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Jordan Baines

Screenwriter

Biography

Jordan is a freelance writer, ghostwriter, and editor, including adaptations and localization work. 

Update: David Allen of Once Upon A Dream Productions optioned Jordan's feature script Last Flag on Oak Island for audio production! Out on Apple, Spotify, Megaphone, Audible, and iHeart (https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-podplays-79665746/episode/the-last-flag-on-oak-island-91444691/). Other rights available.

Please see * below for Jordan's role in editing/proofreading, formating, and collaborating on scripts in many genres.

Profiles on Upwork and other freelance sites. Most work is under ghostwriting NDA, but some detail can be supplied by request.

THE WANDERING EARTH by Liu Cixin (now with TOR Books). Jordan edited the English version of this collection; released Feb. 5, 2019 as a blockbuster movie of the same name (https://pro.imdb.com/title/tt7605074; *as editor https://www.amazon.com/Wandering-Earth-Classic-Science-Collection/dp/1489502858). 

GUILTY OF MIND / EVIL MINDS: *Edited Lei Mi translated Chinese-to-English novels for Beijing Guomi Digital Technology Co., Ltd., which were made into the TV series EVIL MINDS in China (2015-2016, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5733054/), and also the crime thriller film GUILTY OF MIND in 2017 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7232860/). *Edited translated novels by Lei Mi and THE WANDERING EARTH sci-fi series by Liu Cixin (listed above) for Beijing Guomi Digital Technology Co., Ltd. 

BLACK COAL, THIN ICE: As a freelancer, formatted and edited the English version screenplay and worked from writer/director Yinan Diao's notes (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3469910/, uncredited). Winner of multiple international film awards, including the final Chinese version winning the Golden Bear award at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. 

CONTEST WINNING SCREENPLAY (Drama/Historical): Collaboration (as a freelancer, NDA, no credit, *details upon request). A suspense/drama that has won and placed in numerous contests, including: 

2016 Screenplay Festival 

2017 Universe Multicultural Film Festival 

2017 New York Short Film & Screenplay Competition 

2017 Universe Multicultural Film Festival 

2017 NOVA Fest 

2018 Williamsburg Intl. Film & Music Competition

2019 Loudoun Film Festival Best Screenplay (over 20 pages)

2019 European Screen Award, Season 2, Silver, Feature Script

2019 RIFF Quarterfinals, Feature

Sizzle reel from collaborator: https://vimeo.com/298508334 


Jordan has also written feature-length screenplays, half-hour pilots, one-hour drama pilots, series mini-bibles, and script treatments, and adapted novels to screenplays and scripts to novels.

LAST FLAG ON OAK ISLAND is a high concept mystery/thriller/drama screenplay based on Oak Island, Nova Scotia, Canada's real treasure hunt dating from 1795 (The History Channel's reality/drama series THE CURSE OF OAK ISLAND features the notorious hunt). This screenplay is adapted from my original novel LAST ASSAULT ON OAK ISLAND. An earlier version of this screenplay (titled LAST ASSAULT ON THE MONEY PIT, WGA-West) reached the semi-finals at the 1995 Writers Network Screenplay & Fiction Competition and the novel manuscript and screenplay made the semi-finals of the 1995 Writers Film Project. Script revised with feedback from The Black List. (From Jenn Rekka's Rediscovered series.) 

Currently revising the screenplay to ROOM OF FIRE (second in the Rediscovered series). An earlier version of this screenplay (titled THE FIRE CHAMBER, WGA-West) reached the semi-finals at the 1996 Writers Network Screenplay & Fiction Competition and the novel manuscript made the quarter-finals of the 1997 Writers Network Screenplay & Fiction Competition. This and other Rediscovered titles are being written into a series.

DEAD STATES: REMNANT, a YA survival/post-disaster off-grid TV series featuring teens for dramatic use. From the Dead States series. Pilot and Mini Bible for three seasons, including technical information, is available.

NOT ANOTHER VAMPIRE STORY is adapted from a high concept, humorous middle grade/YA novella written by Sakurapu. 

THE GEPETTO PROTOCOL is a superhero/comic/manga/anime-style humor screenplay for five leads suitable for PG audiences. Current Logline: Five pop culture concepts learn they have ten days to become real or be lost forever after their last creator dies. [Colonel Max "Shredder" Schroeder is a soldier's soldier, a man of action and military savvy. He awakes in a field after his last mission with one thing on his mind: his next mission. According to the voice in his head (or chest), his new team is made up of Bobbie, Widow, Suzuka, and Crash. He sets out to find them. Five hundred miles, one name change, a biker bar fight, and one unpaid motel night settled with a wounded ego later, Max drives fashion doll Bobbie's Jeep of odds and ends friends to the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo—where they fit right in with the cosplayers—and learn they are not real.]

Jordan is a freelance writer, ghostwriter, and editor, including adaptations and localization work. 

Update: David Allen of Once Upon A Dream Productions optioned Jordan's feature script Last Flag on Oak Island for audio production! Out on Apple, Spotify, Megaphone, Audible, and iHeart (https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-podplays-79665746/episode/the-last-flag-on-oak-island-91444691/). Other rights available.

