"Logan’s Run" has had a long, long history of trying to be remade in Hollywood. The script has been gone over by a number of talented hands (Alex Garland, Will Beall and Christopher McQuarrie) and more recently, landed in the promising hands of Nicolas Winding Refn. At one point his version would’ve starred Ryan Gosling and featured a score by Johnny Jewel, but it fell apart, partly because Refn wasn’t sure he would be able to put his imprint on the material. "When I pulled out of ‘Logan’s Run,’ it was the decision that if I was gonna make one of these mega-blockbusters, I would control the material,” he said in 2013. However, the dormant project has new life.
THR reports that Simon Kinberg, the producer behind the "X-Men" franchise and the various "Star Wars" properties (including one of the upcoming spinoffs), is taking a shot at "Logan’s Run." He’ll get the ball rolling by writing the treatment and story, and then producer Joel Silver will bring in a screnwriter to bang out a finished script. So basically, this is starting from scratch all over again. But Kinberg does have the magic touch these days, so maybe he’ll be the one to get this one running.
So, we’ll see how this goes, but given the past history, I’m not betting it’ll be going at any considerable speed. Here’s the trailer for the original.
It never ends well when you have to force a project into being.
And conceptually, the original captured a certain moment of 70\’s zeitgeist and projected it into the future. To make the property resonate on that level again, you would need to strip out virtually all of the iconic elements of the original and completely rewire it to reflect a wholly different set of generational aspirations and anxieties. By the time you do that, all you are left with is a title, and then the whole project just becomes a cynical marketing exercise.
Just pass already. Its a disaster waiting to happen and the studio is just throwing good money after bad.
I feel like I\’ve been hearing about this since around the time Singer was directing X2 — it was going to be his next project. Why does Hollywood love THIS property so much they keep trying to resurrect it, over and over? I\’m a little baffled.