John Collee

John Collee (born 1955) is a Scottish screenwriter who has written scripts for Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World and Happy Feet. He has written and co-written screenplays for the films Creation, Oceans, and Legend of the Guardians. He is married to Deborah Snow, and they have three children: Lauren Collee, Isla Collee, and Jack Collee. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Collee, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Bergerac
6.7

Bergerac

Jim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way. While dealing with his own personal demons Bergerac has a knack of finding trouble, and sometimes causing it.

Release Date1981-10-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Vote Count21

Boy Swallows Universe
7.2

Boy Swallows Universe

A young boy growing up in the suburbs of 1980s Brisbane faces the harsh realities of life — and the looming dangers that threaten his family.

Release Date2024-01-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count7

Vote Count107

6.2

Happy Feet

Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fierce!

Release Date2006-11-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count5213

6.9

Monkey Man

Kid is an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.

Release Date2024-04-03

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1151

The Heart Surgeon
2.0

The Heart Surgeon

Alex Marsden is a handsome and celebrated cardiac surgeon with a champagne lifestyle. His two closest friends are Marcella and her husband Larry. Marcella and Alex are in the middle of an affair when Larry develops a heart problem. A heart bypass operation will save him and Larry wants Alex to perform it.

Release Date1997-05-04

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count1

5.9

The Legend of Tarzan

Tarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the activities at a mining encampment.

Release Date2016-06-29

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count6296

7.1

Lee

The true story of photographer Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II.

Release Date2024-09-12

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count447

6.5

The Return

After twenty years away, Odysseus washes up on the shores of Ithaca, haggard and unrecognizable. The king has finally returned home, but much has changed in his kingdom since he left to fight in the Trojan war.

Release Date2024-09-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count293

7.2

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to duty and ferocious pursuit of glory against the safety of his devoted crew, including the ship's thoughtful surgeon, his best friend.

Release Date2003-11-14

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count3267

6.2

Walking with Dinosaurs

In a time when dinosaurs rule the Earth, the smallest dinosaur of the herd, a playful Pachyrhinosaurus named Patchi, embarks on the biggest adventure of his life. As he tries to find his place in a spectacular world filled with fun-loving friends and a few dangerous foes, Patchi will discover the courage he needs to become the leader of the herd and a hero for the ages.

Release Date2013-12-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count485

7.5

Hotel Mumbai

Mumbai, India, November 26, 2008. While several terrorists spread hatred and death through the city, others attack the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel. Both hotel staff and guests risk their lives, making unthinkable sacrifices to protect themselves and keep everyone safe while help arrives.

Release Date2019-03-14

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1616

6.1

Black Site

A group of officers based in a labyrinthine top-secret prison must fight for their lives against Hatchet, a brilliant and infamous high-value detainee. When he escapes, his mysterious and deadly agenda has far reaching and dire consequences.

Release Date2022-05-05

DepartmentCrew

JobAdditional Writing

Vote Count257

6.4

Son of a Gun

Locked up for a minor crime, 19 year old JR quickly learns the harsh realities of prison life. Protection, if you can get it, is paramount. JR soon finds himself under the watchful eye of Australia's most notorious criminal, Brendan Lynch, but protection comes at a price.

Release Date2014-10-16

DepartmentCrew

JobAdditional Writing

Vote Count776

6.4

Creation

A psychological, heart-wrenching love story that provides a unique and inside look at Charles Darwin. Torn between faith and science, he struggles to finish his legendary book "On the Origin of the Species," which goes on to become the foundation for evolutionary biology.

Release Date2009-09-25

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count234

6.8

The Water Diviner

In 1919, Australian farmer Joshua Connor travels to Turkey to discover the fate of his three sons, reported missing in action. Holding on to hope, Joshua must travel across the war-torn landscape to find the truth and his own peace.

Release Date2014-12-25

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count1260

6.5

Wolf Totem

In 1969, a young Beijing student, Chen Zhen, is sent to live among the nomadic herdsmen of Inner Mongolia. Caught between the advance of civilization from the south and the nomads' traditional enemies - the marauding wolves - to the north; humans and animals, residents and invaders alike, struggle to find their true place in the world.

Release Date2015-02-19

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count385

7.1

Candy

A poet falls in love with an art student, who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle — and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair.

Release Date2006-05-25

DepartmentWriting

JobScript Editor

Vote Count615

6.1

Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears

After freeing a young Bedouin girl from her unjust imprisonment in Jerusalem, an Australian adventuress, together with her devoted police detective friend, begins to unravel a decade-old mystery concerning priceless emeralds, an ancient curse and the disappearance of the girl's mother and massacre of her tribe.

Release Date2020-02-27

DepartmentWriting

JobScript Consultant

Vote Count109

3.0

Three

A boy is going through a mental health crisis, prompting his mother to seek help from an unlikely man. This man must set aside his Western thinking to save her son through an intense ritual.

Release Date2024-02-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

6.7

Tanna

In a traditional tribal society in the South Pacific, a young girl, Wawa, falls in love with her chief’s grandson, Dain. When an inter-tribal war escalates, Wawa is unknowingly betrothed as part of a peace deal. The young lovers run away, refusing her arranged fate. They must choose between their hearts and the future of the tribe, while the villagers must wrestle with preserving their traditional culture and adapting it to the increasing outside demands for individual freedom.

Release Date2015-10-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count94

6.6

Mahana

1960s, East Coast of New Zealand. Two Māori sheep-shearing families, the Mahanas and the Poatas, are longstanding enemies and commercial rivals. 14-year-old Simeon Mahana, the youngest son of the youngest son is in conflict with his traditionalist grandfather, Tamihana. As Simeon unravels the truth behind the longstanding family vendetta he risks not just his own future prospects but the cohesion of the entire tight-knit society.

Release Date2016-09-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count20

6.5

Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D

In this journey through the seasons, you’ll experience a year in the life of hundreds of plant-eating dinosaurs. From the moment they hatch, these prehistoric giants face natural disasters and ferocious predators while hunting, feeding, playing, and undertaking epic migrations. Based on scientific data, the digital dinosaurs come to life against the backdrop of modern Alaska.

Release Date2014-09-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

4.2

The View from Greenhaven

A grumpy old man living in an idyllic coastal town who can't see he has the perfect life.

Release Date2008-10-15

DepartmentWriting

JobScript Editor

Vote Count3

5.7

Paper Mask

A lowly hospital orderly impersonates a recently deceased doctor and goes to work in the busy ER of a small hospital where he meets and befriends a nurse who slowly figures out his secret and helps him maintain his charade.

Release Date1990-09-14

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count21

6.0

The Heart Surgeon

Cardiac surgeon Alex Marsden has an affair with Marcella Duggan, but then finds himself having to operate on her husband Larry, who is also his friend.

Release Date1997-05-04

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Roborovski

In this wickedly charming short set at a pet store, a dejected Roborovski hamster who just wants a forever home takes matters into its own hands…

Release Date2020-10-22

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

The Story of Lee Ping

In the 1920s, the unlikely bond between Chinese erotic dancer Lee Ping and an Aboriginal farmhand enables her to escape the clutches of her white employer.

Release Date2021-08-18

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

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