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And The Current Writer Of The LOGAN'S RUN Re-Adaptation Is...
Merrick here...
Alex Garland (28 DAYS LATER, SUNSHINE, the unmade HALO movie) looks to be the current writer of Joel Silver's LOGAN'S RUN redux. Garland is also writing that new JUDGE DREDD movie we keep hearing about.
Although best remembered as the 1976 film starring Michael York, Jenny Agutter and Farrah Fawcett, “Run” began as a 1967 novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson; it’s the book, which had a greatly expanded world compared to the movie, that the studio and producers Joel Silver and Akiva Goldsman are turning to.
...says THR HERE.
Alex isn't the first person to recently take a crack at re-adapting William F. Nolan's literary source material. For example, several years ago CHILDREN OF MEN scripter Tim Sexton was on board this effort. A few weeks back, Carl Erik Rinsch became the most recent in a long line of directorial candidates for the picture. This LOGAN project has become a revolving door for intriguing talent (at one point, NINJA ASSASSIN's James McTeigue and TRON LEGACY's Joseph Kosinski were involved), so it's difficult to take these new developments too seriously.
However, if you're looking to be entertained by a far more certain LOGAN interpretation, consider checking out Bluewater Productions' LOGAN'S RUN comic books - they're solid, rich, smart, and they're evidently working with Nolan to ensure some level of vision control. Bluewater's set up an ebay store HERE. I'm enjoying these immensely, and if you've any interest in experiencing the breadth of LOGAN'S universe (far more elaborate than the '76 movie), I highly recommend these.
I just noticed that 1977's short lived LOGAN'S RUN TV series is now available on demand HERE
. This is interesting because the show itself has yet to be (officially) issued on DVD, although director Michael Anderson's 1976 thatrical version was recently released on THIS
startlingly inadequate Blu-Ray.
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...I can't be the first to say it.
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I can hear Klink now.
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I've been pondering picking up this Logan's Run BD.
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as I recall, Michael Bay REALLY wanted to do this... for some reason left the project and made The Island as his vision of Logan's Run.
That movie came out 5 years ago.... geeze... this thing's never getting made. That's not necessarily a bad thing. -
Fox has offered Robert Rodriguez the Deadpool movie.
And the AICN silence continues... -
Very few "extras" and I don't think it's a good transfer of the film - looks soft and muted. At $10 I suppose one could do worse, but it's hard to image future releases might not look considerably better.
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Here's hoping that this isn't another Joel Silver cheese-fest. I'd rather have Ridley Scott doing this movie any day with concept art by Syd Mead.
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what's this been simmering for, what, 15 years now? the remake of Avatar will be out before this
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guess I'll have to wait a bit longer for Jenny Agutter HD goodness.
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Why? Just because Superman didn't make a billion dollars.
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...that came up with this one?
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Actually this is one story I agree could use a remake. I liked the original but think it could be a much less "happy" story with the right treatment.
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I nominate John Hillcoat to direct it.
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I, for one, am getting pretty tired of, 'here's the future, we're all fucked'.
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....bore the crap out of people. Better a post-apocalyptic world where you naively believe you'll come out on top.
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The sequel.
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Over at blu-ray.com they had the same take as Merrick, 3/5 video, 2.5/5 audio and 1.5/5 for extras.
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how many times do we hear non-story speculative horseshit like this?.then they add a bunch of extra shit that was never in the book. IF this movie ever gets made that is.
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The movie was an adaption and a pretty weak one at that. If they keep with the novels and the ideas and themes it has, this movie could be great. What I'd give to see a Homer, Ripper or Tangler realized on screen!
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Let this die.
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It's an "edgier" Logan's Run.
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...the new version will be down as German internet shiezer-porn.
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Was the name of the sequel. Great book also. I do like the idea of Logan's Rerun, though I'm not sure how far that fat dude from What's Happening? would actually get. I guess that's a future where your time doesn't expire until you've consumed 100,000 twinkies.
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It would be nice if this writer had something decent on his resume.
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no JayLenoTookMyJob, edgier AND darker. needs to be dark , like the dark knight, infact ALL new movies have to be dark(tm)! dark dark dark. with a dash of gritty .otherwise it wont win awards!
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I am more than man, more than machine! Magnificient am I not?
- the question has been answered Logan 5.
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is just about over.
