Biography
John Fusco is an American screenwriter, producer, and television series creator born in Prospect, Connecticut. His screenplays include Crossroads, Young Guns, Young Guns II, Thunderheart, Hidalgo, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron and The Highwaymen. He is also the creator of the Netflix series Marco Polo. Fusco is also a blues musician and a prose fiction author. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Fusco, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Complete Filmography
The Wind & the Reckoning
2022
Writer, Producer
As an outbreak of leprosy engulfs 19th-century colonial Hawai'i, a small group of infected Native Hawaiians resist government-mandated exile, taking a...
Spirit Untamed
2021
Writer
Lucky Prescott's life is changed forever when she moves from her home in the city to a small frontier town and befriends a wild mustang named Spirit.
The Highwaymen
2019
Writer
In 1934, Frank Hamer and Manny Gault, two former Texas Rangers, are commissioned to put an end to the wave of vicious crimes perpetrated by Bonnie Par...
The Shack
2017
Screenplay
A grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called 'The Shack'.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny
2016
Writer
A story of lost love, young love, a legendary sword and one last opportunity at redemption.
Marco Polo: One Hundred Eyes
2015
Writer
The episode shows the origin of Hundred Eyes and how his relationship with Kublai Khan and Prince Jingim came about. Before losing his sight and befo...
The Forbidden Kingdom
2008
Writer
An American teenager who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung-fu classics makes an extraordinary discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop: the legendar...
Hidalgo
2004
Screenplay
Set in 1890, this is the story of a Pony Express courier who travels to Arabia to compete with his horse, Hidalgo, in a dangerous race for a massive c...
Dreamkeeper
2003
Writer
In South Dakota, in an Indian reservation, an old storyteller Indian asks his grandson Shane, who is in trouble owing money to some bad guys, to take ...
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
2002
Screenplay
A captured mustang remains determined to return to his herd no matter what.
Loch Ness
1996
Writer
Dr. Dempsey, an American scientist, is sent to Scotland to disprove the existence of the Loch Ness Monster. He is shocked when Laura, an inn-keeper, i...
The Babe
1992
Producer, Screenplay
A chronicle of Babe Ruth's phenomenal story--from his hard knock beginnings at a Baltimore orphanage, to his meteoric rise to baseball superstardom an...
Thunderheart
1992
Producer, Screenplay
A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on a poverty-stricken Sioux reservation.
Young Guns II
1990
Screenplay, Executive Producer
Three of the original five "young guns" — Billy the Kid, Jose Chavez y Chavez, and Doc Scurlock — return in Young Guns, Part 2, which is the story of ...
Young Guns
1988
Executive Producer, Writer
A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. But when Billy takes t...
Crossroads
1986
Screenplay
A wanna-be blues guitar virtuoso seeks a long-lost song by legendary musician, Robert Johnson.
Phantom
N/A
Screenplay
Modern day adaptation of the 1910 Gaston Leroux novel "Phantom of the Opera" – that the famous musical is also based on – set in the sultry nightlife ...
Young Guns III
N/A
Writer
Plot kept under wraps. Third installment of the 'Young Guns' film franchise.
The Rescue
N/A
Screenplay
A modern day western in which a rodeo cowboy's skills are put to the test outside the arena.