unaware of the true targets, which include the King of Morocco.

The terrorist connection with senior police and immigration officers creates even more intrigue when the DST (Moroccan Counter Intelligence) becomes involved when they learn of the attempt on the King's life.

The intrigue starts on a remote beach in Morocco and continues to Spain; Tangier, Casablanca, Nador, back to Spain and then to Amsterdam, culminating in Hanover, where all the surviving players die... except Cash, who is revealed at the end as being a deep cover agent for the British Secret Service (MI6).

Each leg of the journey contains a loss of life incident, but the violence ends on a high note with the reunion of Cash with his sweetheart, CARMEN, who he thought was killed by his captors.

I AM NOW REPRESENTED.

2014-06-05T12:11:00.000-07:00

I am now represented and my agent is Rebecca Watson at the Valerie Hoskins Associates, London.

I am really pleased about my change of luck.

THE ASSASSIN'S CODE 1. (Synopsis).

2010-08-20T08:14:00.000-07:00

THE ASSASSIN’S CODE 1.
Synopsis by Christopher Chance of his novel of 88,277 words.
This synopsis contains 1,150 words.

A British Secret Service agent is urgently required to infiltrate a terrorist gun running and drug dealing organisation.
The Secret Service is choc full of ex-public schoolboy operatives who are totally unsuited to the task of socialising and dealing with the underclass of heroin dealers and urban terrorists. Good men die trying.
From the other side of the tracks comes, up-through-the-ranks military spook, ARROWSMITH, a flint-hearted Anglo-Saxon who finds himself plucked out of a cadre of undercover operatives training in Germany and inserted into the intrigue of the Joint Services Intelligence Wing at the military HQ in Berlin.
Arrowsmith is under the command of Q, the senior intelligence officer whose office intercepts global intelligence information through various nefarious means and is able to operate outside of normal British Government boundaries and restrictions.
Seemingly unaccountable, Q relentlessly pursues terrorist organisations without the shackles of ministerial control. Q selects Arrowsmith to infiltrate the inner sanctums of terrorist groups as an arms and drugs dealer because he is a proven specimen of strength, endurance and mental agility in the field of shadows. Q also knows about Arrowsmith’s childhood friend, ABDULLA HABIBULLA, who is a Mujahideen warlord, trading heroin and arms in and out of Afghanistan.
Enter KATE MULCAHY, a senior Secret Intelligence Service officer with a wealth of female international intelligence contacts, a priceless asset in the war against the narco-terrorist, a dedicated agent with talented linguistic skills and a hard attitude to all things masculine, whose lesbian traits are crushed by ‘Arrow’ Arrowsmith’s beautiful masculinity. She imparts the secrets of her Zoroastrian ancestry and teaches Arrowsmith secret codes to ensure his safe passage through the mountain passes and primitive trails of the arms and drugs brigands.
Kate’s feelings for Arrow escalate rapidly as they work together along the learning curve of the international secret agent.
Part of his induction into the higher echelons of the Secret Service is joining the VRK Secret Sect, which is a nucleus of Intelligence from which all other departments and agencies are influenced. VRK means Very Restricted Knowledge and the sect is an offshoot from the Brotherhood of Freemasons. Arrowsmith attends his initiation ceremony in the crypt of the Berlin HQ to become a Knight Assassin.
After the ceremony Kate’s affections blossom and their relationship deepens. Eventually, she trusts him implicitly and imparts her knowledge of the precious contacts essential in their cloak and dagger world.
A defecting double agent from East Germany causes a minor hiccup in Arrow’s training so Q tests him and tasks him to deal with the agent. Arrow suffers the loss of a beautiful colleague as he kills the double agent. Arrow returns to West Berlin to learn about his insertion into the terrorist strongholds.
Through the network of terrorists, arms dealers and drug barons; a complicated plot is hatched so the groups involved will get their arms, drugs and money to support their cause. The plot involves ETA; Black September, Mafia, Mujahideen, IRA and Mu’ammar al-Qadhafi.
HANNAH COHEN, a beautiful Shin Bet (Mossad) operator, passes information to Kate Mulcahy regarding the terrorist plot. This raw intelligence enables Q to organise and insert the brazen impostor, Arrowsmith; who successfully infiltrates the organisation and trades heroin and arms with ETA, Black September, Mujahideen and IRA with the help of his warlord friend, Abdulla Habibulla, who also provides a guide on arrival in Peshawar.
IBRAHIM, a Warrior of the Islamic Order of Chivalry (FUTWWA), no less. A brave, experienced assassin, educated at Oxford is assigned to help Arrow in his endeavours. Ibrahim proves his worth in different guises and stays with Arrow till the end.
Arrowsmith’s task is to smuggle 500kg of pure heroin from Afghanistan through Pakistan and on through the Suez Canal to rendezvous with the Claudia, the famous IRA ship captured with tons of weapons and Joe Cahill, the IRA supremo onboard.
The KGB wrongly suspect Arrow’s cargo of heroin is to finance arms for the Mujahideen, so they set about to scupper his yacht in the Arabian Sea. One of Arrow’s crew members is a British double agent working with the KGB. He is assassinated by Hannah Cohen, the Mossad agent, who replaces him as a crew member. She stays on board and witnesses the transferring of the heroin onto the Claudia at the rendezvous somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea. Also, on entering Tripoli harbour, Arrow meets two Arabs. Hannah Cohen recognises two high-ranking members of Black September: MAHMUD YUSSUF NAJJER and ZAID MUCHASSI, both on the Mossad ‘Most Wanted’ list, talking with Arrow. (Later, in real life; both these men were assassinated by Mossad).
Hannah Cohen is whisked away by Mossad, leaving Arrow and Ibrahim to sail the yacht to Gibraltar where Arrow recruits an old pal as a crew member, BRIAN FLYNN. Flynnie also stays with Arrow till the end.
Before leaving Tripoli, there is a change of plan. The arms will remain in Tripoli and be loaded onto the Claudia while Arrow takes £2 million to Ireland. The money is the change from the arms deal with MOHAMMED BOUDIA who loads the money onto Arrow’s yacht. Boudia is one of the top men in Black September. (Later, in real life, Mossad’s Wrath of God squad assassinate him in Paris.)
As they cast off in Tripoli harbour, the two Arabs, Muchassi and Yussuf arrive with two female terrorists. The terrorists jump onboard as the Arabs drive away. After disarming them, Arrow reluctantly agrees to take one to Morocco and the other to Ireland. During the journey both girls end up in the sea before reaching their destination.
After picking up Flynnie in Gibraltar, Arrow puts in to Kinsale harbour and begins the Irish adventure by contacting the IRA to inform them of the £2 million. The Claudia, with tons of weapons and Joe Cahill on board had been arrested at sea, so the money is a big surprise. Eventually, Arrow is accepted into the High Command of the IRA and is instrumental in the planning of future operations: just what Q had planned.
Much of the adventure takes place in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Ireland, and Libya and on the high seas. The action is violent, sexy and intriguing. The characters are captivating; alluring and in places, real: though the real ones die a violent death.
The story is based on actual events but is manipulated to induce a compelling read. It ends with Arrowsmith being accepted into the inner sanctum of the terrorist organisation as a hero and as an arms and drugs trader involved in the planning of future terrorist activity.
Q is delighted with his success at placing Arrowsmith at the centre of things and is excited with the prospect of further adventures in the world of international terrorism.
Arrow is his new secret weapon, planning his next moves.

