John Stephen Howard
“You have a real knack for taking things that are very classic and making them fresh ways."
Screenwriter
Santa Clarita, California
July 2025
1 day ago
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About John
Career Goals
write genre features inspired by classic tropes that appeal to a broad audience.
Ideal Intellectual Properties
write an Asimov-style sci-fi limited series.
Life Experience
Achievements
Red Lister
Made it on the Red List
Going Places
Bought 5th coverage
5 Stars
Entered 5th competition
Awards
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Seconrd Rounder, 2024 Austin Film Festival
(2024) -
2022 Breaking Walls Thriller Contest
(2022)
Representation
Featured Projects
Work Experience
Loglines
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Wolf Out! Budget: $1M - $5M | Horror A preteen with anger issues drives his best friend away and must confront the true nature of loyalty to save him from what lurks in the forest.
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The Dragon in the Coal Mine Budget: $10M - $30M | Fantasy A rogue knight menaces a village with tales of monsters, but when a true danger threatens the villagers, a misfit dwarf saves them using reason and logic.
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Strange Fruit Budget: $1M - $5M | Horror When a white man loses his job after the pandemic, he moves in and renovates a plantation passed down by his family with dollar signs in his eyes, but his conscientious son finds an enslaved boy's journal that unleashes a reckoning.
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A Switch in Time Budget: $10M - $30M | Fantasy A wallflower teenager switches bodies with his larger-than-life archeologist grandfather after inadvertently opening an ancient pharaoh’s portal, and together, they must prevent the enslavement of the world at ground zero, his high school dance.
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The Pandia Project Budget: $1M - $5M | Horror ⋄ Action A risk-averse college student attempts to rescue his uncle from a medical facility treating him for a virulent strand of Alzheimer's, but when faced with that experiment’s Variants, he must act fast to ensure their escape.
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The Guitar Pick from Hell Budget: $5M - $10M | Horror A struggling singer-songwriter turns to a mysterious guitar pick to write songs that unleash a demonic shadow on his muses, and he must choose between real love or real fame tainted by murder.
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NostradamusGPT Budget: $5M - $10M | Thriller ⋄ Comedy To redeem himself, a college student who cheated on his paper using A.I. must decipher NostradamusGPT's cryptic predictions to uncover a secret society's misguided and sinister plot before they bring mayhem and murder to a university.
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My Fellow Earthlings Budget: $10M - $30M | Sci-fi The neglected ten-year-old son of the President befriends an alien who crashed in the Mojave Desert. But their friendship is in the crosshairs of their fathers' ambitions which threaten to throw the universe into chaos.
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Down the Spacestream Budget: $5M - $10M | Sci-fi A space miner revolts when the mineral he extracts from Europa could be the final nail in Earth’s coffin, and while his wife wants to maintain the status quo, his son must decide which path to follow.
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Hank's Getaway Diner Budget: $5M - $10M | Action ⋄ Drama A CIA assassin opens a diner in the middle of nowheresville to start over, but when he finds the love of his life and a bitter young man turns up from his past, he realizes peace is impossible until these worlds collide.
Education
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Murray State University
(1989-1994)
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