Read a FilmStory IP by Bjarne O. Henriksen
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15 original cinematic prose stories & a flagship saga — adaptation-ready

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What is Read-a-Film?

Read-a-Film is a complete prose reading experience with the momentum, clarity and visual storytelling of film. For industry professionals, it makes the movie easier to see and feel before it exists — helping them judge what works before production.
Every story is also available as a screenplay.

The flagship

A Reborn Classic

Two parts, fully developed — The War Chest and its sequel, Under Siege.

Selected stories

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Fully developed IP — ready for adaptation

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Herforth & Jensen

Two broke, mismatched Copenhagen lawyers invent an environmental law firm, take a case they were paid to lose — and stumble into a luxury-car network that exports wanted executives as upholstery. A premium dark-comic legal thriller about the wrong case, the wrong lawyers, and the right kind of trouble.

COMPS: Deadloch · Fargo · The Good Fight meets The Outlaws

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Adam & Alien

Our alien forefathers return to end their failed experiment: the human race, created to test the emotions they erased from themselves millions of years ago. But when the alien girl Molis begins to feel after meeting the grieving teenager Adam, they become humanity’s last chance.

COMPS: Arrival · Midnight Special · Contact

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Lovebroker

When his wife leaves him for LoveBroker, a service promising its clients happy lives, heartbroken plastic surgeon Arthur signs up to expose it. But it isn’t a scam. So he fakes his own death and rebuilds himself as the perfect LoveBroker Man to get one last chance to make his ex-wife fall in love with him again.

COMPS: The Lobster · Mrs. Doubtfire · Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

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The Monkey Musketeers

In 1944 Nazi-occupied Copenhagen, twelve-year-old Jeppe Hytt-Hansen, who has secretly trained three zoo primates as his Musketeers — Athos, Porthos and Aramis — turns their game into a real Resistance mission when the Gestapo captures his family and dozens of Danes bound for concentration camps.

COMPS: Jojo Rabbit · War Horse · The Great Escape

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About the creator

Bjarne O. Henriksen

Bjarne O. Henriksen writes tightly structured cinematic fiction for page and screen. His work is recognised and sold internationally and spans historical, mythic, and political registers, with stories designed to stand on the page and travel naturally into film and television.

Silver Nymph, Monte Carlo

The Second Life of Eddie Holm

Golden Bear Nominee

Eye of the Eagle

European Script Fund Award

Herforth & Jensen

Invited Member

European Film Academy

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