Ben Hopkins is a screenwriter, film-maker and novelist. Born in Hong Kong. Grown in North London. Educated at Oxford and the Royal College of Art. Has lived in London and Istanbul. Now lives in Berlin. Speaks English, German, Italian, Turkish and French. His films include features and shorts, fiction and documentary, and have won awards at festivals such as Berlin, Locarno, Antalya and Toronto Hot Docs. Works predominantly as a screenwriter, writing films in all genres for other directors. |
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SEPTEMBER 2025: My novel CATHEDRAL is available in bookshops and from online retailers. See the "Books" page on this website for reviews and more details.
My script FUZE - an action movie/thriller for director David Mackenzie - starring Theo James, Aaron Taylor Johnson and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, has its premiere in Toronto Film Festival in September.
For the same Greek team that made the film INSIDE starring Willem Dafoe I have written YUGOSLOVE - a road movie following a couple journeying around the countries of the former Yugoslavia. We are now casting/financing.
Other screenplays I'm working on are... for producer Jason Solomons & BBC Films & Curzon an adaptation of Edward Chisholm's A WAITER IN PARIS, action movie THE RECRUITER (from the book by Gregg Podolski) for producer David Kosse/Rockwood Pictures and a new script for director Pawel Pawlikowski - details to follow.
My last new novel, GHOSTS. has failed to find a publisher, which is very disappointing. Meanwhile I've started work on a further novel, set in the 17th Century Ottoman Empire. It should take some years to write, I fear.
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