 His first commissioned script was "Firestorm", a dramatic film script based on the documentary film "Fires of Kuwait".The script was purchased by Avatar Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company, but the script went into development hell and was never produced.His second script, a 1996 or 1997 adaptation of Joseph R. Garber's 1995 novel of corporate espionage and assassination, "Vertical Run", was commissioned by Warner Brothers, but it, too, went into development hell and was never produced.