Ron Schaefer

THE DUCHESS TAKES A LOVER Budget: $0 - $100K | Comedy A nouveau-riche merchant's daughter is drafted by a cash-poor duke to be his wife and pay off debts, but his philandering ways makes him a target for revenge by both bride and the groom's aunt.

THE WORLD & THE SPIRIT Budget: $0 - $100K | Period Piece A Navy administrator must manage and entire province of rain forest in New Guinea, when a native uprising is swelling, and bureaucratic prejudices add further obstacles.

THE MINISTER'S SEAL Budget: $0 - $100K | Period Piece Two Ministers on opposing sides of the former King and the pretender to the throne, battle it out through the use of spies, to gain dominance for the new regime.

MARIE'S LOVERS Budget: $0 - $100K | Romance 4 tales of love and loss from medieval France from the mouth of Marie de France.

THE BOOK OF THOTH Budget: $0 - $100K | Fantasy Son of Pharaoh, in order to become a more powerful magician, pursues the secrets hidden in the Book of Thoth, supposedly written by Thoth, God of Magic, himself, only to find he can't control what he finds inside its contents.

INANNA Budget: $0 - $100K | Fantasy The Queen of Heaven heads into the Underworld to retrieve magic tablets only to be held prisoner and can only be released at the promise of someone else to take her place -- like her husband.

OJIBWAY JUNKET Budget: $0 - $100K | Fantasy Three short stories from the Eastern Woodland tribes, filled with magic and fantasy: MANABOZHO; THE BUFFALO DANCE; &, KEEWAYDIN & THE GRANITE MAN.

WALLENSTEIN Budget: $0 - $100K | Period Piece Adaptation and Revision of Friedrich Schiller's play about a misunderstood officer of the Emperor who attempts to make peace with the enemy rather than conquering them only to have the Imperial forces betray him for cowardice.

COLOSSUS Budget: $0 - $100K | Period Piece A famed sculptor is hired by the King of Rhodes to build a gigantic statue at the mouth of the harbor, despite the natural obstacles that making it seem an impossible task.

BRAINS Budget: $0 - $100K | Science Fiction A doctor is sent to play investigator when a mysterious illness begins dissolving people's brains, and must find a vaccine, treatment, cure, or other preventative quickly when his own wife becomes infected.

SOCRATES Budget: $0 - $100K | Biopic / True Story A homespun philosopher in ancient Athens develops a string of followers and public admiration as well as the wrath of the ruling committee bent on his destruction.

OLLANTAY Budget: $0 - $100K | Adventure A military hero has fallen into a forbidden relation with the princess, and his rival is a general from the royal family; but when a siege goes badly, he is banished, forcing the couple to marry in secret against the chief's approval.

GUANINA Budget: $0 - $100K | Adventure A daughter of a tribal chief falls for a Spanish Conquistador, but when her brother raises a band of rebels to revolt, the uprising attempts to rip the lovers apart.

GRETTIR THE STRONG Budget: $0 - $100K | Period Piece An outlaw takes possession of an island he claims is his, but the resident thinks otherwise and relentlessly pursues him when the court fails to rule in his favor.

SOOTER'S GAME Budget: $0 - $100K | Western A poor traveler, having lost everything is willing to put up his wife as a bet in a con man's game dealing magic voodoo bones.

BLACK BABY Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama A farmer's wife rescues a Black woman and her baby in a world where Black people are illegal.

LOVES & ROMANS Budget: $0 - $100K | Romance Ovid leads a full compliment of Roman poets through the trials and tribulations of love.

VINLAND Budget: $0 - $100K | Period Piece Leif Eirikson leaves Greenland and finds and entirely new continent on which to settle his family.

TALES OF GREAT CHIVALRY Budget: $0 - $100K | Fantasy At the beginning of their careers, King Arthur and his knights are confronted with various strong and magical challengers who threaten to break apart the newly formed Round Table of Knights-errants.

MINNEEWAUMATO Budget: $0 - $100K | Period Piece A British artist comes to America to get in on the adventure of the western expansion, signs on as a railroad surveyor, falls for a chief's daughter, and becomes a go-between for railroad and natives, to the jealousy of others.

BEYOND THE SHADOWED VEIL Budget: $0 - $100K | Horror 3 ghostly tales from Mesoamerica: The She Demon; The Jaguar Man; The Goddess of the Lake

LET'S KILL HENRY Budget: $0 - $100K | Comedy A bored upper crust family spending summer at their country estate decide to kill a cousin as a diversion only to find he has a talent for staying alive.

TRIAL OF THE WOLF Budget: $0 - $100K | Period Piece A cleric tries to expose a baron of the abduction and murder of dozens of children in the Nantes region of France.

