Smoke N Mirrors Productions

Screenwriter / Producer / Film Production

Smoke N Mirrors Productions

Cinematic stories with edge, scale, and mystery. Peter Murphy III develops grounded thrillers, wilderness adventures, conspiracy dramas, and high-stakes film and television projects built for industry review.

9Active projects
3Production ready
2Under construction
4In development

About Peter

Writer, producer, and Pacific Northwest storyteller.

Peter Murphy III is a Las Vegas based screenwriter and producer whose work is shaped by Oregon roots, Los Angeles film training, and a firsthand understanding of the Pacific Northwest timber world.

Born and raised in Eugene, Oregon, Peter studied Film and Television Production and Screenwriting at Loyola Marymount University. His creative path includes collaboration with independent filmmakers and producers connected to notable film projects, while his family logging background gives his wilderness and timber stories an unusually lived-in point of view.

His slate moves between family legacy drama, Cold War espionage, wilderness mystery, spiritual action-adventure, Las Vegas crime, and speculative high-concept thrillers.

Production and creative services.

Peter’s requested business-card service menu is carried into the site as the company’s clean service language.

Producer

Project packaging, development strategy, and production coordination.

Screenwriter

Feature, television, pilot, series bible, and story development work.

Film Production

Concept-to-camera planning for cinematic film and video projects.

Content Creation

Story-first materials for web, pitch, campaign, and promotional use.

Post-Production

Editorial finishing, polish, and assembly support for production assets.

Editing Services

Cutting, restructuring, tightening, and preparing media for release.

Cinematography

Visual planning and image language for story-driven production.

Photography

Portraits, production stills, campaign visuals, and supporting imagery.

Videography

Lean video capture for interviews, events, short-form media, and reels.

Writing slate.

Peter’s menu is organized by writing status: Production Ready, Under Construction, and In Development.

Production Ready

Forest For The Trees poster concept
Dramatic Series

Forest For The Trees

An eight-episode serialized drama set in McLean, Oregon, where Holly McLean fights to save a century-old logging family from corruption, sabotage, political betrayal, and murder.

Tone: Yellowstone, The Waterfront, Landman, Succession.

False Flag DB Cooper inspired visual
Cold War Thriller

False Flag

At the height of the Cold War, a CIA agent turned smokejumper is pulled into a staged hijacking meant to expose America’s lack of airport security.

A DB Cooper-inspired spy thriller of CIA, FBI, PFLP, romance, betrayal, and escape.

Connor Dunn poster concept
Adventure Mystery

Connor Dunn And The Search For The Weapon

An unidentified aircraft is detected beneath icy waters off Alaska near the Russian border, sending rival powers racing toward the same buried secret.

Poster line: It lies beneath.

Under Construction

The Undiscovered Bigfoot visual
Thriller / Adventure

The Undiscovered

Kevin enters the Bohemia forest to prove Bigfoot exists and claim the government reward that could save his father, only to find federal agents, illegal loggers, and a protected wilderness mystery in his way.

Based upon actual events.

Sacred Treasures desert journey visual
Feature Film

Sacred Treasures

Across India, Swamiji leads Doctor, Krishnavani, Guruda, Jai, and a devoted circle on a rescue mission against Pandit Baba’s dark occult power.

Based on actual events.

In Development

The Neon City Murders poster concept
Las Vegas Crime

The Neon City Murders

Metro Detective Scott Callahan arrives in Las Vegas carrying an old-school lawman’s edge into a neon-lit murder case built for grit, danger, and franchise potential.

Early-stage screenplay project.

Living On The Edge coastal concept
Early Concept

Living On The Edge

A sun-washed coastal concept with glamour, danger, and reinvention pressing against each other at the edge of the water.

Visual direction: Miami / Florida mood boards.

Can This Be True Area 51 visual
Speculative Mystery

Can This Be True?

An Area 51 mystery concept built around buried truth, extraordinary claims, and the question that keeps the audience leaning forward.

Visual direction: alien encounters and classified secrets.

Seal Of God military action visual
Action / Spiritual Stakes

Seal Of God

A military action concept charged with spiritual stakes, battlefield urgency, and end-of-days imagery.

Development materials include military and apocalyptic visuals.

One-sheet poster wall.

The email archive includes dozens of one-sheet and poster concepts. This wall brings the strongest project-facing pieces into one place for quick review.

Forest For The Trees one-sheet poster

Forest For The Trees

Production Ready

False Flag one-sheet poster

False Flag

Production Ready

Connor Dunn one-sheet poster

Connor Dunn

Production Ready

The Undiscovered one-sheet poster

The Undiscovered

Under Construction

Sacred Treasures one-sheet poster

Sacred Treasures

Under Construction

The Neon City Murders one-sheet poster

The Neon City Murders

In Development

Living On The Edge one-sheet poster

Living On The Edge

In Development

Can This Be True one-sheet poster

Can This Be True?

In Development

Seal Of God one-sheet poster

Seal Of God

In Development

Synopsis library.

The longer email synopses have been compressed into website-ready summaries while keeping the story engines Peter described.

Series Bible

Forest For The Trees

Holly McLean becomes the center of a dangerous family-business fight after the disappearance of her husband, Sean. The McLeans battle rival timber interests, a corrupt politician, a crooked sheriff, a corporate assassin, and the collapse of old Oregon values while trying to preserve McLean Logging and the town that bears their name.

Season One is built as eight serialized episodes with cliffhangers, political escalation, sabotage, family trauma, and a final Christmas reckoning that leaves the McLean family victorious, wounded, and facing a larger corporate threat.

Cold War Thriller

False Flag

Chris, a smokejumper with a hidden CIA past, is recruited to stage a commercial 727 hijacking that would force Congress to confront the absence of airport security. At the same time, Bianca, a seductive operative tied to the PFLP, draws him into a second hijacking plot while FBI Agent Stone closes in.

With Emma, an undercover FBI agent, falling for him, Chris realizes every side may plan to kill him after the mission. The result is a Cold War game of espionage, romance, betrayal, and a desperate escape into history.

Thriller / Adventure

The Undiscovered

Teenage Kevin searches for evidence of Bigfoot after learning that the reward for proving the creature exists could pay for his father’s life-saving treatment. His uncle, Sheriff Streeter, leads him toward a buried 1879 mining mystery, a professor who can validate the discovery, and old journals connected to Teddy Roosevelt’s expedition.

The search pulls Kevin’s team into the Bohemia National Forest, where federal agents, illegal logging, Bigfoot territory, sacred burial grounds, and a final healing encounter collide.

Spiritual Adventure

Sacred Treasures

In Kanpur, India, Swamiji is disturbed by unjust arrests and the mistreatment of innocent people. With Doctor and a loyal group of allies, he launches a rescue mission to save Raju from Pandit Baba, an occult practitioner with dark power and relentless reach.

The journey moves through prison corridors, city streets, mystical danger, and tests of loyalty, faith, and courage, building an action-adventure rooted in friendship, spiritual conviction, and Indian cultural texture.

Las Vegas Crime

The Neon City Murders

In the early stages of development, the story introduces Scott Callahan inside the Las Vegas Metro Police Department. The emails position the project as a hard-edged detective property with a new Callahan carrying a classic lawman legacy into modern Las Vegas.

Adventure Mystery

Connor Dunn

The one-sheet teaser points to a discovery beneath the ocean near Alaska and the Russian border. With two superpowers racing toward the same site, Connor Dunn becomes a high-stakes search for a weapon and the truth hidden below the surface.

Video and reference materials.

The emails include two Forest For The Trees one-sheet video references, a torch reel note, and a Bigfoot calendar visual reference connected to The Undiscovered.

Forest For The Trees video reference thumbnail
Pinterest Reference

Forest For The Trees Video Reference I

Peter asked whether this type of one-sheet video could be used for Forest For The Trees.

Open Reference
Forest For The Trees second video reference thumbnail
Pinterest Reference

Forest For The Trees Video Reference II

A second one-sheet video reference for the Forest For The Trees visual direction.

Open Reference
Forest For The Trees torch reel production still
Torch Reel

Forest For The Trees Reel

The local archive includes an FFTT reel. Peter noted that selected scenes may be used, with story geography corrected to McLean rather than Hood River.

Available by request for qualified review.

Bigfoot calendar visual reference
Visual Reference

Bigfoot 2026 Calendar

The Amazon note points to a Willow Creek Press Bigfoot calendar, useful as a visual reference lane for The Undiscovered.

Open Reference

Qualified inquiries

Request scripts, decks, reels, lookbooks, or project materials.

Smoke N Mirrors Productions can provide additional materials for qualified producers, managers, agents, investors, distributors, and production partners.

Copyright Smoke N Mirrors Productions. All scripts, concepts, decks, reels, and project materials are protected and available only for qualified review by request.