Please see * below for Jordan's role in editing/proofreading, formating, and collaborating on scripts in many genres.

Profiles on Upwork and other freelance sites. Most work is under ghostwriting NDA, but some detail can be supplied by request.

THE WANDERING EARTH by Liu Cixin (now with TOR Books). Jordan edited the English version of this collection; released Feb. 5, 2019 as a blockbuster movie of the same name (https://pro.imdb.com/title/tt7605074; *as editor https://www.amazon.com/Wandering-Earth-Classic-Science-Collection/dp/1489502858). 

GUILTY OF MIND / EVIL MINDS: *Edited Lei Mi translated Chinese-to-English novels for Beijing Guomi Digital Technology Co., Ltd., which were made into the TV series EVIL MINDS in China (2015-2016, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5733054/), and also the crime thriller film GUILTY OF MIND in 2017 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7232860/). *Edited translated novels by Lei Mi and THE WANDERING EARTH sci-fi series by Liu Cixin (listed above) for Beijing Guomi Digital Technology Co., Ltd. 

BLACK COAL, THIN ICE: As a freelancer, formatted and edited the English version screenplay and worked from writer/director Yinan Diao's notes (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3469910/, uncredited). Winner of multiple international film awards, including the final Chinese version winning the Golden Bear award at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. 

CONTEST WINNING SCREENPLAY (Drama/Historical): Collaboration (as a freelancer, NDA, no credit, *details upon request). A suspense/drama that has won and placed in numerous contests, including: 

2016 Screenplay Festival 

2017 Universe Multicultural Film Festival 

2017 New York Short Film & Screenplay Competition 

2017 Universe Multicultural Film Festival 

2017 NOVA Fest 

2018 Williamsburg Intl. Film & Music Competition

2019 Loudoun Film Festival Best Screenplay (over 20 pages)

2019 European Screen Award, Season 2, Silver, Feature Script

2019 RIFF Quarterfinals, Feature

Sizzle reel from collaborator: https://vimeo.com/298508334 


Jordan has also written feature-length screenplays, half-hour pilots, one-hour drama pilots, series mini-bibles, and script treatments, and adapted novels to screenplays and scripts to novels.

LAST FLAG ON OAK ISLAND is a high concept mystery/thriller/drama screenplay based on Oak Island, Nova Scotia, Canada's real treasure hunt dating from 1795 (The History Channel's reality/drama series THE CURSE OF OAK ISLAND features the notorious hunt). This screenplay is adapted from my original novel LAST ASSAULT ON OAK ISLAND. An earlier version of this screenplay (titled LAST ASSAULT ON THE MONEY PIT, WGA-West) reached the semi-finals at the 1995 Writers Network Screenplay & Fiction Competition and the novel manuscript and screenplay made the semi-finals of the 1995 Writers Film Project. Script revised with feedback from The Black List. (From Jenn Rekka's Rediscovered series.) 

Currently revising the screenplay to ROOM OF FIRE (second in the Rediscovered series). An earlier version of this screenplay (titled THE FIRE CHAMBER, WGA-West) reached the semi-finals at the 1996 Writers Network Screenplay & Fiction Competition and the novel manuscript made the quarter-finals of the 1997 Writers Network Screenplay & Fiction Competition. This and other Rediscovered titles are being written into a series.

DEAD STATES: REMNANT, a YA survival/post-disaster off-grid TV series featuring teens for dramatic use. From the Dead States series. Pilot and Mini Bible for three seasons, including technical information, is available.

NOT ANOTHER VAMPIRE STORY is adapted from a high concept, humorous middle grade/YA novella written by Sakurapu. 

THE GEPETTO PROTOCOL is a superhero/comic/manga/anime-style humor screenplay for five leads suitable for PG audiences. Current Logline: Five pop culture concepts learn they have ten days to become real or be lost forever after their last creator dies. [Colonel Max "Shredder" Schroeder is a soldier's soldier, a man of action and military savvy. He awakes in a field after his last mission with one thing on his mind: his next mission. According to the voice in his head (or chest), his new team is made up of Bobbie, Widow, Suzuka, and Crash. He sets out to find them. Five hundred miles, one name change, a biker bar fight, and one unpaid motel night settled with a wounded ego later, Max drives fashion doll Bobbie's Jeep of odds and ends friends to the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo—where they fit right in with the cosplayers—and learn they are not real.]

Projects (8)

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FLIGHT OF THE HEN GLIDERS
Feature
  • Adventure .
  • Animation .
  • Family
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THE GEPETTO PROTOCOL
Feature
  • Children .
  • Comedy .
  • Family
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0 Award
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REDISCOVERED - Rumors of Amber - Series Pilot
Spec Pilot
  • Drama .
  • Historical .
  • Mystery/Suspense
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DEAD STATES (Series Pilot: END OF TIME)
Spec Pilot
  • Drama .
  • Family .
  • Young Adult
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0 Award
Watch Video
Available

Education

UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA
The Production Guild of Great Britain
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