John Logan

John David Logan is an American playwright and filmmaker. He is known for his work as a screenwriter for such films as Martin Scorsese's The Aviator and Hugo, Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Sam Mendes's James Bond films Skyfall, and Spectre. He has been nominated three times for Academy Awards, and has won a Tony Award and a Golden Globe Award.

Works

Michael

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 performances as it gives an informed insight into the entertainer’s artistic process and personal life.

Release Date:2025-10-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters

A look at Hammer’s progression from a back off in London’s Regent Street to its iconic status within the horror film genre. The company, started by comedian and businessman William Hinds in 1934, made films such as The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula, and The Quartermass Xperiment during the period for which it is best known, making stars out of the likes of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.

Release Date:2024-10-31

Character:Self

4.7

They/Them

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

Release Date:2022-07-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:221

Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow
6.0

Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow

Join trailblazing producer, director, best-selling author and B-movie mogul Charles Band as he invites you into his weird world.

Release Date:2022-05-24

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
6.8

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels

Rooted in the conflict between characters connected to the deity Santa Muerte and others allied with the Devil, this saga explores an exciting mix of the supernatural and the combustible reality of 1938 Los Angeles, a time and place deeply infused with Mexican-American folklore and social tension.

Release Date:2020-04-26

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:335

Rothko: Pictures Must Be Miraculous

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

Release Date:2019-10-25

Character:Himself

4.5

Red

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 for the Philip Johnson-designed Four Seasons restaurant in architect Mies van der Rohe’s iconic Seagram Building. Award-winning stage and screen actor Alfred Molina reprises his critically acclaimed performance as the American abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko in playwright John Logan’s Tony Award-winning 2010 play Red. Molina is joined by rising star Alfred Enoch (How to Get Away With Murder) as Rothko’s assistant Ken. Original Broadway director Michael Grandage returns to direct this 2018 West End revival, the first U.K. production since the play’s 2009 world premiere at the Donmar Warehouse.

Release Date:2018-11-07

Department:Writing

Job:Theatre Play

Vote Count:40

No More Lonely People

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're not soulmates. Sam teams with Reporter Alexa to fight for the love of his life.

Release Date:2017-07-12

Character:Radio Host

6.2

Alien: Covenant

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 is actually a dark, dangerous world.

Release Date:2017-05-09

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:8769

6.5

Genius

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. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer falls into his hands, Perkins is convinced he has discovered a literary genius.

Release Date:2016-06-10

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:681

6.6

Spectre

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 service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.

Release Date:2015-10-26

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:10607

5.5

Jamie Marks Is Dead

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 former classmate Adam McCormick, drawing him into the bleak world between the living and the dead.

Release Date:2014-07-28

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:103

Penny Dreadful
7.8

Penny Dreadful

Some of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London. Penny Dreadful is a frightening psychological thriller that weaves together these classic horror origin stories into a new adult drama.

Release Date:2014-05-11

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:21

Vote Count:1377

7.2

Skyfall

When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong, agents around the world are exposed and MI6 headquarters is attacked. While M faces challenges to her authority and position from Gareth Mallory, the new Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee, it's up to Bond, aided only by field agent Eve, to locate the mastermind behind the attack.

Release Date:2012-10-24

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:15310

6.0

Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'

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 of the book, casting, costuming, adding the dogs to the cast, working with 3D and its benefits for the film, set design and special effects and more.

Release Date:2012-02-28

Character:Self

Vote Count:1

7.2

Hugo

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 station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.

Release Date:2011-11-22

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:7251

6.9

Rango

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 stands out. Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for, new Sheriff Rango is forced to play his new role to the hilt.

Release Date:2011-03-02

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:6586

5.9

Coriolanus

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 mother to seek the position of consul, Coriolanus is at odds with the masses and unpopular with certain colleagues. When a riot results in his expulsion from Rome, Coriolanus seeks out his sworn enemy, Tullus Aufidius. Together, the pair vow to destroy the great city.

Release Date:2011-02-14

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:452

7.2

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

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 his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical.

Release Date:2007-12-20

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:5937

7.2

The Aviator

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 and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Release Date:2004-12-17

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:5396

7.6

The Last Samurai

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 the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.

Release Date:2003-12-05

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:6950

7.0

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

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 retrieve it and save the life of his childhood friend Prince Proteus.

Release Date:2003-07-02

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:2060

6.3

Star Trek: Nemesis

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 receives word from Starfleet that a coup has resulted in the installation of a new Romulan political leader, Shinzon, who claims to seek peace with the human-backed United Federation of Planets. Once in enemy territory, the captain and his crew make a startling discovery: Shinzon is human, a slave from the Romulan sister planet of Remus, and has a secret, shocking relationship to Picard himself.

Release Date:2002-12-13

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:1442

6.3

The Time Machine

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 warring races.

Release Date:2002-03-04

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:2294

8.2

Gladiator

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. Eventually, Maximus is forced to become a gladiator and battle to the death against other men for the amusement of paying audiences.

Release Date:2000-05-04

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:19383

6.8

Any Given Sunday

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 and forces the ageing coach to reevaluate his game plans and life. A new co-owner/president adds to the pressure of winning. The new owner must prove herself in a male dominated world.

Release Date:1999-12-22

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:1665

4.6

Bats

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

Release Date:1999-10-22

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:200

You Should Be Dancing

The story of The Bee Gees, the pop trio whose worldwide sales of more than 220 million records established them as one of the biggest-selling groups of all time.

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Sue

A biopic about legendary Hollywood talent agent Sue Mengers. Mengers broke the glass ceiling as the female agent who crashed the Hollywood boys club of agenting with her brandishing an outsized personality to go with her client list which included Barbra Streisand, Cher, Brian De Palma, Faye Dunaway, etc.

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

5.8

Tornado!

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

Release Date:1996-05-06

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:41

Untitled Hannibal Project

Based on the real warrior Hannibal, considered one of the greatest military commanders in history, the film will cover the crucial battles he led against the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War.

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Untitled Gene Kelly Project

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 his next film.

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Blood Meridian

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 murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

6.4

RKO 281

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 purpose of making his first film.

Release Date:2000-04-07

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:94

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