Rob Yescombe

Rob Yescombe began his writing career in videogames, where he has written for franchises including ALIEN, RAMBO, STAR WARS, FAMILY GUY and TARZAN. Among his feature film accolades, Rob has won both the Screenwriting Award of Excellence and the Rising Star Award at the Canada International Film Festival, as well as Best Thriller at the Creative World Awards.

His feature screenplay OUTSIDE THE WIRE landed on The Brit List 2014, and is set with London-based production company 42, to be exec produced by Automatik.

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Cross Channel Film Lab 2015

Cowritten with Ed Tracy & Laura Deeley

The story was inspired by the myth of Cupid, the concept of love directed and controlled. What if it was used as a weapon? A concept we dubbed being “spiked”.

The short film is set in a futuristic version of 1940s London. The story presents the situation of a long term “spike victim” being injured, his implant failing. The spy who put it there has in the meantime fallen in love for real. She chooses to betray her mission and save her lover, but once he knows the truth about their deception, can he ever forgive her, let alone love her? Can they ever be truly free of what happened? Does destiny still have a role when such trickery is used for something so emotive as “true love”? Can “true love” ever be attributed to just a chemical reaction, or is there a force at work which goes beyond our comprehension? Can the pair tell the difference between what emotion is real and what is fake?