Ben Davis

Action-comedies, mental health stories (specifically bipolar), and Big Short'esque drama/comedies about hyper specific historical events from 1960 to present day. I'm interested in meeting with all kinds of writers, but have a passion for mental health so any writers with that background would be welcomed too. However, that's not a prerequisite for me! Really just hoping to find some scripts I connect with. Aiming to find a sub 5 million script I can try and set up for me to direct. I'm fairly genre agnostic -- theme matters a lot to me. What the story is actually about. Genre tends to be more window dressing and play accessories. For instance, right now I'm working on a music-comedy about 19th century literary figures, a sci-fi adventure about life on the moon, and a horror-satire about a snowy thanksgiving gone wrong! I spent three years developing and writing a movie about the college kid who invented the first computer worm and his dad who was the head of cyber security at the NSA. It was a hyper-specific and little known true story about the early internet in the 80s that we gave a sort of John Hughes meets The Big Short treatment too. I really loved that project and it'd be fun to find another real like story like that or even like Damon and Affleck's AIR to support and work on.