LOGAN'S RUN Remake is Back on Track with a New Director
Producers Joel Silver and Akiva Goldsman have been trying to get a Logan's Run remake made for Warner Bros. for a very long time. Now it looks like the film has yet another director attached to develop it. Commercial director and Ridley Scott protege Carl Erik Rinsch. This name should sound familiar to you by now, we've talked about him and his projects a great deal on the site.
At one point Rinsch was attached to direct the Alien prequel, which Scott has now taken over. This guy seems like he's incredibly talented. I have enjoyed all of his commercial and short film work. You can check out his commercial's right here. He is also in the process of developing his first feature film Small, which is based on the wonderful short film he made called The Gift, which is a CGI live-action film that follows a man who is delivering some kind of box, something goes wrong and a robotic manservant ends up on the run from Moscow police.
Before Rinsch was attached to direct Logan's Run it went through the hands of Bryan Singer, Robert Schwenke (Flightplan), James McTeigue (Ninja Assassin), and Joseph Kosinski (Tron Legacy). Apparently it didn't work out with them for one reason or another.
I think Rinsch has the vision and imagination to turn this remake into something special, and give it the edge it needs to get fanboys and fangirls excited about it, which as you all know is very hard to do with a remake. Hopefully it will all works out with Rinsch, I'd really like to see what he could do with the material.
The original Logan's Run came out in the summer of 76 and here's a little description of it.
It is 2274. Some type of holocaust has decimated the earth, and the survivors sealed themselves into a domed city near Washington, D.C. To maintain the population balance, the computers that run the city have decreed that all people must die at 30. This system is enforced by "sandmen" : black-clad police operatives who terminate (kill) "runners" (those who attempt to live beyond 30). Logan, a sandman, is sent on a mission to find "sanctuary," which is a code- word used by the master computer to describe what it believes is a place to which runners have been escaping. Logan begins to question the system he serves and after seeing for himself that there is life beyond the dome, he returns to destroy the computer.
What are your thoughts on Rinsch taking on Logan's Run?