John Logan

It is alway- Everything revolves around Brent.

So your interview with Brent was, you know, got a lot of attention online because we got him to talk a bit more about the proposed sequel to Nemesis, and people may forget, but Brent was involved in writing Nemesis, and he and John Logan were trying to write...

They, they kind of started working on this before Nemesis ever came out, and a script was written for a sequel.

Um, and you got him to talk about that.

There's an alternate universe where they got Star Trek Nemesis correct, and that was to bring back Denise Crosby, and she played both Tasha, perhaps in Flashback, and then her Romulan daughter... time travel character as the villain of the film.

Forget the broke-ass Wrath of Khan reboot that they gave us that makes such terrible use, but Spiner continues to call John Logan the best screenwriter in Hollywood.

And instead, we don't have that.

We have what we actually got.

And I had this vision of a film in my head.

and that vision came to a wonderful screenplay that John Logan wrote, and the studios loved this version of it, and off we went to shoot it.

So to find out in post that we never had to write that story in the first place, unprecedented.

But looking back at it, Kevin, was a gift from God.

I mean, I just feel the pain.

Yeah, it was a very dark three or four months for me.

Did you call John Logan, like, immediately and say, how can we dig ourselves out of this?

No, it wasn't an immediate call to John.

And I'd put, uh, I'd put the Gilroys in there, uh, the Gilroy brothers.

And, um, oh, and David Koepp and, uh, um, uh, John Logan, and oh, and the li- a- and it, the, the list goes on and on and on.

The list does.

It, they're just...

me.

It's funny, because we need to remind ourselves that very often, I think the first John Logan episode a few months ago, he stressed that, like, you need to be doing this because you love it, because it's all the other stuff, that's what will break you.

But if you can just keep doing the thing that you love doing, it it can really keep you in the game but it's all the other stuff that usually breaks people and makes them be like i just what's the point

yeah anytime i get miserable it has something it never has to do with the writing it always has to do with some sort of business element of it um and more often than not and i usually work as a novelist but i do some movie stuff and like most of the grief if i have and it always comes from the movie side of things Yeah, that's usually

So I think that he was innocent.

I think ultimately from like the Jackson estate point of view, because there was a scene shot where Michael Jackson was brought into a, uh a police station and his private area was inspected by the police so there were some quite you know intense dark moments which makes sense why people like john logan well-known script writer wrote the original script you know that it wasn't just going to be a very obvious paint by numbers biopic that a lot of people criticized the first film for um So they're going to explore that in more detail.

They're not going to dodge it in any way.

Those of you who are Fast and the Furious fans, Vin Diesel says it starts filming in December and it's going to be fast forever.

Um, Neurodiverse says, "Fantasy has jumped onto the woke fans suck bandwagon." Uh, you know, we just need to avoid that.

You know, um, we, we need to, we need to try to be some possi- possib- um, s- positive, you know? James Scerra, John Logan had a shot and he wrote Nemesis.

Nemesis, I am in two minds about.

I prefer Nemesis to, um, Insurrection.

They believe to be an uncharted paradise only to discover a dark and dangerous world and having it.

by deadly alien creatures it had a budget of 97 million and made approximately 240 million worldwide it was released may 19th 2017 starring michael fassbender katherine watterson billy crudup and a lot of other people in the crew it was directed by ridley scott and written by john logan and dante harper and its tagline is the path to paradise begins in hell

See, and I was a little disappointed when I saw you put that as the tagline because I remember this advertising campaign iconically because it was actually like, you guys both know this, but I always see a movie the week of my birthday, whatever is kind of fresh in the movie theater.

And I consider that to be my birthday movie.

It still lists it as the musical by Sting, starring Sting, with music and lyrics from, you guessed it, Sting, as if the front of that program hadn't articulated that clearly enough, staring into my soul as he is.

The rest of the material, though, is curiously credited with a new book by Barney Norris from a book by Lorne Campbell, based on an original book by John Logan and Brian Yorkey, all of these being books of the musical, not works of fiction upon which the musical was based, you understand.

And it seems as though since its first somewhat unsuccessful voyage, the show has been produced for better or worse, and more often than not, for both, every few years now culminating in the version that we now see.

And it's a sprawling story that it tells.