Who will be writing Iron Man 3?

Variety has the answer:

Marvel Studios has tapped British TV writer-producer Drew Pearce to write "Iron Man 3," already scheduled for a May 3, 2013 release through Disney.

The hiring of Pearce comes in the wake of Shane Black being attached to direct "Iron Man 3," reuniting the "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" director with Robert Downey Jr., starring as billionaire Tony Stark and his armored superhero alter ego.

Jon Favreau had announced in December that he would not return to helm "Iron Man 3" for Marvel and Disney, which had paid Paramount $115 million two months earlier for the distribution rights to "Iron Man 3" and "The Avengers."

The first "Iron Man" earned $585 million worldwide, while this summer's follow-up generated another $621 million around the globe.

Pearce's TV producing credits include "No Heroics," "Lip Service" and "Damage Control."

-Joey's Two Cents: I was hoping Black would pull double duty, but that's just me...thoughts?

The remake of Logan's Run now has a writer...

...and it's one with a lot of hype attached to another script of his, according to The Hollywood Reporter:

Will Beall, the former L.A. cop-turned-scribe who wrote the script for Warners Bros.' just-greenlighted Gangster Squad, is in negotiations to pen Logan's Run, also for the studio.

The project has been long in development at Warners, but it recently got some new laces for its shoes when producers Joel Silver and Akiva Goldsman lined up Ryan Gosling to star and Nicolas Winding Refn to direct the sci-fi action movie.

The project is based on the 1967 novel by William F. Nolan that was adapted memorably into the 1976 feature starring Michael York, Jenny Agutter and Farrah Fawcett. The hook is a future society where people are executed upon reaching a certain age and those that seek to avoid their fate are deemed "Runners."

The character of Logan is one of those executioners, known as the Sandmen, who ends up on the run after he becomes sympathetic with members of an underground railroad of Runners.

The project has seen several directors come and go, with the same applying to writers (Alex Garland was the writer prior to Refn and Gosling coming on board.)