Loglines & Screenplays by Bradford Richardson

GENRES: Family, Music

When teenage singer-songwriter, Ally Bailey, leads her band to ditch school and crash a major audition in the city, her father, a self-involved one-hit-wonder, arrives in time to see her prove she's got the heart & talent to go further than he ever could. The last thing Ally wants is his help.

Comps - Imagine THE ACES as high school seniors, with the fierce determination to share their music with the world.

Semifinalist, ScreenCraft Pilot Launch Competition, (SING IT).

GENRES: Comedy, Romance

When real-estate rivals Grace and Alex submit matching bids to buy Christmas Manor, the manor’s whimsical owner proposes a tie-breaker: a scavenger hunt within the manor with a Christmas Eve deadline to solve nine clues leading to the key to the manor. Grace and Alex reluctantly team-up, race to untangle the clues, and try not to fall for each other.

Comps: The competitive & collaborative conflict of CHAMPAGNE PROBLEMS. The rivalry, banter and mutual goal of saving Winter's Inn in SNOWED-INN CHRISTMAS. Plus, WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING: Lucy’s determination to make her happily-ever-after come true. 

GENRES: Comedy, Romance

When fast-rising Children’s Author, Hannah learns her Mom’s cookie shop needs help two-hundred miles away, she and new friend, Handyman Vlogger, Josh, ditch the itinerary-driven Christmas weekend they're at, (planned by two Type-A Agents competing to be the first to sign one of them), and hop on the last train out. The Agents race to catch up, and these four wind-up on two wildly different yet converging holiday road-trips into romance.

Comps: The romantic dilemma of "dating the wrong guy when the right guy comes along" in both THE LIFE LIST and SOMETHING FROM TIFFANY'S (2023) meets PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES.

GENRES: Comedy, Romance

Sarah never expected her Christmas Wish "for help to save her Holiday Bookshop" would lead to her music-box-Nutcracker being brought to life. Stuck with her wide-eyed, eager guest until Christmas Eve, Sarah struggles to keep his identity a secret while they confront embarrassing roommate moments; bookshop mix-ups; Sarah's snooping Father; plus a nefarious Toy Collector; oh, and the discovery of the Nutcracker’s true heroic origin which leads them to hope this Christmas Wish never ends.

Comps: It's the fairytale magic of THE KNIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS and ENCHANTED meets the romance of ELF.

A Stage 32 Double-Recommended Screenplay!

GENRES: Drama, Science Fiction

Right Now: A fugitive group of seven exceptional twenty-year-olds, covertly bioengineered with evolved abilities by rogue extraterrestrials, must find a way to inspire humankind to begin living sustainably with Earth before the Alliance of Worlds’ countdown to humanity’s annihilation runs out.
(Pitch Deck available)

Comps: Imagine a story which precedes DISCLOSURE DAY. This is an ensemble-driven sci-fi pilot with the government intrigue of THE X-FILES, STRANGER THINGS and THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY.

Semifinalist: Stage 32’s 7th Annual Sci-Fi/Fantasy Screenwriting Competition 2023.

GENRES: Drama, Family

Psychiatrist Beth Keene is on the verge of burn-out. When an incident with an influential ex-patient results in Beth’s unjust suspension, she’s required to serve six months as a Crisis Hotline Operator where the ensemble of misfits she must work with to save unhinged callers leads her to rediscover the good in people, and herself.

Comps - The dark revealing humor and heart of SHRINKING.

GENRES: Action, Horror

Philly Paramedic, Jordan Ames, grew-up with two ghost-kids from the 80's as his best friends. When he uses the prototype ghost-tech he built to help them cross-over, he accidentally leads them into the grip of an escaped Demon who needs their souls to buy his freedom from the underworld. Can Jordan rescue the ghost-kids before it's too late?

SCREAMFEST 2nd Place Winner.

Comps: The depth of character and supernatural action of SINNERS meets the action hijinx of GHOSTBUSTERS.

GENRES: Action, Period Piece

1974. Twin Falls, Idaho. Three aimless high-schoolers share the wildest summer of their lives working behind-the-scenes of Evel Knievel's death-defying Skycycle Jump across the Snake River Canyon. On the night before the big jump these nobodies become the only ones who can prevent a Hell's Angels gang from destroying Knievel’s Skycycle.

Comps: The loyalty & fearlessness of the GOONIES meets the banter, romance and stunts of THE FALL GUY (2024).

Semi-Finalist, 2023 Outstanding Screenplays Feature Competition.

Semi-Finalist in Amazon Studios', Best Screenplay Competition, 2011 (as Reckless Wheels). 

GENRES: Action, Adventure

Every legacy has an origin. Summer 1941. World War II takes a dark turn when Nazis, desperate for petroleum, invade Ukraine. Eighteen-year-old James Bond stows away on his parents' urgent mission for MI6 to extract a Ukrainian scientist and his revolutionary formula for synthetic petroleum. They're double-crossed.

2nd Place Winner, New Hope Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA.