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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.

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