John Radtke

Unique traits: I love writing comedy and high concept screenplays. I love history.

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  Confidence - TV Pilot Mystery ⋄ Drama A con artist family unknowingly steals one hundred million dollars from a drug lord. With their fates in the balance, they decide to enter the witness protection program while working to keep their dark past from being exposed, mending their fractured family.

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  Cries Of The Dead Budget: $1M - $5M | Mystery ⋄ Thriller  A widowed sheriff discovers a list of GPS coordinates that lead him to multiple unmarked graves. After learning his wife’s DNA was found among the victims, he must prove his wife’s innocence while searching for the true killer.   

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  Last Of The Good Men Budget: $1M - $5M | Mystery ⋄ Sci-fi Aliens abduct a man and give him an ultimatum: kill half of his town's inhabitants within forty-eight hours, or they will annihilate everyone. Faced with an impossible choice, he must navigate this moral nightmare to save his community.

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  Shot Through The Heart Budget: $1M - $5M | Comedy ⋄ Action A hit woman's perfect record is in jeopardy after falling for a suicidal man who hires her to kill him, now she must protect him from her overbearing mother, who wants him dead.

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  Sex God Budget: $1M - $5M | Comedy ⋄ Romance A car salesman, convinced he's participating in a reality show to find his soulmate, uncovers a shocking truth: he's the unwitting star of a viral adult sex show."

• Semi-Finalist Emerging Screenwriters contest
  (2024)

• Quarterfinalist Emerging Screenwriting contest
  (2021)

• Semi-Finalist Big Break Screenwriting Contest
  (2019)

• Winner of Scripped Elevator Pitch Contest
  (2014)

• Finalist Palm Street Films Short Contest
  (2012)

• Finalist Spike TV pilot contest
  (2011)