Treatment for: IN THE MOUTH OF THE BEAST.

2010-08-14T06:55:00.000-07:00

SHORT TREATMENT/SYNOPSIS – ‘IN THE MOUTH OF THE BEAST’.

A true story of survival in the most sinister prison in Europe: the Carabanchel.
Lone foreigners in a Spanish prison unite against murderous gypsies using violent martial arts and low cunning in order to survive.
Christopher Chance, the last Brit to be held in that infamous Spanish hellhole, gathers around him a band of international villains; men from all around the world who unite, regardless of colour or creed to defend themselves against the constant aggression from mindless psychopaths, gypsies and brutal prison officers.
Chance is ultra-violent in his quest to survive, and teaches his band of brothers the killing and maiming techniques of the ancient martial art of ju-jitsu.
Lone foreigners; men of violence, are drawn to Chance as they witness the terrible strikes and nerve-wrecking locks and chokes he uses to retaliate against his aggressors who are no match against the flint-hearted Anglo-Saxon.
Chance’s gang are invincible in this cauldron of hate and fear; their numbers are few but their strength lies in the loyalty and respect they have for each other, combined with their courage and fighting skills.
Chance is busy forging strong international business contacts and planning further drug trafficking adventures on the high seas with a high-ranking Spanish official and a senior prison officer who make life easier for him: a ruse to gain privileges from his jailers.
They are instrumental in appointing him as the prison martial arts instructor; the most dangerous job in the prison, but one he relishes. This job provides much in the way of privileges alongside danger and intrigue.
His band of brothers, known as the Mezclado, the Spanish word for mixture, are each experienced professional criminals, yet each of them abide by a code of honour and are proud of their professions; an Iranian hit-man, a Mafioso hit-man, a Chinese heroin trafficker, a Trinidadian high seas smuggler and an Afghan Mujahideen warlord, amongst others. They are all very different but gel together to make a most formidable team and a friendship that lasts beyond the closing of the Carabanchel prison in Madrid. Their individual stories unfold as they journey through their sentences in the mouth of the masonry beast called Carabanchel.
The action remains unremittingly confined to the brutal; right from day one when Chance is arrested and pistol-whipped by five secret policemen who handcuff him and then break his nose, ribs and most of his teeth before he enters the Carabanchel prison.
His induction into the prison is heralded by screaming, truncheon wielding prison officers whose hostility continues right up to the final day when he is hauled out of that terrible place and the prison is closed forever and demolished in an effort to erase the national shame of the place. But, like Belsen and Alcatraz, it will never be forgotten, especially by Christopher Chance: the last Englishman to be held in Satan’s arena.
Copyright © Christopher Chance, 2010.

Logline for my screenplay.

2010-07-06T08:17:00.000-07:00

After scrolling through many screenplay forums and getting ideas for my logline, I decided to use the titles of two terrific movies in my logline because my screenplay has similarities to both movies.
My screenplay is an adaptation of one of my books - CARABANCHEL. The title of my screenplay is - IN THE MOUTH OF THE BEAST. My logline is: THE NEW MIDNIGHT EXPRESS PULLS INTO SHAWSHANK. I will be posting the Treatment/Synopsis later this week That will give a good indication as to why I concocted the logline.

This spec script is now optioned. Screenplays on my website.