The Lord of the Rings. That is our new goal on the Beyond the Screenplay Patreon. Once we pass 500

patrons, we'll do a three-part series on the Lord of the Rings trilogy that will culminate in a special

uninhibited Patreon exclusive episode on the Hobbit trilogy. It's been several years since I've

re-watched the Lord of the Rings films,

and I'm pretty excited to revisit them and see how they hold up.

So if you want to help us reach this goal and get to talking about Lord of the Rings as soon as possible,

head to the Beyond the Screenplay Patreon to become a patron.

The link is in the show notes.

But for now, let's jump into our episode on Logan.

Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay. Today we are talking about Logan, the

2017 film written by James Mangold, Scott Frank and Michael Green, directed by James

Mangold. I am here with the Lessons from Screenplay team, writer Tricia Arand.

Hello, everybody. Writer Brian Bittner. Hey, Bub. And editor Alex Kayeros. Hi. So we're talking

about Logan, because in the previous episode, we talked about Children of Men, and one of the

videos we made for Lessons from the screenplay was comparing the first act of children of men to the first act of Logan.

And that video came about because people had been talking about Logan a lot and saying, you should do a video about Logan.

And I was kind of resistant, like, an R-rated super, like, I've never been super into X-Men and like Wolverine's cool but

like I wasn't exactly pumped to go see an R-rated Wolverine movie and a lot of the Wolverine

stories have been bad in movies and stuff but people kept saying it was amazing and so I finally

sat down and watched it one night and I was like moved to tears at point.

Like it was just so good.

I was like so surprised and thrilled and just really, really enjoyed it.

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