The Long-Gestating LOGAN'S RUN Adaptation Gets Another Writer
Warner Bros. has been trying to remake Logan's Run since the mid-1990s, but for whatever reason, they just haven't been able to crack it. The remake has slipped through the hands of Bryan Singer, Ryan Gosling and Nicolas Winding Refn, Joseph Kosinski, Carl Erik Rinsch, and Bioshock's Ken Levine, but now it seems to have new life once again.
Deadline reports that Ryan Condal, the co-creator/showrunner of the USA series Colony and co-writer of the upcoming Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson movie Rampage, has been hired to write the screenplay, which will be based on a treatment written by Simon Kinberg. Kinberg will produce alongside Joel Silver (who's been attached to this project since the beginning) and Greg Berlanti, who I thought might be a little busy handling his upcoming four-show crossover on The CW.
This movie is being called a "fresh take" on the original novel instead of a remake of the classic 1976 film, but there's no word on whether or not the idea of a gender-swapped lead character will be utilized in this version now that there's a new writer tackling the script. This is one of those projects that's been in development for so long, I think I'm pretty much going to tune out until they start casting it.