The Mystery surrounding the writer of Logan Lucky
On Sunday, Sodergergh tweeted:
Rebecca Blunt is not a pseudonym for a male writer. She is a woman, and she wrote LOGAN LUCKY entirely by herself. And...SCENE.
So basically he said it was a woman who wrote the script by herself.
The Playlist believed the writer is non other than Sodergergh's wife Jules Asner. It makes sense that they kept it a mystery. If at the beginning it was revealed that Sodergergh's wife wrote the script, then many would call it nepotism. But now, it was only revealed after the movie got positive initial reviews, this nepotism burden was removed.
Anyway, if it was really written by Mrs. Soderbergh, judging from the press kit, both Mr. and Mrs. Soderbergh adore Channing. Here was what "Rebecca Blunt" said:
Blunt says Logan Lucky’s working-class anti-hero was inspired by the remarkable background of her friend Channing Tatum. “I wrote Jimmy Logan with Channing in mind because I see Jimmy as an alternative version of Chan’s own story,” she says. “Chan’s from a small southern town, I believe he won a football scholarship to play in Florida but ended up blowing out his knee before the season started, so he became a stripper. I thought of Logan Lucky as, ‘What if Chan hadn’t become a male stripper and had gone back home?’ I ran into Chan and his partner Reid at a bowling alley and mentioned the the idea to them - at the time I called it Hillbilly Heist - and Chan said, ‘That sounds great!’ I don’t know if he even remembers saying that and I never imagined all of this would really happen.”
Blunt fleshed out the film’s central plot based on a combination of news reports and her own imagination. “I heard about sinkholes at the Charlotte Motor Speedway, which is built on landfill. They brought in out-of-work coal miners to make repairs. With my West Virginia roots, I have a lot of sympathy for coal miners. I also had a fascination with pneumatic tubes from when I was a little kid and my mom would go to the drive-thru at the bank. She’d always let me put the money in the tube and it would magically take the money away to the teller.” Blunt gave the finished script to Soderbergh, “I wanted to see if Steven had any suggestions about directors I should go to with the script, since he’s made so many great heist movies,” Blunt says. “I was thinking he’d sworn off feature films so I was very surprised when he came back and said he wanted to direct it himself.”
Channing will be on Jimmy Kimmel on Monday. I am not sure he will be promoting Comrade Detective or Logan Lucky or both. Let's see if Kimmel will ask him the writer question.
Rebecca Blunt is not a pseudonym for a male writer. She is a woman, and she wrote LOGAN LUCKY entirely by herself. And...SCENE.
So basically he said it was a woman who wrote the script by herself.
The Playlist believed the writer is non other than Sodergergh's wife Jules Asner. It makes sense that they kept it a mystery. If at the beginning it was revealed that Sodergergh's wife wrote the script, then many would call it nepotism. But now, it was only revealed after the movie got positive initial reviews, this nepotism burden was removed.
Anyway, if it was really written by Mrs. Soderbergh, judging from the press kit, both Mr. and Mrs. Soderbergh adore Channing. Here was what "Rebecca Blunt" said:
Blunt says Logan Lucky’s working-class anti-hero was inspired by the remarkable background of her friend Channing Tatum. “I wrote Jimmy Logan with Channing in mind because I see Jimmy as an alternative version of Chan’s own story,” she says. “Chan’s from a small southern town, I believe he won a football scholarship to play in Florida but ended up blowing out his knee before the season started, so he became a stripper. I thought of Logan Lucky as, ‘What if Chan hadn’t become a male stripper and had gone back home?’ I ran into Chan and his partner Reid at a bowling alley and mentioned the the idea to them - at the time I called it Hillbilly Heist - and Chan said, ‘That sounds great!’ I don’t know if he even remembers saying that and I never imagined all of this would really happen.”
Blunt fleshed out the film’s central plot based on a combination of news reports and her own imagination. “I heard about sinkholes at the Charlotte Motor Speedway, which is built on landfill. They brought in out-of-work coal miners to make repairs. With my West Virginia roots, I have a lot of sympathy for coal miners. I also had a fascination with pneumatic tubes from when I was a little kid and my mom would go to the drive-thru at the bank. She’d always let me put the money in the tube and it would magically take the money away to the teller.” Blunt gave the finished script to Soderbergh, “I wanted to see if Steven had any suggestions about directors I should go to with the script, since he’s made so many great heist movies,” Blunt says. “I was thinking he’d sworn off feature films so I was very surprised when he came back and said he wanted to direct it himself.”
Channing will be on Jimmy Kimmel on Monday. I am not sure he will be promoting Comrade Detective or Logan Lucky or both. Let's see if Kimmel will ask him the writer question.