Logic Found His Calling as a Filmmaker with 'Paradise Records' - and It Might Not Be Long Before He's a Studio Head

""I love film and television more than anything in the world. It raised me. ... My father was a crack addict. My mother was a prostitute. I was conceived in a crack house, brothers and sisters, gang members, shooting guns. This is all I grew up with," Logic said during a recent interview with IndieWire. "I learned how to cook crack at 12 years old. It's not really the most ideal situation, but that's all I knew. And my escape was film. I knew how to court a partner from watching black and white flicks and learning about chivalry and respect... I just genuinely love movies.""

""Writing and directing films was always the goal for Logic, who says he's currently sitting on "eight or 10" scripts that he'd like to make, including a magnum opus called "Chocolate Swirl Sunset" that he describes as a cross between Charlie Kaufman and "a Black 'Annie Hall.'" He began showing some of his scripts to Hollywood friends like Seth Macfarlane and J.J. Abrams in 2018 - but while his writing was met with lots of initial enthusiasm, he struggled to get a movie greenlit through the conventional Hollywood""

Logic achieved major commercial success in music, selling over five million albums, earning nearly two billion YouTube views, and selling out venues like Madison Square Garden. He grew up amid addiction, prostitution, and violence, and used film as an escape and a source of social and romantic lessons learned from black-and-white movies. He has long referenced filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino and Old Hollywood in his music. He currently has eight to ten scripts, including a magnum opus titled Chocolate Swirl Sunset described as a cross between Charlie Kaufman and a Black Annie Hall, and has faced difficulty getting projects greenlit in conventional Hollywood despite early enthusiasm from peers.

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