ERIK PATTERSON & JESSICA SCOTT, writers for Film & TV 

Award-winning writers Erik Patterson & Jessica Scott are among Hollywood’s most versatile writing teams. They’ve written projects in all genres for Warner Bros., Universal, 20th Century Fox, Disney, Freeform, MTV, Paramount, Hallmark, and Syfy, to name a few. 

They recently wrote the sequel to Deep Blue Sea, which was released in the summer of 2018 as a “tent pole” feature during Syfy’s “Shark Week” programming. They also recently completed three new original romantic comedies for Hallmark, after having written several hits for the network, including Love at First Bark (2017), Love on a Limb (2016), Love Under the Stars (2015), and The Christmas Note (2015). 

In 2014, they were nominated for their second Emmy Award for Best Writing on R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour, which won the Emmy for Outstanding Children’s Series for three consecutive years. They wrote fourteen episodes of The Haunting Hour during its four season run. In 2012, they won the Humanitas Prize for their Disney Channel Original Movie Radio Rebel, and the 2010 WGA Award for Best Children’s Script for their Warner Bros. feature, Another Cinderella Story.

In November 2021, their movies Sister Swap: Christmas in the City and Sister Swap: A Hometown Holiday premiered on Hallmark.

Their horror movie Abandoned, starring Emma Roberts, Michael Shannon, and John Gallagher Jr., is now available on VOD.