Ryan Johnston

CEO at Simply Resistible Productions
Screenwriter and Producer

Saskatoon, Canada

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About Ryan

Ryan Johnston is a screenwriter and independent producer from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Ryan owns and operates Simply Resistible Productions, where he’s currently self-publishing an Adult Comedy graphic novel that he and his creative partner wrote and created, called "High Noon Vol. 1 - The Dead Man’s Mustache." For twelve years, Ryan has worked in the bar industry, where for the last five he was a managing partner of 15 bars across Canada.

Ryan attended the Vancouver Film School, where he graduated with a diploma in Screenwriting.

Ryan’s portfolio currently consists of:
- Two Action/Comedy feature-length scripts - one of which recently placed as a quarter-finalist in the Stage 32 Action/Thriller Screenplay Competition.
- One Animated Comedy feature.
- Two single-camera Comedy TV pilots.
- Two Adult Comedy animated series, one qualified as high as semi-finals in the ScreenCraft Animation Screenplay Competition and the other as high as quarter-finals in the Stage 32 Animation Screenplay competition.

Ryan’s currently co-writing a Romantic Comedy and working on his own Action/Comedy feature-length. If Ryan isn’t writing or producing, he’s proudly taking care of his beautiful 6-year-old daughter and selling property in Mexico's Riviera Maya.

Unique traits: He's outgoing, fun, personable, and brings an infectious energy to any situation.

Gender:
Male

Height:
5' 11"

Weight:
200

Body type:
Athletic

Hair:
Medium

Hair color:
Brown

Eyes:
Blue

Ethnicity:
Caucasian

Photos

Loglines

Hallows Eve High Budget: $10M - $30M | Family ⋄ Animation The teenage son of Frankenstein travels to the Human Realm in search of monster hunting technology, taking on angry mobs, witches, and his own insecurities to create a camera filter that will allow his vampire crush to finally be seen on monster media.
Club Fred Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy In an attempt to never grow up, a keen party boy takes a job at a Mexican resort only to find himself surrounded by love triangles, debaucherous guests, and cultural differences forcing him to do a lot more growing up than expected.
Baby Blues Budget: $100K - $1M | Drama ⋄ Comedy A wanna-be playboy's life is turned upside down when he goes home for a friend's wedding and impregnates a young mother of two.
El Güero Budget: $1M - $5M | Action ⋄ Comedy After being kidnapped by a Mexican cartel, a lonely, overbearing tourist looks to fit in by helping the cartel rob Mexico’s most dangerous drug lord, throwing him into a world of drugs, crime, and rival gangs.
FTW Budget: $100K - $1M | Adventure ⋄ Comedy After shaking on a bet to see who can have sex with someone from every country, a group of eccentric coworkers travel around Europe to up the stakes and learn about life, love, and friendship while on the run from Romania's most notorious mob boss.
Livin' The Afterlife Budget: $0 - $100K | Animation ⋄ Comedy A young, empathetic stoner dies and discovers his grandpa is a mafioso Don who runs the afterlife and must help him maintain the balance of good and evil before crossing over into heaven.
High Noon Budget: $0 - $100K | Animation ⋄ Comedy After a run-in with The Lawmen, an overbearing swindler, a weary gun-for-hire, and the semi-mystical creature known as Bigfoot decide to move their grow operation and must fight off gangs, con artists, and money-hungry bureaucrats to become the first known weed growers and dealers in history.
Turn Back Time Budget: $1M - $5M | Action ⋄ Comedy After learning that their ex-classmate has become an evil tyrant who’s set to destroy the world, two assassins and a bounty hunter are sent back in time to put a stop to the oppressor, only to find that their past actions may have been the source of his evil ways.