TV Logan wrote the 1999 Oliver Stone sports drama Any Given Sunday, which "changed his life". He then wrote the television film RKO 281, a historical drama released in the same year. Logan's feature films include Rango (2011), an animated feature starring Johnny Depp and directed by Gore Verbinski; the film adaptation of Shakespeare's Coriolanus, directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes; Hugo, an adaptation of the book The Invention of Hugo Cabret, directed by Martin Scorsese; and the James Bond film Skyfall, along with Neal Purvis and Robert Wade. He wrote the Bond film, Spectre (2015). He also created the 2014 television series Penny Dreadful starring Josh Hartnett, Eva Green and Timothy Dalton, for which he served as sole writer until it concluded with its third season. In November 2015, Logan was reported to have rewritten the script for Alien: Covenant. During the audio commentary of Alien: Covenant, Scott mentions that Logan has already started writing Alien: Covenant 2. In November 2018, it was announced that Showtime would produce a follow-up to the 2014 television series Penny Dreadful entitled Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, which takes place in Los Angeles in 1938. Logan was the creator, executive producer, and sole writer for the show, which premiered in 2020. In November 2019, it was reported that Bohemian Rhapsody producer Graham King was planning to produce a Michael Jackson biopic, with the screenplay written by Logan. Other notable films written by Logan include Star Trek: Nemesis, The Time Machine, and The Last Samurai. Logan made his feature directorial debut in 2022 with They/Them, a slasher film released via the streaming service Peacock. Accolades 2000: Nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series or Movie for RKO 281 Academy Awards: Best Original Screenplay for Gladiator (2000), co-written (with David Franzoni and William Nicholson) Best Original Screenplay, for The Aviator (2004) Best Adapted Screenplay, for Hugo (2011) Winner, Golden Globe Award, for the 2007 Tim Burton musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Tony Awards: Winner, Best Play for Red (2010) Nominated, Best Book of a Musical for Moulin Rouge! (2020) Personal life and other activities Logan is openly gay. he is a major benefactor of a small independent theatre company in Adelaide, South Australia, run by Rob Croser, called Independent Theatre. Several of his plays have been produced there, including Never the Sinner (1992, 1994, 2004);