Screenplays & Teleplays
Screenplays & Teleplays
The following is a list of screenplays and/or teleplays Ran has written or adapted. They include television films, theatrical films, and television mini-series. None have been sold or optioned (people don�t know what they�re missing!). Should anyone be interested, Ran will gladly forward a copy to the interested party.
THE ADVENTURES OF BILLY SPACE BOY & HIS ASTRO DOG, ZAP!
Bumbling simpleton Billy Space Boy sets out to save the Universe from the evil Mad Dog and rescue Princess Linda. But he can�t do it without the coolest mut in the Universe, Zap the Astro Dog!
ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL (short film)
A handful of close friends fall victim to a local legend...one at a time.
BLACK SAM: A PIRATE'S TALE (4 hour TV miniseries)
In 1715 a pregnant teenage girl awaits her lover who has gone to sea in search of gold, but piracy, witchcraft, and tragedy await them both in this true story.
COLONIES
�Taxation without representation� in the Outer Colonies of the solar system causes a rebellion lead by a mysterious man no one has ever seen.
FRANKENSTEIN'S LEGACY
A stem cell cloning research scientist inherits a haunted "Old World" family estate - Castle Frankenstein.
THE GIRL WHO WALKED IN CIRCLES (w/Mike Minnis)
In legend-haunted Dunwich, a teenage girl with strange powers has designs on the new headmaster.
Joseph Sheridan LeFanu's CARMILLA (adaption)
A young lady strikes up a friendship with a mysterious young woman who turns out to be a centuries old countess and vampire.
MCKINNEY: THE LAST OUTLAW
It�s 1902 California in this true story. A gunslinger shoots up a small town, then flees to Mexico. A year later he returns. Holed up in a Chinese opium den in Bakersfield, he prepares to fight it out as the law closes in.
SILENT SLEIGH BELLS
During the Great Depression, a young boy has lost his belief in Santa Claus, but a chance encounter with a mysterious man searching for a sleigh helps restore the young boy�s belief.
SUMMONING TSATHOGGUA (Lovecraftian short film)
Obsessed and dominated by the toad god, Tsathoggua, a young woman attempts to call the toad god forth. But it isn�t the first time it�s happened.
Jules Verne�s FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON (adaption)
It�s enough to captivate the world when a group of Civil War veterans propose to fire a projectile to the moon from a huge canon, but then a Frenchman has a proposal all his own...to go along for the ride.
