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Andrew Lanham is known for:

  • The Shack
    After suffering a family tragedy, Mack Phillips spirals into a deep depression causing him to question his innermost beliefs. Facing a crisis of faith, he receives a mysterious letter urging him to an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Despite his doubts, Mack journeys to the shack and encounters an enigmatic trio of strangers led by a woman named Papa. Through this meeting, Mack finds important truths that will transform his understanding of his tragedy and change his life forever.
  • Just Mercy
    The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.
  • The Glass Castle
    A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who distracts her with magical stories to keep her mind off the family's dire state, and her selfish, nonconformist mother who has no intention of raising a family, along with her younger brother and sister, and her other older sister. Together, they fend for each other as they mature in an unorthodox journey that is their family life.

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Biography

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). In 2015, he began his career with a script for the drama film Boy21. In 2016, Lanham started a series of collaborations with Destin Daniel Cretton by co-writing the screenplay for the religious film The Shack. A second collaborative effort was developed in the same year with the drama film The Glass Castle. In 2017, he drafted the screenplay for the western film The Kid. In 2019, he wrote the script for Cretton's drama film Just Mercy. In 2021, he gained notability when he wrote the superhero film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. In February 2022, he was writing the screenplay for Harbinger, based on the Valiant Comics comic book series of the same name. In February 2020, Lanham's work on Just Mercy was nominated at the NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Andrew Lanham, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.