Magic Strand | We apply professional, real‑world knowledge and experience to creative media projects

About us

Magic Strand provides expert input on international affairs and global security issues to the development of creative media projects.

We bring professional credibility and historical context to fiction and skilled research and knowledge to non-fiction. Our network of consultants has worked in international diplomacy, intelligence and security roles in the UK and across the world. Magic Strand has provided advice on screenplay and character development to major US and UK film and TV production companies.

Who we are

Magic Strand was founded in 2018 by former British government intelligence professionals.

Our Director, Christopher Steele, has a close and personal involvement in all Magic Strand projects, drawing on extensive professional experience in government and the corporate intelligence business over 30 years.

Christopher is widely respected as an international affairs and intelligence expert and well known from his work as a founder and Director of Orbis Business Intelligence Ltd (www.orbisbi.com).

What we do

Magic Strand has worked with Hollywood film producers and award winning screen writers, national TV broadcasters and independent production companies on a variety of projects.

These include providing input to script and plot for a major US motion picture; bringing detailed realism to a UK TV organised crime drama series and providing expert professional knowledge to a historical documentary series.

Magic Strand contributes international politics, security and intelligence expertise and insight from consultants with extensive personal and professional experience in these fields.

Testimonial

“As the world around us becomes more frightening and harder to understand, the need for authenticity in film and television making becomes ever more important. Magic Strand is able to inject that critical ingredient into film making: a profound understanding of how the real world works below the surface. Drawing on decades of experience investigating the dark underbelly of business and politics, Magic Strand will transform an idea that appears preposterous into one which is gritty and real.”

Misha Glenny, Author ‘McMafia’