Yes.
I was surprised they went with somebody that old. Logan's Run seems like the perfect opportunity to cast some young CW-friendly teen idol--especially if they stick with the age limit in the original book.
Logan's Run (2012)
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Yes.
I was surprised they went with somebody that old. Logan's Run seems like the perfect opportunity to cast some young CW-friendly teen idol--especially if they stick with the age limit in the original book.
^ Are they? The age limit is back to 21?
I once read this book that was also called Logan's Run.
I've often wondered how Episodes 2 and 3 would have turned out if Lucas had gone with Leo for Anakin.
I usually defend the ideas of remakes, there's always room to go back and tweak stuff, but I don't see a modern studio going the way LR would need to go to make it really work.
I usually defend the ideas of remakes, there's always room to go back and tweak stuff, but I don't see a modern studio going the way LR would need to go to make it really work.
As I've written before, Logan's Run actually strikes me as the perfect candidate for a remake. Although fondly remembered by fans of a certain generation, it's not exactly an untouchable classic that cannot be improved upon. Nostalgia and Jenny Agutter aside, it hasn't aged well and was hardly a faithful adaptation of the book to begin with, so why not give it another go?
Although this remake has been in development so long that I'll believe it when I see it . . . .
Although this remake has been in development so long that I'll believe it when I see it . . . .
The prequels would have still been a disaster. Remember they already had "star" power with some well known names there. The problem was the writing and directing.
As for Logan's Run, why it's been on the back-burner so long I dont know. But given today's political atmosphere given health care and "death panels" in America, I'm sure it's going to leave a mark once released and will be reference time and time again for it's theme.
I never liked the original Logan's Run film... although the basic idea of a perpetual youth culture that kills people off before they hit thirty (or twenty-one) isn't a bad one. As a satire, a dark dystopia, a trenchant criticism, there's probably four or five basic ways you can run with that premise and turn it into something watchable.
So there's a potential a good film could come of a remake, but I'm not exactly holding my breath.
So there's a potential a good film could come of a remake, but I'm not exactly holding my breath.
Ryan Gosling was indeed announced as being in talks for the lead. He may have signed since. I had a chance to read Chris McQaurrie's script for when Bryan Singer was attached to direct the film and it was quite good (like most of McQuarrie's scripts). I'm a little excited for this. Alex Garland had been hired in 2010 to write the script. I don't think he's still attached as the writer though.
Me, too.
Rem! Yes I did. First fucking run.
Me too. Cheese. On. Toast! Mind you, the episode with the stable time loop was pretty good.
Yep, I remember it well.
I still have the first five issues, constituting the adaptation of the film.
But Slater is forty-two years old. That's way too old to play Logan.
By Logan's Run standards, that makes you long dead!
I have no idea who should play Logan. And I confess I don't particularly care, I just want this sonofabitchin' film to get MADE already. 
I have no idea who should play Logan. And I confess I don't particularly care, I just want this sonofabitchin' film to get MADE already.
Even if it's Taylor Launter?
I think you would care then....
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