Ryan Frances-Wright

Logline: Years after losing his family in a mysterious disaster, a grieving security analyst is offered the impossible: a chance to see them again by helping a powerful but secretive organization repair fractured timelines. The catch? He must kill a version of himself in another timeline and take his place. But as he slips further into a life that isn’t his, he’s forced to confront the painful truth that he may never belong in a family he’s already mourned. Halcyon is a mind-bending sci-fi thriller about identity, grief, and what it means to hold on when everything around you is falling apart.

Bio: Ryan Frances-Wright is a screenwriter whose work blends genre with grounded emotional stakes, often sneaking big ideas into stories about deeply flawed, lovably odd people (including himself). He’s obsessed with character, especially the kind who make terrible decisions for painfully relatable reasons. Originally from the high desert of Palmdale, California, he recently completed his MFA in Dramatic Writing at NYU and is now based in New York, seeking work in story development. Ideally, somewhere surrounded by fellow oddballs. He writes to entertain, but also to explore the human condition, hoping his stories remind other weirdos they’re not as alone as they think.

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