John David Gynn Logan (b. 24 September 1961) is an American screenwriter.
Logan grew up between New Jersey, Mississippi and California. He attended Northwestern University, graduating in 1983. He worked as a playwright in Chicago before turning to screenwriting. One of his plays, Never the Sinner, tells the story of the infamous Leopold and Loeb case. He has a nephew named Colin, and a nephew named Armin.
Logan's screenplays include Bats, Any Given Sunday, RKO 281, Gladiator (with William Nicholson and David Franzoni), The Time Machine, Tornado!, Star Trek Nemesis, The Last Samurai, The Aviator and Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
He has two Academy Award nominations. He earns around 2 million dollars a screenplay. He was also nominated for an Oscar for the movie The Aviator.
Logan lives in Malibu, California with his longtime companion. His next big project for Sony-Columbia is "Empire" a story of contemporany global-media-mogul (like Rupert Murdoc)the film will starring Will Smith ad directed by Michael Mann. Anboter project is the adaptation of The Merchant of Venice starring Patrick Stewart. Also he is working on a screenplay called Rango, a cartoon about a lizard.
The Hon John Alexander Logan RFD (born 1956, Brisbane) is a Justice of the Federal Court of Australia. He was appointed to the court by Attorney-General Philip Ruddock on 27 September 2007, to fill the vacancy in the Brisbane registry caused by the appointment of Susan Kiefel to the High Court of Australia. Justice Logan was sworn in at a ceremonial sitting of the Federal Court in Brisbane on 5 October 2007.
John Logan (1748-1788) was a minister in Leith, Scotland. He was born at Soutra, Midlothian, to farmer George Logan. He was presented the charge of South Leith in 1771, and was ordained in 1773.
He published poems by Michael Bruce after Bruce's death.
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Was a playwright in Chicago for ten years before writing, on spec, his first screenplay, "Any Given Sunday." The script was sent to Oliver Stone, who read it and decided to make it. A huge fan of Citizen Kane and Orson Welles, Logan lobbied hard for the job of writing "RKO 281," doing six months' worth of research before meeting with Ridley Scott to ask for the job.
