​​​Fatal Break (original revised treatment)​

Did anybody knew Columbo's family was coming from North-East of Italia, not far from Cortina d'Ampezzo, in the amazing mountains named Dolomites, where Cliff Hanger opening scene was shot?  Imagine a perfect murder committed there by an American who takes advantage of his outstanding skills in the art of rock climbing:  he set up a fake accident to get rid of his very rich wife who where about to divorce.  But at the bottom of the fatal wall, are hiking a young officer of italian mountain police corps and his old uncle come from California to spend some vacations :  Columbo...​
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Based on ​ Rupture Fatale by Olivier Cazeaux (1993).​
Treatment read in March 1996 by Peter Falk  who submitted it to Universal Studios.​
Agreement with Universal Television signed off in March 1997.​
Revision completed in June 1998, under the control of Peter Falk, Rob Levine and Nancy Meyer, exec.



​Confessional Open​ ​​​​(original Columbo story)​

​Our WGA agent Stephanie Rogers submitted this story to Universal and Peter Falk during Fatal Break revision process.   Stephanie thought it was a very well structured story, professionally made.  She liked it more again than Fatal Break.  Though Peter and his mates did like it too, they didn't go through by fear of possible problems it was likely to trigger with the Catholics:  the murderer is a priest, even if his motive has something noble.



A Hint of Murder ​(Columbo story outline)​

Usually film producers never read freelance writers outlines.  Stephanie Rogers took advantage Peter was satisfied by the revision process to submit this idea which brings all the ingredients to write a treatment.   Once again they liked it at the Columbo Dpt. but didn't go through, using the context of cosmetics had been yet the set of an episode (Lovely but Lethal).​
In fact A Hint of Murder shows the universe of perfume with, it's my conviction, a very sophisticated plot that could have given a very good episode.



​Perilous Game 
Based on my original story Un Jeu Trop Grand, it tells the story of an ordinary man suddenly arrested by the FBI in New York and suspected to be in fact one of the American Mafia heads officially dead a couple of years ago in a car crash.  To avoid rotting in prison, the man - who is he actually? -  will agree to play the role of his double under the control of the FBI:  a perilous game for him and for people whose interests are opposed about is actual identity.  A first draft was written with Jenny Taillat and a second one, you can read there, with Steve Hayes.



Critical Mass (written with Steve Hayes)​

When in a next future the first tourist space shuttle is reaching  the tale of a huge comet, life is suddenly wiped off on Earth.  Aboard the shuttle, wondering what to do, scientists and big time passengers eventually decide to enter the comet tale , their only chance to survive by getting within a couple of years,  a planet  where human life is supposed to be possible.  Aboard, enough people, enough genetic variety ... a critical mass that makes  a new human colonization credible... manipulation included. 



​Critical Mass: the beat sheet



No Walking God (written with Steve Hayes)​

The Ambassador of France in London is a very famous scientist.  Also renowned for his pacifist convictions, he is given favorite for the next Nobel Peace Prize.  But as his closest assistant is driven to believe, would he be actually a spy?



The Bleausards

1943. Hiking in the forest of Fontainebleau - near Paris - an officer of german air force is finding by chance, among a band of eccentric climbers, a french alpinist whose life he saved before the War.  The officer quickly understands these men are actually members of the Underground, preparing an action. Despiste  their sympathy, they arrest him.