Russell Knight is an award-winning screenwriter based just west of London. His work focuses on grounded, character-led stories that deal with trauma, fractured families, and people pushed to the edge, often with a strong twist that redefines what’s come before.He writes with an eye for tension, subtext, and emotional weight, blending genre elements with realism to keep the work engaging but rooted in truth. His scripts are written with production in mind: lean, focused, and built to be made.Whether writing drama, thriller, horror, or something in between, his aim is simple, to tell stories that stay with you.
Feature
in development with producers
Following the release of her sister’s abuser, and over one long night shift, an apathetic London detective must overcome a vengeful police inspector, internal investigations, and the doldrums of midlife, to track him down before her fragile personal life is caused irreparable damage.
Feature
in development with producers
Following the death of his brother, a dismayed young man seeks acceptance from his estranged father on an ill-advised sailing trip, and finds himself embroiled in the lethal world of international smuggling.
Feature
A military logistics specialist wakes alone on a barren world with no memory of how she got there. With limited oxygen and sparse supplies, she must battle the hostile terrain to unravel the secrets of the planet and the intentions of those who sent her.
Feature
After her father is presumed dead, an anxious mother must return to his isolated island home to settle his estate, but the further she strays into the villagers’ customs, the more she uncovers a brutal trauma long buried.
1 hour pilot
An honourable criminal struggling to cope with the loss of his family and a London detective who risks her pregnancy to track him down must join forces to locate a mysterious object with the potential to uncover corruption in Scotland Yard reaching into the heart of UK politics.
Short
In the lawless Cape Flats, a young man risks everything to restore his brother’s mobility, only to discover that some things are better left broken.
Short
A young British Muslim must overcome social bias to fulfil his destiny on the London Underground.