Ryan Clarke has over 20 feature-length screenplays, one short and a Pilot for a limited series.
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GENRE: Dark Satire / Dramedy
TONE: Heathers meets Network in the age of TikTok, filtered through the modern grief-content economy.
ESTIMATED BUDGET: Low-to-mid Indie/scalable
When a dying boy becomes a symbol too valuable to recover, his secret remission threatens his relationship with the girl he loves and a grief economy that depends on him staying terminal.
GENRE: Psychological Drama / Social Satire
TONE / COMPS: The Breakfast Club meets The Menu
BUDGET: Low / contained single-location ensemble drama
When six elite scholarship finalists are accidentally locked in a glass-walled university waiting room during a record-breaking heatwave, their polished resumes and leadership narratives collapse into a survival test that exposes what the meritocracy really rewards.
GENRE: Tech Thriller / Dark Satire
TONE / COMPS: The Social Network meets Nightcrawler through a Black Mirror lens
BUDGET: Low-to-mid / tech-driven satire with targeted HUD VFX and a set-piece finale
After a grief-rigid actuary builds an AI system that turns morality into a point economy, he uses it to destroy his charismatic rival, only to trigger a deadly warehouse collapse and discover that the real profit is not in being good, but in selling virtue as data.
GENRE: Dark Comedy / Coming-of-Age Dramedy
TONE / COMPS: The Holdovers meets Whiplash
BUDGET: Low / contained school-set ensemble dramedy
When a washed-up method actor is hired to direct a high school theatre troupe, his brutal old-school standards collide with a generation fluent in emotional boundaries, forcing both teacher and students to confront what art can demand when a district-censored production pushes their most guarded student into the spotlight.
GENRE: Sci-Fi / Psychological Thriller / Comedy
TONE / COMPS: Ex Machina meets 10 Cloverfield Lane
BUDGET: Low-to-mid / contained tech horror with targeted VFX
Raised in isolation by a maternal AI after an apparent global extinction event, a lonely man is given the perfect companion, only to discover she is part of a reproductive program and he is not the last survivor on Earth. He is livestock.
GENRE: Sci-Fi Drama / Thriller
TONE / COMPS: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind meets The Father, with the corporate unease of Severance
ESTIMATED BUDGET: Low-to-mid / contained, character-driven sci-fi
To pay for his wife’s dementia care, a devoted husband sells his memories to a billionaire who has never been able to feel love, slowly hollowing himself out while the buyer becomes consumed by a life that was never his.
GENRE: Elevated Body Horror / Psychological Thriller
TONE / COMPS: Hereditary meets The Substance, with the rural nightmare quality of Pearl
BUDGET: Low-to-mid
When a desperate New Mexico farmer discovers his daughter’s tears produce a euphoric wine, he turns the family vineyard into an extraction farm, until the daughter he has harvested and the sister he trained to guard her join forces to destroy the buyers who now own them.
GENRE: High-Concept Tech Thriller
TONE / COMPS: Nightcrawler meets Mr. Robot
BUDGET: Mid-budget / stylized urban tech thriller
A vigilante crew uses weaponized camera flashes to expose corrupt elites, but when a tech mogul manipulates them into stealing the city’s facial-recognition grid, they must turn their own blinding technology into a final trap.
GENRE: Sci-Fi Satire / Absurdist Comedy
TONE / COMPS: The Lobster meets Severance, with the visual precision of Playtime
BUDGET: Low-to-mid / design-driven satire with choreographed sound and movement
In a silent, color-coded future where every gesture is regulated, a rule-bound technical writer discovers a vibrating anomaly that teaches him rhythm, forcing him to choose between remaining safely calibrated and waking his world to the chaos of being alive.
GENRE: Sci-Fi / Dystopian Thriller
TONE / COMPS: The Matrix meets 1984
ESTIMATED BUDGET: High-budget / VFX-heavy studio or streamer sci-fi
When a loyal custodian of a synthetic utopia is forced into the brutal reality beneath it, she must team with a hardened rebel to expose the machine she once served, only to discover that most people would rather survive inside a beautiful lie than suffer in the truth.
GENRE: Dark Comedy / Crime Thriller
SETTING: The Bronx, New York, 1932
TONE / COMPS: Fargo meets The Banshees of Inisherin, set in the grime/desperation of Depression-era New York
BASED ON: Inspired by true events
BUDGET: Low-to-mid
In 1932 New York, a desperate speakeasy owner and a ruthless undertaker insure the life of a cheerful homeless Irishman, then spiral into madness when every attempt to kill him only seems to make him stronger.
