I absolutely love Logan’s Run – the concept, the book, the future mythology and even that 1977 movie starring Michael York, Richard Jordan, Jenny Agutter and Farrah Fawcett-Majors!
Bioshock video game creator Ken Levine has been recruited to write a script for a remake for Warner Brothers according to Deadline. Bryan Singer (X-Men) and Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive) who would likely cast Ryan Gosling have been linked to the project over the years.
Logan’s Run is set in a bleak future where humans lives in a domed city to protect them from a toxic world. To control the population people can only live to age 21 and must submit to execution. Anyone who tries to avoid execution are branded “runners” and special police men called “Sandmen” track them down and terminate them. In the 1977 film the age was 31 and Michael York played Logan 5 – a Sandman who fell in love with Jessica 6 (Jenny Agutter) a rebel against the execution and believed there was a way to escape the domed city. The film inspired a television series and has been a comic book.
Here’s the trailer via YouTube for the 1977 film:
Perhaps the mind behind Bioshock can inject the classic science fiction story with an eternally relevant premise with new energy!
The Caroussel scene freaked me out as a little kid!
By Editor