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Christian Lybrook

Repped By: Nolan Heimann

After living in Africa, Alaska, Scotland, New England, and Idaho, television and feature writer Christian Lybrook found his wheelhouse writing dark genre pieces set in uncommon locales.

His western crime drama Scarred Land (formerly titled Branded) was a featured project at Trans Atlantic Partners, and is in development with producers Eagle Vision (Canada) and Noah Lang.

His feature-length thriller screenplay Dead Don’t Speak was selected for the Frontieres and FIN Partners co-production markets and is currently in development with director Justin Oakley (A Fire in the Cold Season) and Marvista Entertainment. Lybrook’s crime drama series, Zaire, inspired by a true story about an American ex-pat and his ever-escalating illegal endeavors in the Congo in the 1970s, is in development with Emmy-Nominee Jeff Most’s Most Media (The Crow, Viaplay’s Professionals).

Christian is a Fellow of The Gotham’s (formerly IFP) Episodic Lab, Cinestory’s TV Writers Retreat, and the. Plume & Pellicule Screenwriting residency in Sierre, Switzerland. His pilot for the pre-apocalyptic thriller Zero Point (co-created with Gregory Bayne) was selected the first-ever Tribeca Film Festival’s Digital Creators Market and later premiered at the festival.

He is a member of the Screenwriting Faculty at the Jacob Krueger Studio, where he works one-on-one with screenwriters of all levels.

MY RATINGS & AWARDS -44 Awards

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MY SUCCESS

IN GOD WE RUST Optioned

By: Christian Lybrook

Producer Noah Lang ("The Climb") has optioned Christian Lybrook's thriller script IN GOD WE RUST. The story centers around a missing $7 million gold coin. 20 years after the robbery, the architect of the heist races to find the missing coin before his murderous accomplice, freshly released from prison, exacts revenge on everyone involved.

Christian Lybrook Hired to Write Biopic

By: Christian Lybrook

Screenwriter Christian Lybrook has been hired to write a biopic about a millennial bitcoin multimillionaire and the breathless run-up to bitcoin hitting nearly $20,000 in the winter of 2017. Other details about the project remain under wraps, but the script is expected to be finished in early 2021.

DEAD DON'T SPEAK Optioned by Witchcraft Motion Picture Company

By: Christian Lybrook

Christian Lybrook's 1950s thriller feature script DEAD DON'T SPEAK has been optioned by producer Noah Lang ("The Climb") with the Witchcraft Motion Picture Company. The script, about an obsessive deputy’s investigation into a history of abducted girls in a small ranching town is slated to bring production in the summer of 2021 with Canadian director Justin Oakey ("Fire in a Cold Season") on board to direct.

Tags: Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition, Nicholl Fellowship, Austin Film Festival Script Competition

"Dead Don't Speak" selected for Frontières International Co-Pro Market

By: Christian Lybrook

Christian Lybrook's period thriller script "Dead Don't Speak" is one of 20 selections for the 2020 Frontières International Co-Production Market. The film is being produced by Noah Lang ("The Climb", "The Strange Ones") and is being directed by director Justin Oakley ("Fire in a Cold Season"). Production is slated to begin in Canada in the fall of 2020.

Tags: Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition, Nicholl Fellowship, Austin Film Festival Script Competition

BRANDED TV Series Optioned by the Hexagon Initiative

By: Christian Lybrook

Screenwriter Christian Lybrook's contemporary western crime drama series BRANDED (aka "Scarred Land") has been optioned by the Hexagon Initiative and is in development with Canadian production company Eagle Vision. The series follows the murder investigation of a prominent ranching family when their cattle are found skinned alive. The investigation uncovers ties to a secretive, militarized religious sect that shuns the police, banks and hospitals to protect their way of life—and punish those who turn against them.

Tags: CineStory T V / Digital Retreat & Fellowship, New York Television Festival (NYTVF), ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship

MY SCREENPLAYS -41 Awards

Branded (10)

Optioned

Branded

Category: TV Pilot

Genre: Western, Drama, Crime

Rudy Strom, a disgraced ex-state trooper turned cattle cop, is pulled into police detective Isabela Quintana’s murder investigation of a prominent ranching family when their cattle are found skinned alive.

Official Selection

City Of Trees (14)

Available

City Of Trees

Category: Feature

Genre: Drama

A struggling writer returns to his hometown to care for his dying mother, but a rekindled romance with his now-married high school sweetheart and the return of his black-sheep brother resurrect long-buried secrets that threaten to undo the family.

Category Winner

Dead Don't Speak (3)

Optioned

Dead Don't Speak

Category: Feature

Genre: Western, Drama, Crime

When a young woman goes missing from a 1950s ranching town, an obsessive deputy’s investigation leads to a history of abducted girls and forces the deputy to confront her own complicated past. COMPS: Silence of the Lambs, Zodiac

Quarter Finalist

Ecco, Idaho (11)

Available

Ecco, Idaho

Category: TV Pilot (One-hour)

Genre: Science Fiction, Mystery/Suspense, Drama

On the dusty outskirts of Eisenhower’s America, a failed geophysicist and a teenage rebel outcast stumble into greatest technology race the world has ever known when the girl’s best friend vanishes off the face of the planet. COMPS: Dark (Germany), Stranger Things

In God We Rust (0)

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In God We Rust

Category: Feature

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

20 years after a robbery gone wrong, the architect of the heist races to find the missing $7 million gold coin before his murderous accomplice, freshly released from prison, exacts revenge on everyone involved.

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