
Writing
Matthew Orton
Matthew Orton is a British writer and producer, who graduated from Magdalen College, the University of Oxford in 2010 with a first in History. His debut feature screenplay, CLEAN, featured on the Brit List. He also won a BBC young writers' competition in 2012. Early in his career, Matt participated in the Guiding Lights feature scheme, mentored by Academy Award-nominated writer Matt Charman, and was named a ‘Star of Tomorrow’ by Screen International. In 2015, Matt sold a spec screenplay to MGM about the capture of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. This script featured on the Black List and the Brit List in 2016, before being produced and then released in 2018 as the feature Operation Finale, directed by Chris Weitz and with a cast led by Oscar Isaac and Sir Ben Kingsley. Matt’s TV series Devil's Peak, based on Deon Meyer’s acclaimed Benny Griessel novels, is currently in production for MNET, Lookout Point, and Expanded Media. Orton also penned additional scenes and material for Marvel Studios' Captain America: Brave New World.
Acting credits
Behind the camera
6.6When a group of radical activists take over an energy company's annual gala, seizing 300 hostages, an ex-soldier turned window cleaner suspended 50 storeys up on the outside of the building must save those trapped inside, including her older brother.
Cleaner
2025
6.7In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.
Operation Finale
2018
Tackles the 1940 air campaign in which the RAF and the FAA defended the UK against the Nazis. Plot TBA.
Battle of Britain
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A feature adaptation of the award-winning 2024 documentary of the same name.
Hell Jumper
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An epic adventure movie which will be set in the Middle Ages.
Knights
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A team-up film featuring DC villains Bane and Deathstroke. Plot TBA.
Untitled Bane and Deathstroke Film
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