On Fractured Ground
Unexplained tremors lead two neighbors toward a corporate threat capable of turning a community into a disaster zone.
Project pageScreenwriter · Actor · Storyteller
Douglas N. Wilkinson
Character-driven stories about ordinary people facing impossible truths—across contemporary thrillers, mysteries, spiritual drama, and the American frontier.
05Public projects
03Distinct worlds
NowAvailable to option
The public slate
Five stories ready to move.
Each screenplay has a dedicated project page and an external ScriptHop packet for producers, managers, collaborators, and other industry readers.
A feature screenplayThe
ReturnedWritten by Douglas N. Wilkinson
ReturnedWritten by Douglas N. Wilkinson
The Returned
A missing six-year-old returns hours later as a terrified sixteen-year-old—and her family’s miracle becomes a fight for the truth.
Project pageBased on true eventsE‑TownWritten by Douglas N. Wilkinson
E‑Town
In 1870 New Mexico Territory, a survivor’s courage forces a notorious gunfighter to decide what justice requires.
Project pageA feature screenplayThe
MiddlemanWritten by Douglas N. Wilkinson
MiddlemanWritten by Douglas N. Wilkinson
The Middleman
After a violent attack, a directionless young man enters a trial where every choice pulls him toward darkness or grace.
Project pageA frontier westernBrothers
of the BadgeWritten by Douglas N. Wilkinson
of the BadgeWritten by Douglas N. Wilkinson
Brothers of the Badge
Three U.S. Deputy Marshals forge an unbreakable bond while hunting the frontier’s deadliest gangs.
Project pageFeatured project
On Fractured Ground
Some truths aren’t meant to be buried.
When strange tremors and unexplained illnesses strike a suburban neighborhood, retired engineer Tex and his reclusive neighbor follow the evidence from contaminated water to a corporate plan engineered to profit from catastrophe.
The feature screenplay grew from an unpublished novel manuscript by Richard C. Williams. Douglas N. Wilkinson carried forward its characters, locale, and initiating situations, then rebuilt the material into a substantially new screen story.
Recognition
Stories finding their audience.
A growing record of finalist, semi-finalist, winner, and commendable-qualities recognition across screenplay competitions.
2026
On Fractured Ground
Page Turner Screenplays semi-finalist. Wiki Screenplay Contest semi-finalist. Accepted into the Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition.
2025
The Returned
Wiki Screenplay Awards winner for Best Screenplay in November, plus a Commendable Qualities review in the Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Contest.
2025
E‑Towne / E‑Town
Page Turner Screenplay Awards finalist and Wiki Screenplay Awards semi-finalist, with strong marks for concept, dialogue, and structure.
The writer
Douglas N. Wilkinson
Douglas Wilkinson is an actor and screenwriter developing feature stories grounded in pressure, consequence, and moral choice. His public slate moves from present-day conspiracy and mystery to the hard edge of the American West, always returning to characters forced to decide who they will become when the world stops giving them easy answers.
Five projects are currently ready for public consideration and optioning. Douglas is open to representation, producing relationships, and conversations with serious creative collaborators.