Michael Ferris Filmography

Occupation:: Screen Story, Screenwriter

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The Surrogates

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Bruce Willis

Synopsis: The filmmaking trio behind the hit sci-fi sequel Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines re-team to explore a future in which humans live in isolation while only communicating with their fellow man through robots that serve as social surrogates and are better-looking versions of their human Read More

11/20/09
Terminator Salvation

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Bryce Dallas Howard, Anton Yelchin, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Moon Bloodgood

Synopsis: The fourth installment of the Terminator series follows an adult John Connor (played by Christian Bale) as he attempts to organize a human resistance force which could prove to be humankind's last true hope for survival in the war against their intelligent robot overlords. Aussie Sam Worthington Read More

5/22/09
Death Wish

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Sylvester Stallone

Synopsis: Sylvester Stallone resuscitates the Death Wish franchise with this retooling of the revenge drama centered around a man who goes on a vigilante killing spree after his wife and daughter are assaulted, resulting in his spouse's death. Stallone will direct from a script by Terminator 3 scribes Michael Ferris Read More

1/1/09
Primeval

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Dominic Purcell, Brooke Langton, Orlando Jones, Jürgen Prochnow, Gideon Emery

Synopsis: An American news crew travels to one of the most remote locations on the planet in hopes of capturing the savage serial killer rumored to have claimed over 300 lives in this white knuckle horror thriller starring Dominic Purcell and Orlando Jones, and based on actual events. As the intrepid Read More

1/12/07
Catwoman

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Halle Berry, Benjamin Bratt, Sharon Stone, Lambert Wilson, Alex Borstein

Synopsis: Patience Philips (Halle Berry) seems destined to spend her life apologizing for taking up space. Despite her artistic ability -- she has a more than respectable career as a graphic designer for Hedare Beauty, a Goliath cosmetics company -- Patience is excruciatingly shy, quick to take blame, and Read More

7/23/04
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes, Kristanna Loken

Synopsis: The second sequel to the 1984 sci-fi action classic, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines is the first film without the involvement of director James Cameron. Instead, Jonathan Mostow, the man behind Breakdown and U-571, has stepped in to fill the shoes left vacant by Cameron. In addition, the role Read More

7/2/03
The Others [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Julianne Nicholson, Gabriel Macht, Bill Cobbs, John Billingsley

Synopsis: Veteran screenwriters John Brancato and Michael Ferris created this X-Files-esque supernatural thriller series about a group of psychics who help the haunted and the doomed. Each of the group has their own metaphysical strengths: Warren (Kevin J. O'Connor) is a high-strung psychic, Mark (Gabriel Macht Read More

2000
The Game

Crew: Co-producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger, James Rebhorn, Peter Donat

Synopsis: Director David Fincher followed the success of his dark and atmospheric crime thriller Seven (1995) with another exercise in stylish film noir, this time lifting the pallid atmosphere a notch to indulge in a fast-paced trip through the cinematic funhouse. Michael Douglas plays Nicholas Van Orton Read More

1997
The Net

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam, Dennis Miller, Diane Baker, Wendy Gazelle

Synopsis: Irwin Winkler's paranoid thriller focuses on a high-tech nightmare, as a computer programmer finds herself on the run from an unknown enemy dedicated to ruining her life by digital means. Sandra Bullock stars as Angela Bennett, a programmer who unwittingly comes into possession of software that Read More

1995
Beethoven: The Morning Paper

Crew: Screenwriter

1994
Into the Sun

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Anthony Michael Hall, Michael Paré, Deborah Moore, Terry Kiser, Brian Haley

Synopsis: Anthony Michael Hall and Michael Pare star in this ridiculous rip-off of Top Gun and Rambo III. Hall plays Tom Slade, a Hollywood pretty-boy star who prepares for a film role by hanging around Air Force fighter pilot Paul Watkins (Michael Pare). Of course, Paul resents the Hollywood intrusion, but Read More

1/31/92
Mindwarp

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Bruce Campbell, Angus Scrimm, Marta Alicia, Elizabeth Kent, Mary Becker

Synopsis: In a post-holocaust world, one woman (Marta Alicia) relies on computer fantasies to entertain herself, but a glitch sends her to a far-off wasteland to deal with monsters called Crawlers. She is saved by a young rebel (Bruce Campbell), but the pair are later captured and brought underground by the Read More

1991
Married... With Children: You Better Shop Around, Part 1

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: When the Bundys' faulty air conditioner causes a huge power blackout in the neighborhood, Al (Ed O'Neill) takes decisive action. No, he doesn't buy a new conditioner: Instead, he moves his family into the cool confines of the local Foodie supermarket. Ordered to leave the premises or risk facing Read More

1991
Femme Fatale

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Colin Firth, Lisa Zane, Billy Zane, Scott Wilson, Lisa Blount

Synopsis: An independent American thriller of identity and personality. Joe Prince (Colin Firth) is a park ranger and an artist who falls deeply in love with Cynthia (Lisa Zane), a mysterious woman he meets in his park. They are (too) hastily married, and the day before the honeymoon Joe finds Cynthia's Read More

1990
Bail Jumper

Actors: Eszter Balint, B.J. Spalding, Tony Askin, Bo Brinkman, Joie Lee

Synopsis: Bail Jumper is a surrealistic "road movie", bearing traces of the best of Jim Jarmusch and Wim Wenders-with a bit of David Lynch thrown in. B.J. Spalding and Eszter Balint play a couple of losers, mired in a miserable flyspeck town in Missouri. As Spalding lies in his bed and plays with his guns, Balint Read More

1989
Have Gun, Will Travel: Ambush

Synopsis: Arriving at a ferryboat station with a prisoner (Michael Ferris) in tow, Paladin (Richard Boone) is waylaid by a crazed Frenchman named Devereaux (Alan Dexter), who holds Paladin at gunpoint and orders him to "wait." Soon thereafter, Devereaux takes three more people hostage, likewise telling them Read More

1960
Pal Joey

Actors: Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Barbara Nichols, Bobby Sherwood, Elizabeth Patterson, Barry Bernard

Synopsis: The John O'Hara/Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart Broadway musical Pal Joey created quite a stir during its original theatrical run in 1940. Here we had a heel of a hero who sleeps with a wealthy older woman in order to realize his dream of owning his own nightclub, and who breaks the heart of the girl Read More

1957
Titanic

Actors: Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Wagner, Audrey Dalton, Thelma Ritter

Synopsis: The 1912 sinking of the luxury liner Titanic is used as a backdrop for a several fictional subplots, chief of which involves snooty socialite Clifton Webb and his wife Barbara Stanwyck. Stanwyck has booked passage on the ill-fated passenger ship with her daughter (Audrey Dalton) and son (Harper Carter Read More

1953