Marteinn Thorisson

Agent:  Conrad Williams

Biography: Marteinn was born in Iceland to German/Icelandic parents, acquired an MFA in screenwriting from USC and has lived in Galway, Ireland, for several years. He has been lead writer on the Irish crime series JACK TAYLOR starring Iain Glen (from the novels of Ken Bruen), directed by Stuart Orme, penning a total of seven films in the series. 

His feature film credits include Icelandic-set thriller OPERATION NAPOLEON, the award-winning animation feature NIKO AND THE WAY TO THE STARS and its two sequels, TWO BY TWO, released in 2015, and the live action feature SUMMER OF THE FLYING SAUCER. He has also written two episodes of SILENT WITNESS and is developing a third. 

Currently he is developing several projects, including INVISIBLE, co-written with Matt Harvey, a mystery crime drama set on the coast of Northern Ireland for Fibin Media; the sequel to OPERATION NAPOLEON for Saga Films and Splendid Films/ZDF; and DE BURGO, an action thriller series about a specialist investigative unit who pursue environmental crimes across Europe; produced by NDF, for ZDF with international partners. DE BURGO is cowritten with Matt Harvey.