Andrew Lanham

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Andrew Lanham
NationalityAmerican
Occupation
  • Film screenwriter
Years active2015–present
Notable work

Andrew Lanham is an American film screenwriter best known for his collaborations with Destin Daniel Cretton, including The Shack (2017), The Glass Castle (2017), Just Mercy (2019), and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021).

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Career

In 2015, he began his career with a script for the drama film Boy21. [1] In 2016, Lanham started a series of collaborations with Destin Daniel Cretton, by co-writing the screenplay for the religious film The Shack . [2] A second collaborative effort with Cretton was developed in the same year with the drama film The Glass Castle . [3] In 2017, he drafted the screenplay for the western film The Kid . [4] In 2019, he wrote the script for Cretton's third film Just Mercy . [5] In 2021, he gained notability when he wrote Cretton's superhero film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings . [6] In February 2022, he was writing the screenplay for Harbinger, based on the Valiant Comics comic book series of the same name. [7] In May 2024, he was writing the script for the Amazon MGM Studios film The Robots Go Crazy. [8]

Filmography

YearTitleRef(s)
2017 The Shack [2]
2017 The Glass Castle [3]
2019 The Kid [4]
2019 Just Mercy [5]
2021 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings [9]

Accolades

In February 2020, Lanham's work on Just Mercy was nominated at the NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture. [10] In September 2022, Lanham work on Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings was nominated at the Hugo Awards for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form [11] and at the Ray Bradbury Award for "Outstanding Dramatic Presentation". [12]

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