Justin Woolley

Author and Screenwriter

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About Justin

Justin Woolley has been writing stories since he could first scrawl with a crayon. When he was six years old he wrote his first book, a 300 word pirate epic in unreadable handwriting called 'The Ghost Ship'. He promptly declared that he was now an author and didn't need to go to school. Despite being informed that this was, in fact, not the case, he continued to make things up and write them down.

Today Justin is the author of the Australian set dystopian trilogy The Territory Series consisting of the novels A Town Called Dust, A City Called Smoke and A World of Ash, the young-adult science fiction adventure We Are Omega, the science-fiction comedy Shakedowners, and is now adding to the darkness of the 41st millennium writing Warhammer 40k for Black Library.

He is also an aspiring screenwriter having a number of complete feature film screenplays, several of which have scored well in competition including reaching the semi-finals of The Final Draft Big Break Competition.

Justin lives in Hobart, Australia with his wife and two sons. In his other life he's been an engineer, a teacher and at one stage even a magician. His handwriting has not improved.

Gender:
Male

Certifications

Loglines

Raising Hell Budget: $5M - $10M | Horror ⋄ Comedy When a nineteen-year-old college student receives word that her parents have been killed in a car accident she is forced to return to the hometown she thought she escaped to care for her eight-year-old brother, a boy who happens to be the Antichrist.
Take Me To Your Loser Budget: $10M - $30M | Sci-fi ⋄ Comedy In 1982, ten-year-old Henry Norton encountered an Extra-Terrestrial in the forest near his home. Now, thirty years later, nobody believes a word of his story and Henry, a down and out truck driver, spends his spare time travelling the UFO circuit. But when those aliens return in a full-scale invasion Henry is the only one able to communicate with them. He is forced to step in as Earth’s ambassador and attempt to negotiate a way out of our first interstellar ass-kicking.
Manchurian Mike Budget: $1M - $5M | Action ⋄ Comedy When an unambitious convenience store worker discovers he's been secretly turned into a deadly assassin, he must rescue his kidnapped niece and take down the shady government department that did this to him. Manchurian Mike is an action-comedy that asks: what happens if Jason Bourne wakes up in the wrong body

Awards

Quarter-finalist Emerging Screenwriters
(2022)
Semi-finalist Final Draft Big Break
(2021)
Quarter-finalist PAGE International Screenwriting Awards
(2021)