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Dec 6, 2011 · After 10 years writing plays in Chicago, John Logan turned to Hollywood in the mid-1990s. Within a few years, he had co-written Any Given Sunday and Gladiator and written The Aviator — and...
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Dec 12, 2004 · Actor-director Frank Galati tells the quintessential John Logan anecdote. “His home in Evanston was gorgeous, an immense, yellow brick villa with a capacious garden,” Galati says.
John Logan was a playwright in Chicago for ten years before writing, on spec, his first screenplay, "Any Given Sunday." He won the 2010 Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle awards for his play RED, which premiered at the Donmar Warehouse in London and the Golden Theatre on Broadway. More at IMDbPro.
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- John Logan’s Journey Into Film
- Logan in Theater
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John Logan is a three-time Oscar-nominated writer and Tony award-winning playwright. He has worked with Oliver Stone, Ridley Scott, Martin Scorsese,Tim Burton, and Sam Mendes,to name a few of the directors who helmed his screenplays. Logan was born on September 24th, 1961, and has recounted a story in a few interviews of a pivotal moment early in c...
After graduating from Northwestern, Logan got a day job shelving books at the Northwestern University Law Library. In a BAFTA lecturepodcast interview, he described his time at the job lasting for ten years. It was hard but one of “the greatest times in his life.” The ten years were where he learned and perfected how to do his job as a playwright. ...
In the BAFTA podcast interview, Logan describes taking a playwriting class as a fluke where he had to write a play by the end of the year. At the end of that year, all he wanted to do was be a dramatist. This was his pursuit during the ten years he worked stacking books at the Northwestern Law Library. Logan’s first plays were put on in “tiny littl...
While Logan still works on films and plays, another avenue of exploration for his writing has been television. He is the show-runner for Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, which he pursued a few years after the successfulPenny Dreadful. His work on both shows allowed him to delve deeper into a project than a film or play due to the latter two’s limite...
Michael Mann and John Logan sent the screenplay out to studios in late April of 2007 with Leonardo DiCaprio attached to play Slidell and a budget of $120 million; nothing came of it.
John David Logan (born September 24, 1961) is an American playwright and filmmaker. He is known for his work as a screenwriter for such films 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 ...
Jan 9, 2005 · "Gladiator," with 5 Oscars and 12 nominations, put Mr. Logan on Hollywood's A-list. But it left him yearning for the control he enjoyed as a playwright, and he resolved to reclaim it.
