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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