Matthias Hues

Some produce.Some create.

We do more than tell stories.We invent worlds.

I'm Matthias Hues. For nearly four decades, I've lived in front of the camera. Today, together with my creative partner Leslie Carleton, we create stories that move seamlessly between film, television, and novels. This is where they begin.

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The Screenplay Library

Every world starts on the page

Completed feature and television spec scripts, written and developed alongside the film and book universes above.

  • Crusher poster — Matthias Hues walking barefoot along the Venice Beach boardwalk at sunset in a black suit with an open white shirt, shoes in hand.
  • Dogfight poster — a man walking down a Hollywood Boulevard at sunset with two pit bulls, a champion fighting dog and her puppy, flanked by billboards and a crowd.
  • Endless Waters poster — a man and woman treading water at dusk, a sailboat and distant islands behind them, the ocean floor falling away into darkness beneath.
  • Hard Country poster — a man in a leather jacket stands on a desert highway at sunset beside his truck and Airstream trailer, the Desert Rose Dance Hall's neon sign glowing at the roadside, under the title “Hard Country” and tagline “The Road Never Ends.”
  • Kinski poster — two gunslingers facing off in a dusty Old West street outside a saloon, a girl watching from a balcony and riders approaching behind them.
  • Mortal Game poster — five bloodied, exhausted survivors kneel around a glowing vial on the sand as a cliffside villa glows above them, under the tagline “Five champions. One antidote. Only one walks off the island.”
  • Planet Fall poster — five grime-streaked crew members facing off in a rusted space station corridor, two cryo pods and a spiral galaxy visible through the window behind them.
  • Sleeper poster — Sarah Stone in a warm coat holding a children's book, dissolving into her CIA operative alter ego firing a gun on a rain-slicked street, Berlin's Brandenburg Gate and a Moscow skyline behind her.
  • The Last Stuntman poster — a rugged older man in a leather jacket standing before a burning high-rise with an eviction notice posted on it, a young girl and armed men behind him, a vintage Mustang idling in the rain-soaked street below.
  • The Pendant poster — a glowing cross-shaped pendant with a cuneiform symbol at its center.
  • The Widower poster — a lone figure in a long dark coat walks down a rain-soaked alley holding a hammer, a red emergency light glowing behind him.
  • Untitled spec script — trailer still
  • Where Is Charlie? poster — a wide-eyed Chihuahua at the center of an explosive collage of Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard, a Nevada desert diner, a horned pickup truck, hillbillies, a towering bald enforcer, a blond man in a suit, and a schoolgirl running through the chaos.
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Four decades on screen. A growing shelf of original stories.

Matthias Hues built a career as one of action cinema's most recognizable screen presences — then started writing the stories he wanted to tell.

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