GENRE: Historical Drama / Psychological Biopic
TONE / COMPS: Oppenheimer meets A Beautiful Mind/visual intensity of The Tree of Life
BUDGET: Mid-budget
After Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann accidentally discovers LSD, he champions it as a breakthrough psychiatric medicine, only to watch the molecule escape the laboratory into military abuse, political panic, and counterculture mythology, forcing him to confront the limits of controlling a discovery that reveals the mind itself.
Format: 6-Episode Prestige Limited Series | One-Hour Historical Drama
A tragic portrait of Timothy Leary’s transformation from brilliant Harvard psychologist to counterculture messiah, a man who could map the human mind but could not live inside his own.
GENRE: Coming-of-Age Dramedy / Family Drama
SETTING: Guerneville and Palo Alto, California
TONE / COMPS: Lady Bird meets The Meyerowitz Stories
BUDGET: Low / contained, actor-driven indie drama
When a brilliant working-class teenager earns a full ride to Stanford, her fiercely dependent father finds every excuse to stay near campus, forcing her to survive a world built for the wealthy while he confronts the grief he has mistaken for protection.
Genre: Drama/Indie/Tragicomedy
Setting: Albuquerque, New Mexico (Present Day)
Comps: The Fisher King meets King Lear.
Facing eviction from a city park, a former stage legend with schizophrenia rallies a makeshift troupe of unhoused neighbors to stage a production of King Lear, hoping an obscure legal loophole will classify their encampment as a protected Cultural Heritage Site before the bulldozers arrive.
GENRE: Drama / Thriller / Disaster Survival
SETTING: Texas Panhandle, present day
TONE / COMPS: The Florida Project meets Hell or High Water, with the third-act disaster intensity of Twister
BUDGET: Mid-budget
In a neglected Texas trailer park buckling under poverty, poisoned water, and old resentments, a struggling mother and her twelve-year-old daughter must survive the day when a violent ex-husband arrives just as an EF4 tornado bears down on the only home they have left.
GENRE: Coming-of-Age Drama
COMPS: Pump Up the Volume meets Ghost World
BUDGET: Low + Music Rights
Two alienated young women launch a pirate radio station from a Cold War bunker hidden inside an abandoned mall. But when their anonymous broadcast becomes a lifeline for their dying town, they must choose between staying safely invisible and letting themselves be known.
GENRE: Queer Punk Drama / Coming-of-Age
SETTING: Olympia, Washington, 1991
TONE / COMPS: The Runaways meets Bottoms
BUDGET: Low-to-mid
In the male-dominated punk scene of 1991 Olympia, an abrasive queer college radical turns a cut-and-paste zine and a chaotic punk band into weapons against the boys’ club, but when backlash threatens her girlfriend’s future and fractures the band, she has to learn that a movement cannot survive on rage alone.
GENRE: Indie Drama / Romance
SETTING: American Southwest to Pacific Northwest, 1977
TONE / COMPS: Past Lives meets Blue Valentine, with the road-worn artist melancholy of Inside Llewyn Davis
BUDGET: Low-to-mid / intimate period road drama
Six years after his ego destroyed their life together, a former poet turned desert rigger drives to the Pacific Northwest to apologize to the painter he drove away, only to realize redemption may mean leaving her new life untouched.
GENRE: Road Trip / Dark Dramedy
SETTING: TX to CA, 1978
TONE/COMPS: Nebraska meets Planes, Trains and Automobiles
BUDGET: Low-to-mid
Two estranged brothers, an anxious public defender drowning in debt and a chain-smoking drifter who treats the highway like home, are forced to drive their dead father’s decrepit station wagon across the Southwest to claim a mysterious inheritance, only to discover the real bequest is the disastrous journey that brings them back to each other.
FORMAT: Short Film
GENRE: Coming-of-Age Dramedy
TONE / COMPS: Lady Bird meets Ghost World
BUDGET: Low
After a devastating casting rejection, a melodramatic high school theater kid retreats into a ritualized pity party with her best friend, only to discover that the friend has been hiding an early college acceptance, forcing both girls to confront the end of their carefully preserved childhood.
GENRE: Comedy / Mockumentary / Sports Biopic SatireSETTING: Albuquerque, Las Vegas, competitive eating circuit
TONE / COMPS: Popstar: Never Stop Never Stoppmeets Dodgeball, Talladega Nights
BUDGET: Mid budget
A couch-bound eating savant with a titanium spork rises from an Albuquerque garage to competitive-eating superstardom, but when fame costs him the woman who turned him into a legend, he must decide whether he wants to keep feeding his ego or finally become full.
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