Ryan Riley is an author and screenwriter in Los Angeles, California. He likes to pull readers in with an enticing hook, then challenge them to extract the deeper context of his layered narratives.

Take Back the Night

when scavengers come to their secluded farm,
Two parents will do anything to protect
their Unique daughter.

 

Take Back the Night film movie screenplay poster
“She’s the only human in a world of monsters. Monsters that would do anything to have her.”
— take back the night

"l wrote this script soon after we found out my wife was pregnant. I was terrified of being a parent. I wondered how a monster like me could raise an innocent child. That fear and insecurity led to the idea of TAKE BACK THE NIGHT,” Ryan has said of the script.

The parents in the story are vampires. They live in a world where all humans have been consumed or converted. But then the wife gives birth to the first human child in a century. How can these parents protect an innocent child from the monsters inside and outside the house?

The script is currently in development with New Regency and the creators of THE PURGE film series.

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