John Logan wrote Gladiator, The Aviator, Hugo, Skyfall and Spectre, and has been nominated for three Academy Awards without winning.
Skyfall is his best film work, built on the relationship between Bond and M as the actual subject, which is closer to a play than to a spy film and is why it plays differently from the rest of the series.
He created Penny Dreadful for television and wrote the play Red about Mark Rothko, which won the Tony. The theatrical instinct for a confined confrontation runs through all of it.
David DuncanThe Time Machine (2002) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. H. G. Wells's great-grandson directed it, collapsed from exhaustion, and Gore Verbinski shot the last eighteen days. The first act is genuinely good and the film throws…
John Logan2012 Sam Mendes Bond film with Craig facing Javier Bardem. M's past returns, Bond's Scottish childhood home, Adele theme song.
Jez Butterworth2015 Sam Mendes Bond film with Craig. Christoph Waltz as Oberhauser-Blofeld, attempted retroactive franchise unification.
David FranzoniGladiator is the film that revived the Hollywood epic. The 9 rating is honest evaluation.
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