GUESS WHO

GRIMMFEST FILMS LTD - as PROD

TV Series - Development 2023

One Room. Five suspects. 3 Hours to find a killer.

    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • TV Series, Thriller
    • Countries
    • UNITED KINGDOM
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 160 mn
    • Synopsis
    • Based on the best selling novel by Chris McGeorge.

      Since he was a child, Morgan Sheppard always wanted to be famous. It didn’t matter for what, as long as he was recognized and adulated. When he was eleven years old a traumatic incident put him in the media spotlight and now, many years later, he is the famous presenter of a detective TV show. Spending his days popping pills and not caring about other people’s feelings, until now.

      Morgan wakes with a start and finds he is handcuffed to a bed in a hotel room. He must have been drugged. He soon discovers that there are five other apparent strangers also regaining consciousness within the room. They don’t know each other, and they don’t know how they got there, but the biggest surprise is the murdered body in the bathtub.

      A man concealed by a mask appears on the TV to explain that they are all locked inside a central London hotel room. One of them is the killer and if Morgan manages to find out who it is within the next three hours, they will all be free to go. If he doesn’t, the hotel will explode killing everyone inside it.

      With some effort Morgan finds the key for the handcuffs and once freed, attempts to take the lead. To his dismay, he recognises the man in the bathtub, a man who played an important part in his past life. It soon becomes apparent that all the other people in the room also have a connection with the dead man.

      Desperate to escape, they inspect all the access points to the room, which are locked and secured, they can’t get out! Morgan has no choice, the clock is ticking, he starts the investigation, trying to stay focused despite his come down from drugs and alcohol and his regrets from the past.

      Things start to get heated as suspicion rises among the other “guests” and accusations start to fly. Could one of these seemingly innocent people really be the killer?

      Everything happens in a few hours, with flashbacks and memories that take the reader back in time to discover what happened and what led these five people into this locked room.

      Needless to say, the traumatic events from Morgan’s past come into play and he will soon discover this mystery is even more complex than he first thought and the truth, once revealed, will have far reaching repercussions in which Morgan will be forced to pay for his previous misdemeanours and the reader is made to question what is real and what isn’t.

      A real-life Cluedo that features touches of Agatha Christie combined with contemporary psychological twists that shock and surprise the reader.