Joe Barton
Joe Barton is a film and television writer.
Works
Black Doves
When a spy posing as a politician's wife learns her lover has been murdered, an old assassin friend joins her on a quest for truth — and vengeance.
Release Date: 2024-12-05
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 6
Vote Count: 224
The Union
A New Jersey construction worker goes from regular guy to aspiring spy when his long-lost high school sweetheart recruits him for an espionage mission.
Release Date: 2024-08-15
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 941
The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself
Caught between two warring clans, the son of a notorious witch responsible for a deadly massacre tries to find his place in the world — and his powers.
Release Date: 2022-10-28
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 8
Vote Count: 142
The Lazarus Project
George wakes up to find himself several months in the past before being recruited for the Lazarus Project – a secret organization that turns back time when the world is at threat of extinction.
Release Date: 2022-06-16
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 16
Vote Count: 182
Encounter
A decorated Marine goes on a rescue mission to save his two young sons from an unhuman threat. As their journey takes them in increasingly dangerous directions, the boys will need to leave their childhoods behind.
Release Date: 2021-12-03
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 431
Giri/Haji
Soulful thriller set in Tokyo and London, exploring the butterfly effect of a single murder across two cities. A dark, witty and daring examination of morality and redemption.
Release Date: 2019-10-17
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 8
Vote Count: 136
My Days of Mercy
The daughter of a man on death row falls in love with a woman on the opposing side of her family's political cause.
Release Date: 2018-03-31
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 225
The Ritual
A group of college friends reunite for a trip to the forest, but encounter a menacing presence in the woods that's stalking them.
Release Date: 2017-10-11
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 3047
iBoy
After an accident, Tom wakes from a coma to discover that fragments of his smart phone have been embedded in his head, and worse, that returning to normal teenage life is impossible because he has developed a strange set of super powers.
Release Date: 2017-01-27
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1153
Humans
In a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a 'Synth' - a highly-developed robotic servant that's so similar to a real human it's transforming the way we live.
Release Date: 2015-06-14
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 610
Our World War
Our World War is a gripping factual drama series offering viewers first-hand experience of the extraordinary bravery of young soldiers fighting 100 years ago. Drawing on real stories of World War One soldiers it uses the visual techniques and imagery familiar from modern warfare – POV helmet camera footage, surveillance images and night vision – to immerse the BBC Three audience in life on the Western Front. Each episode is closely based on first-hand testimony, interviews and memoirs that reveal often hidden and sometimes disturbing aspects of the combat experience.
Release Date: 2014-08-07
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 25
Glasgow Girls
GLASGOW GIRLS is a specially commissioned musical drama for BBC Three that tells the inspirational true story of a group of schoolgirls whose petition to save their friend from deportation inspired a movement which would eventually help change immigration practices in Scotland.
Release Date: 2014-07-15
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 3
Blackout
A terrifyingly realistic counter-factual drama-documentary exploring the effects of a devastating cyber-attack on Britain's national electricity grid. Based on meticulous research and real government contingency plans, Blackout combines real and fake user-generated footage, CCTV archive and news reports to build a terrifyingly realistic account of Britain being plunged into darkness. What might happen if Britain experienced a nationwide power cut?
Release Date: 2013-09-08
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 12
McFly: Nowhere Left to Run
Updating "Thriller" for the "Twilight" generation, "Nowhere Left to Run" is a blood, sweat and scream-soaked vampire spectacular soundtracked by songs from McFly's latest album, Above the Noise, including huge, hit singles "Party Girl" and Taio Cruz collaboration "Shine a Light". Fun, frightening and fast-paced, glossily-produced and featuring gorgeous female fans with fangs, this is McFly as even their mothers would be scared to see them. The 30 minute film follows the boys from a daytime TV sofa to an isolated mansion where they try to ensure the future of McFly by taking their shirts off and plotting to murder one of their members.
Release Date: 2010-11-29
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 5
Untitled Cloverfield Sequel
Plot unknown.
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Amadeus
Set within the musical hub of bustling Vienna at the end of the 18th century, twenty-five-year-old Amadeus arrives in the city no longer a child and determined to carve his own path. Recently unemployed and without the management of his father, Amadeus finds an unlikely ally in a young singer who will become his wife, fiery Constanze Weber Mozart. Her connections help bring him into the orbit of the court composer Antonio Salieri, setting the three of them on a collision course that will ultimately define their lives and their legacies for years to come.
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1