Screenwriter

Elevated thrillers grounded in human stakes, hidden systems and impossible choices.

Featured Projects

Exfil

Action Thriller

When terrorists take his six-year-old son, an ordinary father does the only thing he can. He goes in after him.

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Endura

thriller suspense

The system deciding who escapes a dying world was never meant to be found. Sixteen-year-old Kyro Hale just found it. And his missing father is at the center of it.

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Ghostwriter

psychological mystery thriller

All Maeve Sinclair wants is to find her son. First she has to finish the assignment. Then she has to survive what comes next.

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development & recognition

Professional headshot of Brett Wickman, black and white.

industry recognition

  • Savior - Outstanding Screenplays Feature Competition Quarterfinalist

  • Exfil - Stage 32 Double Recommended (2025)

  • Ghostwriter - Stage 32 Double Recommended (2026)

  • Exfil and Ghostwriter featured in the Stage 32 Lookbook

  • Follow-up material requested by a major production company after unsolicited read

  • Projects submitted to major production companies

Current focus

  • Elevated Thrillers

  • Psychological Suspense

  • Sci-fi Grounded in Human Stakes

  • Horror

  • Character-driven high-concept storytelling

the slate

Poster for GHOSTWRITER, a psychological supernatural thriller featuring a lone writer in a dark office overlooking a city at night.
Poster for SEVENTEEN, a psychological suspense thriller centered around a fertility clinic conspiracy.
Poster for DEPTH PERCEPTION, a psychological thriller exploring perception, paranoia, and hidden truths.
Poster for the movie 'Exfil' showing a man with dirt on his face and clothes holding a rifle, walking in a desert with a young boy, against a background of a castle on a hill and ruins, with the text 'How far would you go to save your child?'
Poster for SAVIOR, a sci-fi medical thriller featuring two characters against the Boston skyline.
Teaser poster for NOR'EASTER, an upcoming project in development by Brett Wickman
A group of five people, including two young girls, a young man, an older woman, and an older man, standing outdoors in a stormy landscape with lightning in the sky behind them. The title 'Endura' is displayed at the bottom.
Poster for TERROR FORMED, a large-scale sci-fi thriller set on a dangerous and rapidly collapsing Mars colony.

Current Projects

Feature screenplays in progress.

Herculaneum poster: a Roman soldier overlooks the harbor as Mount Vesuvius erupts above the city.