Emmanuel Oberg
Adaptation of the novel by Ian Beck (2009)
Writers: Emmanuel Oberg and John McKay
Producer: Paul Brooks for Gold Circle Films
Genre: Sci-Fi / Action / Adventure
Status: in development (revised 3rd draft)
Logline: What if all of London were really an amusement park – a whole city returned to Victorian times to entertain visitors from the twenty-first century? That’s the wildly original premise of Ian Beck’s Pastworld, a high-stakes mystery set in a simulated past.
Original screenplay
Writer: Emmanuel Oberg
Producer: spec script
Genre: Action Thriller in 3D
Status: in development (revised first draft)
Logline: a London CO19 cop has 85 minutes to save his daughter who thinks she’s playing a state-of-the-art augmented reality video game, but is in fact killing people in the real world, causing utter chaos in the city…
Remake of the French comedy Faites Sauter la Banque! by Jean Girault (1964)
Writers: Emmanuel Oberg and John McKay
Producer: Optimum Releasing / StudioCanal
Genre: Comedy
Status: in development (revised 2nd draft)
Summary of the original movie: Shopkeeper Victor Garnier has naively invested his family’s life savings in an African mine, on his banker’s recommendation. When the mine is nationalized, rendering the stock worthless, he considers himself shamelessly robbed by the bank; it seems only fair to him to return the ‘favor’ and rob the bank, teaming up with the whole family as they were all duped. Even for professionals such an enterprise -he decides to dig a tunnel- is quite demanding, but for simple commoners it’s daunting, as they also have their personal downsides; thus Victor’s wife has a most unwelcome tendency to blurt out the truth, even to the grumpy local copper: a crazy risk when you need to keep a criminal plan secret.
Original screenplay
Writers: John McKay and Emmanuel Oberg
Producers: Lee Thomas and Donald De Line for Warner Bros
Genre: Action/Adventure
Status: in turnaround (revised 3rd draft)
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Adaptation of the novel by David Mitchell (2001), set in Japan
Writer: Emmanuel Oberg
Producer: Lee Thomas / Pipedream Pictures
Executive Producer: Paul Webster / Shoe Box
Genre: Yakusa thriller
Status: in development (revised first draft)
Summary of the novel: David Mitchell’s second novel, number9dream, uses a similar episodic format to his brilliant debut Ghostwritten to create a coherent and assured narrative that is part yakusa thriller, part coming-of-age story. Eiji Miyake, 20, naïve and wholly loveable, encounters a frantic, exotic world when he comes to Tokyo from his small island home to find the father he has never met.
Original screenplay
Writer: Emmanuel Oberg
Producer: spec script
Genre: Action Romantic Comedy
Status: in development (revised 4th draft)
Logline: Robin Hood Prince of Thieves meets Being John Malkovich
Paris, 2020. A right wing extremist is ruling the country, pushing homeless people and illegal immigrants outside the city. Robert, a young and shy student, turns into an improbable leader of the resistance, thanks to Robin Hood…
Short film (7’56, 35mm, 1.85, Dolby SR, French with English subtitles)
Cast: Pascale ARBILLOT, Michael COHEN and Frederic MICHELOT
Writer/director: Emmanuel Oberg
Producer: Marc Barbault & Emmanuel Oberg / Debsie Films
Awards: 11 inluding the 21st Century Filmmaker award in New-York
TV-Sales: 18 countries worldwide, including Canal+ in France and Belgium, PBS in the US (New York and Los Angeles), TV-Man Union in Japan…
Released theatrically: in France and in Germany
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