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 ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
2024
as Self
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
2022
Director, Executive Producer, Writer
Campers at an LGBTQ+ conversion camp endure unsettling psychological techniques while the campsite is stalked by a mysterious killer.

Rothko: Pictures Must Be Miraculous
2019
as Himself
Mark Rothko, a master of abstract expressionism, created 835 paintings during his five-decade career.

Red
2018
Theatre Play
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
2017
Producer
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
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
2017
Screenplay
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
2017
Writer
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
2016
Producer, Screenplay
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
2015
Screenplay
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
2014
Executive Producer
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
2012
Screenplay
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'
2012
as Self
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
2011
Screenplay
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
2011
Writer, Story
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
2011
Screenplay, Producer
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
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
2007
Screenplay, Producer
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
2004
Screenplay
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
2003
Screenplay, Story
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
2003
Writer
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
2002
Screenplay, Story
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
2002
Screenplay
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
2000
Screenplay
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
2000
Screenplay
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
1999
Screenplay, Screenstory
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
1999
Screenplay
Genetically mutated bats escape and it's up to a bat expert and the local sheriff to stop them.

Tornado!
1996
Screenplay, Writer
An accountant sent to produce an evaluation of a tornado research project, and the scientist running the project pursue tornadoes and each other.

Sue
N/A
Writer
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
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
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
N/A
Writer
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
N/A
Writer
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...