Producer
Frank Beddor produces stories the long way round. He finds one worth telling, gathers the right people around it, and keeps going until it lives in every form it can.
Two Hits, One Year
Frank learned to produce the fast way. In 1998 he had two films in release. There’s Something About Mary finished the year as the highest-grossing comedy in America and has since earned more than $370 million worldwide. Wicked, a Sundance thriller, gave a sixteen-year-old Julia Stiles her breakout.
One was broad and one was dark, and both taught him the same lesson: back the story, then find the people who can make it sing. That lesson became Automatic Pictures, and it drives everything he’s producing now.
Wonderland, in Song
The biggest story on his slate is one he wrote himself. The Looking Glass Wars began as a bestselling trilogy, and Frank has spent the years since producing it into every form it can take.
The newest is Alyss of Wonderland, an original musical developed for the theater and for the screen. For it he brought together two of Britain’s leading musical-theater talents: Pippa Cleary on music and lyrics, and Shaun McKenna (The Lord of the Rings: A Musical Tale) on book and lyrics.
Wonderland, in Prestige
Television is next. Frank is producing The Looking Glass Wars as a premium series, with Farren Blackburn attached to direct and Teresa Lin (Bones) writing.
It’s the same instinct that worked in 1998: find the people who see the story the way he does, then give it the scale, danger and imagination it has always called for.
Wonderland, in Print
On the page, the world keeps widening. Blade of Time opens a new era of the saga as a graphic novel series, written by Curtis Clark, illustrated by Bram Stoker Award nominee Alex Cormack and lettered by Tom Napolitano.
Young Hatter goes back to the beginning: a middle-grade prequel that follows Hatter Madigan as a cadet at Wonderland’s Millinery Academy. One series rewards longtime fans, and the other brings in the next generation of readers.
Wonderland, in Play
Through Automatic Games, Frank is producing House of Cards, a single-player deck-building quest game for PC, releasing in 2027. The House of Cards is the seat of Wonderland’s government, where strategy, invention and power decide the fate of a civilization.
Players take command of it: recruit Card Soldiers from the four rival Suits, build specialized Hands, send them on quests, and grow Wonderland’s military into a force capable of defending the Queendom. Every hand is dealt from here.
Two Brides, One Revenge
Frank hasn’t lost his taste for the kind of comedy that made his name. Dumped is a feature about two brides, left at the altar on the same day, who swap revenge on their exes and find out that payback boomerangs when love is involved.
It’s sharp, romantic and full of heart, and the script is ready to go.
And That’s Just the Start
Beyond Wonderland, the slate keeps growing: a television series drawn from a true New York story, a sci-fi crime drama set in a Los Angeles mapped through memory, five surfing sisters out to save the planet, and a high-school noir in a too-perfect paradise.
Different voices and different forms, with Frank producing every one. The full slate is under Works.
