Film & television
The slate
Every series is available for adaptation. Rights are held by the author, and no options have been granted.
The Inheritance Trilogy
The Samhain Legacy
Project 01
A New Yorker inherits a Welsh manor built on an ancient stone circle, and learns his bloodline makes him part of a 2,000-year-old secret order whose enemies have already started killing.
- Format
- Returning drama · 3 seasons × 6 hours
- Genre
- Supernatural mystery thriller, with folk horror
- Comparable to
- Outlander meets The Da Vinci Code, with the chill of The Third Day
- Locations
- New York · Anglesey, North Wales · the American Midwest
- Production
- Welsh production support (Creative Wales, S4C); natural UK–US co-production
- Status
- Trilogy complete · published 2013
A paranormal thriller series
Astral Encounters
Project 02
A terrorist bomb kills a grieving father’s wife and leaves shrapnel lodged by his brain, unlocking the power to leave his body. Now an FBI agent with something to prove needs that power to stop the next attack.
- Format
- Returning drama · 8 × 60 per season
- Genre
- Paranormal action thriller
- Comparable to
- Homeland meets Heroes, with the drive of The Dead Zone
- Locations
- Los Angeles · the California coast · San Francisco · Cheshire, England
- Production
- British lead in America; natural UK–US co-production
- Status
- Two novels: From Your Tethered Body (2016) and Astral Terror
Unpublished · a vampire saga in two centuries
Deliver Us from Evil
Project 03
A drought drains a reservoir above Marbella and uncovers a drowned village. In its flooded crypt, a vampire who has slept since the Napoleonic Wars wakes hungry, and the only man who can see him for what he is never knew whose blood runs in his veins.
- Format
- Returning drama · 2 seasons × 8 × 60
- Genre
- Supernatural thriller with a Napoleonic period strand
- Comparable to
- Interview with the Vampire meets Master and Commander, with the Church-versus-darkness of Evil
- Locations
- Marbella and the Costa del Sol · Anglesey · Gibraltar · Oxford and London · the Mediterranean, 1807
- Production
- Spanish and Welsh production incentives; a natural UK–Spain co-production
- Status
- Complete novel in manuscript · not yet published
The pitch pack
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The pitch pack includes the series bible, season-by-season arcs, how each story ends, and character breakdowns. It’s shared on request with producers, development executives and agents.
Enquiries are handled by Philip's daughter on behalf of the author.
Email rights@philipmaxwell.com
All titles are self-published by the author under the Qualitas imprint. The author holds all film, television and dramatic rights.