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artifacting. True case of feel great downloading it. In fact download Gangs of newyork while you're at it. It's completely legal and moraly fine to download HD movies of transfers this bad. I'm talking when they let some intern add dnr and edge enhancement and shit to a film. It's a film! It's already high def you fucking idiots. The gangs transfer is the worst HD transfer I've ever seen. Shutter Island is in the top btw
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and that's not shit.
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Jun 17, 2010 11:32:35 AM CDT
Deguassed speaks the truth..... Involved with FRINGE ,I'm down!
by canidate_micheal
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The TV series has been available for some time at Amazon. Needless to say, it's unavailable unless you live in the US. Rather annoying really, since it was a great series and I want to buy it.
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It's so easy to fool kids.
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Jun 17, 2010 12:16:08 PM CDT
This is the new writer for Transformers 3 also Merrick
by eddiemurphyslaugh
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In all seriousness, his sci-fi is amazing and I love that he's writing it. Good stuff, good stuff.
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even with its many, many flaws. However, this was one of the first summer blockbusters (if not the first) to sacrifice a coherent and logical ending for the sake of big stupid explosions and feel -good nonsense. I mean, the computer is smart enough to keep thousands of people alive for hundred of years but when faced with the fact that "There is NO Sanctuary" it just melts down and explodes half of the city. Or the idea that Logan is a hero - by causing the destruction of the domed city, he has doomed most of its population to certain death - these people have been fed and cared for by the central computer their entire lives - now they are all going to starve, if they don't freeze to death first in their flimsy and revealing robes.
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Jun 17, 2010 12:36:03 PM CDT
So this movie features Wolveriene's running a marathon, right?
by cartoonfanboy
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gave me my first hard on. and she still produces the same effect.
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THERE IS NOOOOOOO SANCTUARYYYY!
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I thought it was mandatory to hire a hack writer and shit director to misunderstand all of the things that made the original good. I'm cautiously optimistic...
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You know it's coming. 24 hours of "Logan's Run," over, and over, and over...
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Samberg plays a 29 year old slacker living in his parents' bio-dome. As he nears his 30th birthday, he's fine with going to Carousel since he's pretty much been a loser in life, but he's never been with a lady! So he and his buddy (a hilarious cameo by Aziz Ansari) embark on a quest to get Samberg laid before Last Day. You got your mandatory sequence of dating failures with a succession of freaks and overweight women, then as Carousel looms he meets-cute with Jessica (Mila Kunis). I'm stopping there because I've given you people enough. What do I have to write the script for you?
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I love Logan's Run a great deal. It is one of the first films I ever saw in the 70's as a kid. And some years back, I had a name change (my last name was for shit) so I changed my middle name to Logan, all because of this film. I Love it!
I have the three novels, and though there certainly is a huge world there, I can't say I'm a big fan of the way they are written, or of some of their content. For myself, it is one of those rare cases where the film actually surpassed the source material. So, I'm not sure if a new movie, one that is being more loyal to the source, is such a good thing. I love the film, and what some people look at as flaws, I've always seen fairly easy to explain. Sure, it could be done, updated, but I don't really see the need. Whatever. I'd probably watch a remake, and probably dislike it, but who knows. Doubt they could get actors with the same caliber of the original. -
...is on the short list for being the worst genre show ever made. They added Donald Moffat (from The Thing and a bunch of other, better stuff) as a friendly android who joined Logan and Jess on their adventures in and around abandoned "super modern" 60s buildings. Greg Harrison who went on to do bigger tv things, played Logan, and Heather Menzies, from Sssss and Piranha, played Jessica. So so terribly bad. But it had a killer opening theme. Lot of bad tv in the 70s but a lot of good music over the opening credits.
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I would not say it was that great, but it wasn't that bad. It held my attention. I think you have to look at the time it came out in and think of it in that context. If you cant, then of course you are going to have trouble with it.
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why would you want to watch it at all?
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Please, no big battle scene at the end, where the "rebels" defeat the "government."
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Not too sure about the producer, though.
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Much better than the movie. (Which was good in it's own way, but totally different from the books) They're out of print, so good luck finding them, but they're worth the effort. Oh, and Garland's an excellent choice for this, I hope it comes together soon! (and the TV show sucks! I even hated it as a kid; boring and redundant!)
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and blu-ray too!
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That's got to count for something right?
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"And made The Island as his vision of Logan's Run."
