Screenwriters' Lectures: John Logan

The man behind Russell Crowe’s line “At my signal, unleash hell” in Gladiator, John Logan, charts his career.

An apprenticeship in book-shelving and niche plays convinced John Logan he knows the secret to successful scripts, which he shares here (no spoilers). Fidelity is flexible when storytelling, he asserts, before going on to name the obstacles to production and to answering the only question that matters: 'Does It Work?'