OH SHIT Budget: $0 - $100K | Comedy An unlucky handyman has a habit of accidentally killing people he encounters.

HYPATIA Budget: $0 - $100K | Period Piece Daughter of a famous philosopher herself becomes famous as scientist and teacher until the church steps in and proclaims her a danger to society and an enemy of the church.

SAVITRI Budget: $0 - $100K | Fantasy A king's daughter refuses to have him pick a husband for her, and goes out on her own to find one, discovering a woodsman who is actually a prince in exile; but when they unite in marriage, she discovers that Yama, the God of Death, has been pursuing him, and she bargains with the demon for her husband's life.

SOUTH AMERICA: The Search For El Dorado Budget: $0 - $100K | Period Piece A friar assigned as a journalist aboard a merchant vessel exploring the South American interior is the lone survivor of a Carib Indian attack and has to make his way on foot to find his way to another ship in order to return to Hispaniola.

GARDENS OF THE MOON Budget: $0 - $100K | Mystery 8 medieval Japanese ghostly folktales are told from the view from the shoreline.

THE DIVINE MARQUIS Budget: $10M - $30M | Period Piece Donatien-Alphonse de Sade is raised equally by a rich family and a reprobate deacon in pre-revolutionary France, and becomes incarcerated for his many depraved outings only to become one of the leading voices during the revolution in attempting for political reform.

CARAVANSARAI Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama A group of war refugees fleeing the battle zone on a bus through the Libyan desert are trapped in a sandstorm and are taking to an ancient caravansery to plan their next move when the German army shows up to occupy the place.

THE MILK OF THE ONION Budget: $0 - $100K | Western The two wealthiest families in an Ozark pass clash when the hot-headed sons of both families get into a spat over a minor perceived slight, forcing the entire valley to take sides.

MUSTANGS Budget: $1M - $5M | Other A mustang colt must grow up quickly through starvation, weather, rivals, & humans, to survive long enough to start his own herd.

WAKE UP SCREAMING Budget: $0 - $100K | Horror A young couple, caught in a storm, seek refuge at the house of a doctor who kidnaps people and uses them for his medical experiments.

WINDIGO Budget: $5M - $10M | Horror A Scottish grad is pulled from his studies for a Canadian hunting trip who gets attacked by a mysterious entity forcing a return journey to save his companion as well as his own sanity.

THE PRIEST & THE WHORE Budget: $0 - $100K | Other A priest in a small border town helps a young prostitute escape into the United States when her brothel discovers she's a runaway.

The Dramas of Ron HS Schaefer Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama Anthology of collected early dramas.

CRISPUS ATTUCKS Budget: $0 - $100K | Period Piece A runaway slave signs on to a whaling ship and becomes a skilled harpoonier, but returns to his home to take up the cause of the colonial rebels after seeing the slave trade in the Caribbean.

NRA Budget: $10M - $30M | Period Piece A Texas boy rises from Border Patrol to the most powerful lobbyist in Washington despite a murder charge and party opposition.

AMANUENSIS Budget: $0 - $100K | Other A ghost writer takes a job to write the "autobiography" of a New York cabbie, but becomes conflicted about the job when he discovers he actually writing a ridiculous heroic fantasy.

BLOOD Budget: $0 - $100K | Horror A suburban ranch house is the setting over a 50 year span of occupants having to contend with ghosts after a string of murder/suicides.

KKK: The Making of an Invisible Empire Budget: $10M - $30M | Period Piece An Ex-Confederate Officer and full-time huckster creates a socio-political fraternity out of a failed reformation group to become one of the biggest political machines in history.  

MOUNTAIN MEN Budget: $0 - $100K | Horror College boys with time off from school, head to the mountains for a few days of hunting and fishing, but instead find their rented cabin haunted by creatures leaving a trail of corpses behind.

THE COMEDIES OF RON HS SCHAEFER Budget: $0 - $100K | Other Anthology of comedy scripts from Ron HS Schaefer.Amazon.com/authors/kindle/B07BB6N66N

THE WAR BASED DRAMAS OF RON HS SCHAEFER Budget: $0 - $100K | Other Anthology of war dramas by Ron HS Schaefer

GHOSTS & GRAVES Budget: $0 - $100K | Horror Anthology of 8 short stories about various excursions into the worlds beyond the veil.

FARCICAL FABLES Budget: $0 - $100K | Comedy 6 stories set in the realm of people out of whack.

SALLE D'ARMES: The Story of Jeal Louis Michel Budget: $5M - $10M | Period Piece An orphan from St. Domingue crosses the ocean to join the French Army, becoming Napoleon’s most famous swordsman despite the racial prejudice against him.

TORMENTS OF THE DAMNED Budget: $0 - $100K | Western A local preacher, entering a dispute between families, tries to save a girl from abuse who is the product of a rape/murder, and in the process is accused himself of the crime.

A SHREW FOR A WIFE Budget: $0 - $100K | Comedy A mid-management businessman is sent from London to 1890s Providence, Rhode Island, against his wishes, to supervise the new American division of the company, but finds the American lifestyle, and his wife's interest in Women's voting rights, impossible.

PROFESSIONAL RELATIONS Budget: $5M - $10M | Comedy Faced with an irresponsible Ex, a job full of backstabbers & lotharios, & a neglected brood, a businesswoman packs up kids & best friend and heads west for adventures in dude ranches, casinos, & theme parks to regain her wits and her family.

JORDANA DAVIS Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama A smalltown businessman and local despot becomes unhinged when his only daughter takes up with a boy from the "wrong side of the tracks" on the night he is to be awarded businessman of the year.

DAY OF THE DEVIL Budget: $5M - $10M | Period Piece A slow-witted Black man is accused of murdering a young White girl in a Texas border town leading to the most infamous execution in Texas history.

THE EVER DARKENING NIGHT Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama A group of survivalists gather in a mountain retreat to fend off an assumed attack of federal troops, but when they don't arrive, they begin taking their aggressions out on each other.

CURIOSITIES Budget: $0 - $100K | Other Anthology of short stories of strange events.

THE RAT CELLAR Budget: $0 - $100K | Comedy A college professor rents a hotel basement to hide from the world while he writes his biography of Napoleon, only to discover he shares his apartment with a family of giant talking rats.

NIGHT RIDE Budget: $5M - $10M | Science Fiction On a night when ghostly monsters appear, a Cool Inspector races his truck of misfits to the city under attack to rescue his Ex.

THE CHRISTMAS TREE SHIP Budget: $5M - $10M | Period Piece A family struggles with the wrath of the November weather in its attempt to battleLake Michigan to transport Christmas trees to the people of Chicago in 1898

THE SEA WATCHERS Budget: $0 - $100K | Comedy A theatrical family spends the summer on a rented house on the eastern shore to become reacquainted with themselves, each other, and repair any old riffs that have taken place over the past.

MACHINE Budget: $5M - $10M | Science Fiction An ex-con, being chased by police, discovers a wrecked spaceship with an escape pod that he uses for a getaway vehicle to make it across the border.

KOTKA VESKI Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama A boy's family vacation's in the post-WWI Baltics when a German army officer and his staff overtake the place as WWII begins, forcing them to flee, and the boy encouraged to join the RAF espionage staff.

3RD DEGREE Budget: $0 - $100K | Film Noir An interrogator for the mob is himself interrogated by his former mentor when an issue of missing funds is aimed in his direction.

HELL Budget: $0 - $100K | Other An American ex-patriot coming back from the Spanish Civil War and disgruntled with humanity, books passage on a tramp steamer bound for the Caribbean to drink away his troubles, only to find he is onboard with a Nazi gun-runner supplying South American rebels for their various insurrections.

BLEAK WINTER Budget: $0 - $100K | Mystery When a field biochemist gets stranded on what he thinks is an uninhabited island, he finds himself first rescued, and later held hostage, by an old man and his two precocious daughters for a nefarious purpose of his own.

THE WELL AT THE END OF THE WORLD Budget: $5M - $10M | Military/War A young lieutenant in the army engineer corps is forced to send his men to dig a water hole in the middle of the desert for the frontlines despite the war going on around him.

PAIN Budget: $0 - $100K | Horror A surgeon with an obsession with an actress is called into duty to save her husband, a pianist, who is badly injured in a trainwreck and must have his hands amputated.

SET UPON BY THIEVES Budget: $10M - $30M | Adventure After being robbed and raped at gunpoint, the daughter of a French aristocrat hires one of the Royal Guardsman to teach her to fight, and to help her find the villain who attacked her.

PSI-WARRIOR Budget: $10M - $30M | Science Fiction A secret agent with psychic powers hunts an arms/drug dealer to bring him to justice and rescue his kidnapped lover.

BEGUILING EYES Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller / Suspense When a frustrated professor/novelist sees his lead character wandering around campus, he must find the secret to her existence before his obsession leads to psychosis and murder.  

SADNESS Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama 2 convicts and a suicide share an abandoned fishing shack together as they plan their escape to Mexico, but first they have to overcome their differences in order for it to work.

GORBODUC Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama A king divides his kingdom in two and gives them to his two sons, only to start a family rivalry and a civil war.

THE HUNTER & THE HUNTED Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama  A group of weekend hunters out in the woods looking for deer accidentally shoot a farmer's dog which upsets him enough to go out on a hunt for them.