Yeah, that's what they call "plagiarism", a technique useful to hacks and chiselers, and Bay is both. -
...if you liked it, cool. Maybe I would think of it differently now, but as a kid who had just read Logan's Run (still remember the gangbang of Logan as one of my first brushes with grownup sex) it seemed really tv action standard and a little bit less. Zardoz...all three? Because I liked the first novel. It was compact and concise, knew what it wanted to say, said it and got out. But the next two books seemed really tacked on.
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What happened to George Clayton Jhonson(sic)? Did he not co-write Logans Run or did he split the writes (sic) like Romero and his Buddy?
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You said it. And Bay, the hack and chisler he is, not only he ripped off from LOGAN'S RUN but from PARTS: THE CLONUS HORROR. Bay is like Jar Jar Abrams, if you are going to rip off from much better people, you better rip off from more then one source. Or else how could they fill 2 hours of screentime?
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...remember the talk puppets? "Talk to me, Logey!" I read the whole book wanting the puppet to show up and say "It's kicking time!"
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I haven't read the books, but I say the TV series holds up well. Better than the movie with its silly last reel. The TV show had some interesting concepts and had some good writers working on it. It certainly compares well to most of the genre dreck churned out these days. It certainly was not 'terribly bad' and not even close to being on a shortlist of the worst anything. If you watch it with no expectations, I think you'll enjoy it.
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The thing i learned about watching the old shows is to focus on the story instrad of the special effects and the wooby sets. If one does that, and the scrips are smart and the stories interesting and the characters well developed, then no wooby sets or cheap special effects will screw my enjoyment. In fact, they can be even charming.
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and probably a few other writers from the ST realm. Still not available on dvd yet. Part of the reason may be that it only had 10 or so episodes. That's a touch commitment for a production company to make (but that may change when the new movie comes out.) Same with the out of print novels. Being that i pick up everything ellison, logan will be an automatic buy. Still need to get the vic n blood graphic novel and The Starlost tv show and then my obsession will be complete. (but no obsession in the world will ever make me get "The Oscar." yikes!)
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Thanks Merrick. I am the writer of the LOGAN'S RUN: LAST DAY comic series. I greatly appreciate your enthusiasm and support of the comics. I'm a lifelong fan of LOGAN'S RUN and its been a dream to collaborate with William F. Nolan.
Last Day is 6-issues and I just started writing the sequel LOGAN'S RUN: AFTERMATH. -
...I remember it differently. Just to understand your position better, do you like the original Battlestar Galactica more than the remake? Do you have similarly fond memories about Buck Rogers or the Planet of the Apes television show? And not fondness based on nostalgia. I get the warm and fuzzies every time I watch the Lloyd Bridges or Patrick Macnee two parters of BSG, too, and I still smile at Roddy McDowell soldiering bravely through crap. But I'm talking about actual quality here, not fond memories of our long ago days of entertainment innocence.
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Logan's Explosion
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Jun 18, 2010 8:30:50 PM CDT
The most interesting thing about the Saul David/ Michael Anderso
by carsondyle62
...is the story behind the film's making (lovingly chronicled in the Fall `76 issue of Cinefantastique).
The problem with adapting this particular novel is that it's very much a creature of the time in which it was written.
Once upon a time there was this thing called "The Generation Gap," and the cultural tensions associated therewith provided Nolan and Johnson with a strong thematic hook. At the time, back in the 60's, young people were all too primed to rebel against authority as manifested by their elders.
How times have changed. Most young people I know can't wait to become their parents, and the notion of "youth in revolt" has become a dramatic non-starter. It will be interesting to see by what means the latest screenwriter-for-hire manages to make the material relevant. Garland certainly isn't the first to try, and I doubt he'll be the last.
God help the WGA when it comes time to arbitrate the final writing credits. -
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As much of a fan of science fiction as I am, I've never liked "Logan's Run."
The premise of the story is way too simple. And too banal to be believed as part of any human existence. It ignores cutting edge science and all that might come with it. Sorry, but it just does.
If there's a godlike AI controlling the human population of the story, then yes, I could get behind it. Because all of a sudden, it becomes a struggle for existence. Which is far more dramatic than the book or the 70's movie.
I wish Alex Garland well on this. I hope he injects some life into what I consider to be a lifelessly simplistic story. -
...after reading psalamoff's comment above, maybe the new comic is what I should read next. Sounds a lot more interesting.
I'll check it out. -
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