HomeCurrent ProjectsRodeo & JulietClay Walker: Jesse JamesMiracle at Sage CreekHistory Channel: The Real Wyatt Earp7 MummiesPalominasDiamond RoseThe Hard RideLottie DenoThe RezBloody KnucklesTexas Hold EmJohnny KiddButtermilk SkyGold RunDiamond Lane BoysThe Magic SeasonThe Last HorsemanThe Prophet MarginRevolutionary ManBlood FightTaxidermistA MeadowLark CallingAbout Thadd Turner
Current Projects

FILMS, DOCUMENTARIES and MUSIC VIDEOS:

  • DIAMOND ROSE - Romantic Comedy.  Preproduction.
  • RODEO & JULIET - Family.  Completed.  Releases November 2015.
  • CLAY WALKER: JESSE JAMES - Country music legend Clay Walker transforms to outlaw Jesse James and takes on a gang of gunfighters.
  • KIDS IN THE YARD - Family.  Comedic look at lunch time recess in elementary school through the eyes of a 5th grade participant.  Written and co-directed by Wyatt Turner.
  • COWBOYS AND OUTLAWS: THE REAL WYATT EARP - Western/Docudrama.  WINNER 2010 Western Heritage Wrangler Award
  • MIRACLE AT SAGE CREEK - Family/Western.  WINNER 2006 Spur Award for Best Feature Drama from the Western Writers of America and NOMINATED 2006 Best Picture by the Golden Boot Awards.  Two families struggle to survive in 1880's Wyoming when a special Christmas miracle saves the life of a small boy.  David Carradine, Wes Studi, Irene Bedard, Michael Parks and Buck Taylor. NOW ON DVD through Universal Home Entertainment with Screen Media Films.  Visit the Internet Movie Data Base (IMDB) for great reviews at: IMDb user comments for Miracle at Sage Creek (2005)
  • SEVEN MUMMIES - Action/Horror.  Matt Shulze, Danny Trejo, Billy Drago, Cerina Vincent, Billy Wirth, and Andrew Bryniarski.  Escaped convicts search for a legendary lost treasure in a forgotten Old West town filled with a wicked sheriff and dead ghouls as they escape to the Mexico border.  NOW ON DVD through Image Entertainment.
  • TRUCE - Family Drama.  Buck Taylor, Samantha Dokes, Brad Johnson, George Kennedy.  Modern day rancher tries to keep his ranch out of foreclosure while learning to accept his grand daughter. Winner 2007 Western Heritage Award for Best Picture, Western Heritage Museum and National Cowboy Hall of Fame.

  • FILMS IN PRE-PRODUCTION:
      • TEXAS HOLD EM - Western.  Gambler stays one turn of the card ahead of his troubled past.  original story           Christine Mackenzie, screenplay by Thadd Turner.
    JOHNNY KIDD -  Family/adventure/fantasy.  Young boy and friends search for lost Spanish treasure stolen by 18th century Pirates.  Story by Wyatt Turner. 
    BUTTERMILK SKY - Family Drama.  Loner ex-rodeo rider turned Wild West show performer unwillingly befriends a street-wise orphan girl, as he tries to make amends with his former fiancee whom he left standing at the alter.   
    THE HARD RIDE - Western.  Fast-paced action story in the vein of Tombstone and Unforgiven about the exploits of legendary gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok and his close friends.   
  • THE REZ -  Cop Drama.  DEA agent fights the Mexican mob infiltrating an Arizona Indian reservation.  
    PALOMINAS - Western.  Rancher and down trodden Sheriff battle hired gunmen at the turn of the century.
    TAXIDERMIST -  Horror/Thriller.  Former surgeon kills and stuffs unsuspecting guests at an isolated bed and breakfast in hopes of finding a cure for his wife's flesh eating disease. 
    BLOODY KNUCKLES - Action.  Street fighter and his young protegies take on the gangs of Liberty City to take down a drug king. 
     
    FILMS IN DEVELOPMENT:
    A MEADOWLARK CALLING -  Family drama.  Young girl loses her father and must live with her abusive aunt on the 1890's Kansas frontier where she searches for love and hope.  From the book by Patricia Martin.   
    THE LAST HORSEMAN - Action/adventure.  Volunteer cavalry officer returns home from the Mexico War of 1848 and searches for his lost family.   
    GOLD RUN -  Action.  Best friends run for their lives after a gold heist goes bad in Mexico. 
    PROPHET MARGIN -  Sci-fi/thriller.  Wealthy media-mogul opens time travel to record the live birth of Christ for profit. 
    REVOLUTIONARY MAN -Sci-fi Action.  Soldier jumps through time from battle to battle to be killed and resurrected.