Logan’s Run Remake Sets To Be Franchise!?!

The 1976 film Logan’s Run is finally making some movement since Simon Kinberg penned a new treatment and now Logan’s Run Remake Sets To Be Franchise.

It looks like the long awaited remake to the seminal 1976 sci-fi film Logan’s Run may be closer since writer/producer extraordinaire Simon Kinberg came onboard to pen the story and treatment for the remake.

If you remember Drive director, Nicholas Winding Refn was set to helm the remake with Ryan Gosling in the lead, but the two subsequently fell off the project leaving Warner Bros. searching for a treatment, director and lead.

Now CelebNMusic247.com is happy that one of our favorite films (next to Lost Horizon), which served as the foundation for countless sci-fi stories ever since, revolved around a dystopian society in which citizens are killed once they reach the age of 30 in order to control overpopulation.

CelebNMusic247.com has the 411 via Collider:

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You might say Logan’s Run was a head of itself with the plot line, but now a days the film is fitting for the current blockbuster/franchise landscape, and when Steve recently spoke with Kinberg during a lengthy interview, the producer revealed that Warner Bros. envisions the property as the beginning of a lucrative franchise, saying:

“We are talking to directors for that movie [right now]… It definitely is [a priority for the studio]. It’s something that potentially is their Hunger Games kind of franchise that is about a younger audience for a younger audience with a big idea. And Logan’s Run, as you know, is the granddaddy of Maze Runner and Hunger Games and so many of these books and movies now. So yeah, they’re seeing it as a potentially really big franchise.”

Steve subsequently asked Kinberg if the knowledge that this is intended to be a franchise impacts the specific story that he’s crafting for the remake:

“I mean it’s a little bit like what I was saying about the X-Men movies. There is some thought about what the future films would be and where you could take Logan in future movies, but the focus is on ‘Make a great movie.’ It was ‘Let’s make one great movie that people fall in love with but be prepared that if they do, we could make future films and what would they look like and where would you go again with the character in the next film?”

While one could easily see Warner Bros. simply taking the bare bones of the original film and creating some kind of Hunger Games/Divergent/Maze Runner mash-up, Kinberg says the story he’s put together maintains quite a bit from the original:

“There’s a lot from the original movie. I love the original movie and I think the storytelling in the original movie is pretty wonderful. The set up is great, I think there’s a lot of world creation that’s pretty awesome as well, though ultimately that’ll be the director’s domain. But yeah there’s a lot from the original film in it, and then there’s a lot of—I guess I would call it reinterpretation from the original film rather than just a whole scale recreation.”

Now that the Hunger Games is coming to an end Warner Bros. is reaching out to directors to helm the possible new mega teen-centric sci-fi franchises.

While Logan’s Run is a property that, like most, doesn’t need a remake, it makes more sense to cut out the middle man and go straight to Logan’s Run rather than adapting or creating yet another Logan’s Run-esque sci-fi property.

We are curious to see what becomes of Logan’s Run, because it does have a chance to be something great as long as it doesn’t end up like the Total Recall remake that lost all of its impact.

We are crossing our finger with Simon Pegg’s genius.

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