The House
Castle Productions develops and produces original films — from intimate, idea-driven shorts to epic features. We believe the strongest pictures are built the way castles are: on deep foundations, stone by stone, made to outlast the weather of any trend.
Research-driven treatments and screenplays. We do the historical digging, the science, and the structure work before a single frame exists.
Modern, nimble filmmaking — from traditional shoots to AI-assisted image and video pipelines when the story calls for the impossible.
Edit, color, and original sound design under one roof — every frame and every note finished in-house.
Now Building
Short Film · Released · 2026
Action · Sci-Fi · Thriller · 12 min
Hunter wakes in an abandoned office with no memory of how he got there — and is handed an experimental serum that grants him extraordinary abilities for exactly five minutes.
Directed and written by Hugo Will. Starring Tony Surphman, Landon Brittain, Alex Leone, and Alina Mykhailova. Produced by Landon Brittain.
Short Film · In Development
Dystopian Drama · Political Allegory · ~5 min
In a surveillance state where conformity is enforced through art, a young painter discovers that creativity, once shared and unobserved, produces something no single person could make alone.
Built on the double-slit experiment: watched, we collapse into two bands; unwatched, the pattern blooms. Produced with an AI-assisted image-to-video pipeline. First in a series of films telling the laws of nature as human stories.
Feature Film · In Development
Historical Epic · The Saga of Harald Hardrada
A wounded fifteen-year-old flees a lost battle and rises — sell-sword across three empires, commander of the Byzantine Emperor's feared Varangian Guard — until he sails home with a fortune to seize a crown, and dies reaching for one more, in the battle that ends the Viking Age.
A true story, richer than legend — drawn from Byzantine chronicles, Norse sagas, and skaldic verse. Screenplay complete; treatment and research brief available to partners.
Feature Trilogy · Two Scripts Complete
Sci-Fi Survival · GROUND TRUTH · DRAW DISTANCE · THE RING
The world does not end. It gets optimized. When reality starts shedding whatever nobody is looking at, the last rule of survival is simple: be unobserved.
I GROUND TRUTH · A physicist who threw his own life away is the only man alive who understands what the world was handed in one week of 2022, and he has spent every year since being exactly right and completely unbelievable.
II DRAW DISTANCE · When a benevolent superintelligence overdraws the compute budget of the simulation we live in, the universe starts shedding load. A tower rigger leads a band of survivors into the one place the machine cannot bill them for: the dark.
III THE RING · Refused by the world below, the survivors return to the surface to build the one monument the machine can never delete, and bury it. In development.
A trilogy told out of order by design: DRAW DISTANCE shoots first, and the first film becomes tragedy in hindsight. Two feature screenplays complete. Written by and starring Landon Brittain.
Feature Film · In Development
Supernatural Conspiracy Thriller
A rehabilitated veteran watches his quiet life dismantled one reasonable accident at a time. The trail ends at a billionaire philanthropist who survives a bullet to the head, and who wants to answer the same question Marcus does: why is Marcus the only human alive who can kill his kind?
Written with director Dela Smooth. Starring Landon Brittain as Marcus "Saint" Boone, alongside his father's 1971 Plymouth Barracuda 440, which plays itself.
Feature Film · In Development
Supernatural Horror · Contained Feature
Two best friends land a Hollywood Hills house for a deal too good to turn down, then discover why: it comes with another tenant. Not the kind you charge rent. The kind that can't leave, even when you beg it to.
Starring Landon Brittain and Danny Alimari. Built around HorrorMeet.com, the online community for haunting survivors that lives inside the film, and in the real world.
Short Film · In Post-Production
Short Film · Premiering on YouTube
Landon Brittain and Tony Surphman reunite under director Hugo Will for a new short, headed to the Castle Productions YouTube channel.
Currently in post-production. Logline under wraps until the trailer.
The Method
We're a small house that moves like one — writer-led development, lean production, and an early command of AI image and video generation that lets us put worlds on screen that used to need a hundred-person crew. The craft stays classical; the toolbox doesn't have to.
The Founder
Actor, producer, and entrepreneur. On screen in Netflix's The Guardians of Justice, BloodHunt, and GodHead; behind the camera as producer on a growing slate of films.
Work With Us
Partners, financiers, distributors, and collaborators — we'd love to talk. Scripts, treatments, and the full research brief for THE LAST VIKING are available on request.
Los Angeles, California