Any fans of the 1976 sci-fi actioner LOGAN’S RUN? Any in favor of seeing it get remade?
Well gang, that’s exactly what Warner Bros. plans on doing, and they may have just found the director to do so. According to The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision Blog, commercial advertisement director Carl Rinsch is in talks to give Michael Anderson’s beloved genre tale a once-over. Fancy that!
Rinsch, who made a pair of short films in the mid-90s (THE QUIZ, LOVELY WEATHER FOR RAIN), has been looking to tackle feature filmmaking for some time now, but never found the right project to fulfill such a goal. He was, at a time, attached to helm the ALIEN prequel before Ridley Scott found enough potential in the project to keep it for himself. Rinsch is also currently attached to direct 47 RONIN and CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON.
But it was his sci-fi short THE GIFT, which he shot for Phillips Electronics, that garnered the man attention from top Hollywood brass just a month or so ago. Many wanted to see feature length adaptation of THE GIFT, but apparently Rinsch’s filmmaking skills were enough to land him a much higher profile project at a major studio.
For those who missed the original LOGAN’S RUN, the film is set:
In the 23rd century, where the survivors of a holocaust now lives within a domed city that is sealed off from the outside world. In the domed city, men and women live in a society where you can only live until you are 30-years old (due to population control and limited resources), the people have two choices: They can either take part in a extermination ceremony called “Carousel” where they are promised of being reborn or they can go on the run and escape to outside the domed city. Logan 5 is a Sandman, a elite policeman whose job is terminate all “Runners” who refuse to be exterminated on Carousel and escape to outside the city.
When Logan finds a symbol, the computer that controls all life in the city, gives Logan a undercover assignment to find and destroy a mysterious place called Sanctuary by posing as a runner, by removing the last four years of his life from his life crystal. Now on the run himself, and hunted by his partner and best friend Francis 7, Logan and a woman named Jessica 6 working for a underground resistance group that are helping all Runners search for Sanctuary escapes from the domed city and find themselves in a devastated Washington D.C, where Logan and Jessica discover another world and find there is much to live for and Logan begins to question the system.
The new incarnation of LOGAN’S RUN will be produced by Joel Silver and Akiva Goldsman.
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