John Logan

John Logan

1961-09-24 San Diego, California, USA 33 Credits

Biography

John David Logan (born September 24, 1961) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and producer. He is known for his work as a screenwriter for films such as Ridley Scott's Gladiator (2000), Martin Scorsese's The Aviator (2004) and Hugo (2011), Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) and Sam Mendes' James Bond films Skyfall (2012), and Spectre (2015). He has been nominated three times for Academy Awards, and has won a Tony Award and a Golden Globe Award. Description ...

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Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters

Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters

2024

as Self

8.5
Acting

A look at Hammer’s progression from a back office in London’s Regent Street to its iconic status within the horror film genre. The company, started by...

They/Them

They/Them

2022

Director, Executive Producer, Writer

4.7
Directing Producing Writing

Campers at an LGBTQ+ conversion camp endure unsettling psychological techniques while the campsite is stalked by a mysterious killer.

Rothko: Pictures Must Be Miraculous

Rothko: Pictures Must Be Miraculous

2019

as Himself

Acting

Mark Rothko, a master of abstract expressionism, created 835 paintings during his five-decade career.

Red

Red

2018

Theatre Play

4.5

Under the watchful gaze of his young assistant, the artist Mark Rothko takes on his greatest challenge yet: to create a definitive series of paintings...

Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Phobos

Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Phobos

2017

Producer

6.6
Producing

A darkly twisted psychological drama, ‘Phobos’ is a short film set before the events of ‘Alien: Covenant’. The film follows the crew of the ill-fated ...

No More Lonely People

2017

as Radio Host

Acting

Your soulmate is decided on your 23rd birthday. Sam and Dianna are two people who fell in love outside the system. When the system confirms that they'...

Alien: Covenant

Alien: Covenant

2017

Screenplay

6.2
Writing

The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise but ...

Alien: Covenant - Prologue: The Crossing

Alien: Covenant - Prologue: The Crossing

2017

Writer

7.1
Writing

The Crossing, an official prologue short to Alien: Covenant, reveals what happened to crew members Dr. Elizabeth Shaw and the synthetic David after th...

Genius

Genius

2016

Producer, Screenplay

6.5
Producing Writing

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald...

Spectre

Spectre

2015

Screenplay

6.6
Writing

A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret servic...

Jamie Marks Is Dead

Jamie Marks Is Dead

2014

Executive Producer

5.5
Producing

No one seemed to care about Jamie Marks until after his death. Hoping to find the love and friendship he never had in life, Jamie’s ghost visits forme...

Skyfall

Skyfall

2012

Screenplay

7.2
Writing

When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong, agents around the world are exposed and MI6 headquarters is attacked. While M faces challenges to he...

Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'

Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'

2012

as Self

6.0
Acting

The cast and crew of "Hugo" discuss the process of adapting the book to screen, the work of director Martin Scorsese, the story's themes, the origins ...

Hugo

Hugo

2011

Screenplay

7.2
Writing

Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the statio...

Rango

Rango

2011

Writer, Story

6.9
Writing

When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging town of Dirt, the less-than-courageous lizard suddenly finds he stand...

Coriolanus

Coriolanus

2011

Screenplay, Producer

5.8
Writing Producing

Caius Martius, aka Coriolanus, is an arrogant and fearsome general who has built a career on protecting Rome from its enemies. Pushed by his ambitious...

The Miraculous Year

2010

Writer

Writing

A chronicle of a New York family as seen through the eyes of a charming yet self-destructive Broadway composer.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

2007

Screenplay, Producer

7.2
Writing Producing

The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with...

The Aviator

The Aviator

2004

Screenplay

7.2
Writing

A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer ...

The Last Samurai

The Last Samurai

2003

Screenplay, Story

7.6
Writing

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and th...

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

2003

Writer

7.0
Writing

The sailor of legend is framed by the goddess Eris for the theft of the Book of Peace, and must travel to her realm at the end of the world to retriev...

Star Trek: Nemesis

Star Trek: Nemesis

2002

Screenplay, Story

6.3
Writing

En route to the honeymoon of William Riker to Deanna Troi on her home planet of Betazed, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise...

The Time Machine

The Time Machine

2002

Screenplay

6.3
Writing

Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two...

Gladiator

Gladiator

2000

Screenplay

8.2
Writing

After the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his devious son takes power and demotes Maximus, one of Rome's most capable generals who Marcus preferred....

RKO 281

RKO 281

2000

Screenplay

6.4
Writing

In 1939, boy-wonder Orson Welles leaves New York, where he has succeeded in radio and theater, and, hired by RKO Pictures, moves to Hollywood with the...

Any Given Sunday

Any Given Sunday

1999

Screenplay, Screenstory

6.8
Writing

A star quarterback gets knocked out of the game and an unknown third stringer is called in to replace him. The unknown gives a stunning performance an...

Bats

Bats

1999

Screenplay

4.6
Writing

Genetically mutated bats escape and it's up to a bat expert and the local sheriff to stop them.

Tornado!

Tornado!

1996

Screenplay, Writer

5.8
Writing

An accountant sent to produce an evaluation of a tornado research project, and the scientist running the project pursue tornadoes and each other.

Sue

Sue

N/A

Writer

Writing

A biopic about legendary Hollywood talent agent Sue Mengers. Mengers broke the glass ceiling as the female agent who crashed the Hollywood boys club o...

Untitled Hannibal Project

N/A

Writer

Writing

Based on the real warrior Hannibal, considered one of the greatest military commanders in history, the film will cover the crucial battles he led agai...

Untitled Gene Kelly Project

N/A

Writer, Producer

Writing Producing

A 12 year old boy who works on the MGM Lot in 1952, begins to create an imagined friendship with the legendary movie star Gene Kelly while working on ...

Michael

Michael

N/A

Writer

Writing

An in-depth portrayal of Michael Jackson, a complicated man, who became the King of Pop. The biopic will bring to life Jackson’s most iconic performan...

Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian

N/A

Writer

Writing

On the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, a 14-year-old Tennesseean nicknamed The Kid stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdere...