Matthew Orton
Writing
Biography
Matthew Orton is a British writer and producer, who graduated from Magdalen College, the University of Oxford in 2010 with a first in History. His debut feature screenplay, CLEAN, featured on the Brit List. He also won a BBC young writers' competition in 2012. Early in his career, Matt participated in the Guiding Lights feature scheme, mentored by Academy Award-nominated writer Matt Charman, and was named a ‘Star of Tomorrow’ by Screen International. In 2015, Matt sold a spec screenplay to MGM about the capture of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. This script featured on the Black List and the Brit List in 2016, before being produced and then released in 2018 as the feature Operation Finale, directed by Chris Weitz and with a cast led by Oscar Isaac and Sir Ben Kingsley. Matt’s TV series Devil's Peak, based on Deon Meyer’s acclaimed Benny Griessel novels, is currently in production for MNET, Lookout Point, and Expanded Media. Orton also penned additional scenes and material for Marvel Studios' Captain America: Brave New World.
Known For
When Steven Grant, a mild-mannered gift-shop employee, becomes plagued with blackouts and memories of another life, he discovers he has dissociative identity disorder and shares a body with mercenary Marc Spector. As Steven/Marc’s enemies converge upon them, they must navigate their complex identities while thrust into a deadly mystery among the powerful gods of Egypt.
Moon Knight
When a group of radical activists take over an energy company's annual gala, seizing 300 hostages, an ex-soldier turned window cleaner suspended 50 storeys up on the outside of the building must save those trapped inside, including her older brother.
Cleaner
In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.
Operation Finale
Based on Deon Meyer's 2004 best-selling novel of the same name - centres on Detective Benny Grissel, tasked with tracking down a righteous vigilante killer whose crimes capture the city's imagination.
Devil's Peak
A team-up film featuring DC villains Bane and Deathstroke. Plot TBA.
Untitled Bane and Deathstroke Film
A behind-the-scenes look at Operation Finale.
Inside the Operation
Tackles the 1940 air campaign in which the RAF and the FAA defended the UK against the Nazis. Plot TBA.
Battle of Britain
An epic adventure movie which will be set in the Middle Ages.
Knights
A feature adaptation of the award-winning 2024 documentary of the same name.