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About
About Brian M Logan
Brian M Logan is a novelist, screenwriter, and digital marketing specialist formally repped out of Hollywood by William Morris Endeavour and managed by Anonymous Content and Circle of Confusion. In his early 20s Brian studied acting full time for 3 years and graduated from Australia’s prestigious ACARTS (ne. CPA) college, where he was taught by such luminaries as John Noble (‘Fringe’) and Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush.
During his 20s and early 30s Brian worked as a professional film actor, during which time he acted in 5 feature films, co-starring in 3 (opposite Ray Liotta, Julian McMahon, Kevin Dillon, Elliot Gould, Garry McDonald, Lance Henriksen, Ernie Hudson, and Christopher Atkins among others). Brian also wrote, directed, and produced several award-winning short films, and has taught acting and television presenting professionally.
In addition to his professional writing and acting work, Brian has been an integral member of the Australian web industry since August 14, 2,000 when he produced and launched Australia’s first-ever streaming film and music website, IndieFilmWeb.com (which was launched 4 years before YouTube even existed). This website was the first time a movie was ever able to be streamed via the internet and viewed on a computer monitor in Australia, and he has been designing websites, writing amazing web copy, and getting companies on the first page of Google ever since.
Brian’s screenplay, ‘The Nihilist, the Bag & the Rock’n Roll Launderette’ was a finalist (Top 10 out of 6,048 entries from around the world) in the Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting in 2003. The Nicholl Fellowship is the world’s largest screenwriting contest and is run by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (the folks who give out the Oscars). Brian was the first ever finalist to come from outside of America in the 27-year history of the competition, and the Academy flew him to Hollywood for the presentation and award ceremony (where he thereafter signed for WME).
In 2006 Brian’s screenplay ‘The Nihilist, the Bag & the Rock’n Roll Launderette’ was set up at Warner Independent Pictures in Hollywood, with Kevin Spacy, John Cusack, Alan Rickman and Vinnie Jones attached. This picture was green lit by WIP, only for the project to fall apart at the 11th hour when the Director (David Slade) was poached by producer Sam Raimi (Spider Man) to direct a big budget vampire film called ’30 Days of Night’ rather than a small U.S. $7,000,000 indie pic like ‘Nihilist.’ Brian’s team in Hollywood attempted to get Nihilist set up again after the project collapsed, but in 2007 the GFC hit, and the market for indie films practically vanished overnight. With Warner Independent Pictures themselves (by way of an example) going defunct in 2008, despite winning multiple Oscars for such films as ‘March of the Penguins’, the George Clooney directed, ‘Goodnight and Good Luck,’ and ‘Slumdog Millionaire.’
Brian’s novella ‘Monster Town’ was set-up in Hollywood in 2010 at Sony studios, with Basil Iwanyk (the producer of all the ‘John Wick’ movies) attached as producer. Sony put U.S. $300,000 into developing the book as a TV series (in the vein of ‘True Blood’). But unfortunately, the pilot wasn’t picked up, and the project sank into Development Hell.
After two decades tilting at Hollywood windmills (as first an actor, and then a writer) Brian took a 10 years hiatus from writing (2012-2022), during which time he launched his own digital marketing business (SEO North Sydney), met a girl, got married, moved out of Sydney, and made a concerted effort to ‘grow the hell up,’ (whatever that means!).
Brian’s debut novel ‘DC’ is currently in the final round of editing, and is due to be published on September 1st, 2026, and will mark Brian’s official return to the world of writing.
