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Logan's Run

By Coming Attractions     May 29, 2007



Genre:
Science Fiction.

Studio:
Warner Bros.

Production Company:
Silver Pictures.

Project Phase:
Script Stage.

Who's In It:
Unknown.

Who's Making It:
Jayson Rothwell and Travis Beachman (Screenwriters); Joseph Kosinski (Director), Joel Silver (Producer); Guy Dyas (Production Designer); based on the novel by William F. Nolan.

Premise:
In a future society, people willingly commit suicide at 21. One of the law enforcers of this time, a 'Sandman' named Logan, rebels against the society and makes his run.

Release Date:
Unknown.

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None.

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March 5, 2004... X-MEN director Bryan Singer has agreed to helm a remake of LOGAN'S RUN, with MATRIX producer Joel Silver collaborating with Singer. Singer is going back to the original source material, that being the novel by William Nolan, for a new take on the concept of a future uptopia society where no one ever grows old because they are killed. In the 1976 movie which starred Michael York as Logan-5 and Jenny Agutter as Jessica-6, the
citizens in Logan's domed city sought a chance at renewal through a gruesome event called Carousel. In Nolan's book the citizens of the city don't make it past the age of 21. Singer wants to lower the age of principal characters to reflect the 21-year-old termination date.



Scribes Ethan Gross and Paul Todisco are writing the screenplay with Singer. Warner Bros. wants to release the film in 2005. X2 production designer Guy Dyas has already commenced designing the world of Logan.



Nolan continued the story of Logan and Jessica in two sequel novels, LOGAN'S WORLD and LOGAN'S SEARCH. [Variety, The Hollywood Reporter.]



July 19, 2004... Bryan Singer has decided to make Warner's SUPERMAN film his next project, throwing a major kink in the development of LOGAN'S RUN. Singer is expected to start filming the movie this November, and his post-SUPERMAN plans have not been discussed. Regardless, a 2005 release for the new LOGAN'S RUN movie is now out of the question.


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zogtheobvious 5/21/2006 9:20:47 PM
Funny how there's talk of Bryan Singer leaving the Logan's Run project -- http://www.darkhorizons.com/news06/060516f.php -- but Cinescape somehow missed it or didn't find it important enough to post here....
wrrlykam 1/22/2007 9:06:09 AM
IMDB is now saying shelved :(
wrrlykam 2/26/2007 9:15:06 AM
There was an article which mentioned quite a bit of PRE-VIZ work done to LR. I'll have to find it out.
wrrlykam 4/24/2007 4:28:34 PM
In memory of Roscoe Lee Browne (May/2/1925 - April/11/2007)
wrrlykam 5/30/2007 2:45:13 AM
Unknown quanitities to me these guys.
Tronman90 6/4/2007 12:29:50 PM
Is it just me or does anyone else think that 21 is a bit young for people to be willing to commit suicide? This appears to be a desperate attempt to depart from an important plot element, i.e. entering the Carrousel at age 30, in favor for substituting experienced actors a younger, Hollywood hip type. This a sad attempt to pull in a generation of movie goers who weren't even born when the original aired.
lonestranger 6/26/2007 9:36:49 AM
Tronman90: In the original book, each person's Lastday is their 21st birthday. According to the DVD commentary, the movie makers decided that they had to change it to 30 because it was too difficult to find actors that looked young enough. It will be nice to see the new movie be closer to the book in many ways, including the age of death.
wrrlykam 10/3/2007 7:04:54 PM
Tronman90 - there was no Carousel in the book. It was the live fast and dieyoung youth ideology of the 60s. Sex drugs and rock n Roll. So you had your fun and bowed out (forced or otherwise) while still young. After all the old were the cause of war and oppression. This was global and not just some closed off city. Where can you run to when the computers controlled everything, everywhere? So is Sanctury a myth, does it exist, can Logan destroy it on his 'Last Day' and thus become the most famous Sandman ever? It is well worth reading the 1967 book and so see how much more there is to the story than the 1976 film got a chance to explore.
masterjedidude 11/28/2007 3:28:08 PM
As a huge fan of the original movie, I don't want to see this movie rushed or mishandled ("Planet of the Apes"...cough, cough). I'm excited that they're basing it on the original book, but I'm afraid that several movies ("The Island" cough, cough) have beat them to the punch already. They would have to really work wonders to make this an awesome movie.
1966Trekkie 1/4/2008 5:25:22 PM
I read the book as a kid. But I remember carrousel and last-day being age 30. There were some differences though. "Lysergic foam" a new form of LSD was used by logan and Francis, the "old man" was just Francis in disguise, and Sanctuary was real. Hmmmm... I waited 42 years for SPEED RACER so I guess I can wait a while longer for this. What are the Wachowskis doing next???
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