John Fusco

John Fusco is an American screenwriter, producer, and television series creator born in Prospect, Connecticut. His screenplays include Crossroads, Young Guns, Young Guns II, Thunderheart, Hidalgo, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron and The Highwaymen. He is also the creator of the Netflix series Marco Polo. Fusco is also a blues musician and a prose fiction author. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Fusco, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Young Guns

A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. But when Billy takes their authority too far, they become the hunted.

Release Date1988-08-12

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count988

Marco Polo

Set in a world of greed, betrayal, sexual intrigue and rivalry, this lavish drama series follows explorer Marco Polo's adventures in the 13th century.

Release Date2014-12-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Vote Count571

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron

A captured mustang remains determined to return to his herd no matter what.

Release Date2002-05-24

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count4800

The Forbidden Kingdom

An American teenager who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung-fu classics makes an extraordinary discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, the Monkey King. With the lost relic in hand, the teenager unexpectedly finds himself travelling back to ancient China to join a crew of warriors from martial arts lore on a dangerous quest to free the imprisoned Monkey King.

Release Date2008-04-17

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1842

Young Guns II

Three of the original five "young guns" — Billy the Kid, Jose Chavez y Chavez, and Doc Scurlock — return in Young Guns, Part 2, which is the story of Billy the Kid and his race to safety in Old Mexico while being trailed by a group of government agents led by Pat Garrett.

Release Date1990-08-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count575

Spirit Untamed

Lucky Prescott's life is changed forever when she moves from her home in the city to a small frontier town and befriends a wild mustang named Spirit.

Release Date2021-05-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count539

The Rescue

A modern day western in which a rodeo cowboy's skills are put to the test outside the arena.

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Hidalgo

Set in 1890, this is the story of a Pony Express courier who travels to Arabia to compete with his horse, Hidalgo, in a dangerous race for a massive contest prize, in an adventure that sends the pair around the world...

Release Date2004-02-04

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1293

The Shack

A grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called 'The Shack'.

Release Date2017-03-03

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2210

Loch Ness

Dr. Dempsey, an American scientist, is sent to Scotland to disprove the existence of the Loch Ness Monster. He is shocked when Laura, an inn-keeper, introduces him to a small family of Nessie-dinosaurs.

Release Date1996-08-23

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count122

Crossroads

A wanna-be blues guitar virtuoso seeks a long-lost song by legendary musician, Robert Johnson.

Release Date1986-03-14

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count459

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny

A story of lost love, young love, a legendary sword and one last opportunity at redemption.

Release Date2016-02-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count699

Thunderheart

A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on a poverty-stricken Sioux reservation.

Release Date1992-04-03

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count304

Dreamkeeper

In South Dakota, in an Indian reservation, an old storyteller Indian asks his grandson Shane, who is in trouble owing money to some bad guys, to take his old pony and him to Albuquerque to the great powwow, an Indian meeting. While traveling, Grandpa tells mysterious Indian tales of love, friendship and magic.

Release Date2003-12-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count20

The Highwaymen

In 1934, Frank Hamer and Manny Gault, two former Texas Rangers, are commissioned to put an end to the wave of vicious crimes perpetrated by Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, a notorious duo of infamous robbers and cold-blooded killers who nevertheless are worshiped by the public.

Release Date2019-03-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2158

The Babe

A chronicle of Babe Ruth's phenomenal story--from his hard knock beginnings at a Baltimore orphanage, to his meteoric rise to baseball superstardom and his poignant retirement from the game. His amazing career included seven American League pennants, four World Series championships, two tempestuous marriages and a wild lifestyle that earned him numerous suspensions.

Release Date1992-04-17

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count162

Marco Polo: One Hundred Eyes

A defiant warrior-monk arrives at Kublai Khan's court in chains and soon earns his tragic nickname in this 30-minute origin story.

Release Date2015-12-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count130

Young Guns III

Plot kept under wraps. Third installment of the 'Young Guns' film franchise.

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Phantom

Modern day adaptation of the 1910 Gaston Leroux novel "Phantom of the Opera" – that the famous musical is also based on – set in the sultry nightlife scene of modern-day New Orleans, the world of jazz, R&B, neo-Soul, and funk.

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

The Wind & the Reckoning

As an outbreak of leprosy engulfs 19th-century colonial Hawai'i, a small group of infected Native Hawaiians resist government-mandated exile, taking a courageous stand against the provisional government. Inspired by real-life events.

Release Date2022-09-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1