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Sunshine Writer Joins Logan's Run Remake

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the expect-nothing-get-something dept.

bowman9991 writes "Remember to check your palm to ensure that your crystal hasn't gone black. If it has, you better start running. The 1976 science fiction classic Logan's Run, starring Michael York, is being remade in 3-D with British writer Alex Garland now onboard to write the screenplay. Garland's film Sunshine, directed by Danny Boyle, was one of the stand-out science fiction films of the last decade, and he wrote the screenplays for Leonardo DiCaprio's The Beach (based on Garland's own novel) and the science fiction horror 28 Days Later (a massive adrenaline rush of a movie). This should give first-time director Carl Rinsch some great material to work with — a great premise meets a great writer."

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  1. This is good news by Pojut · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Logan's Run is a classic in every sense and, in my opinion, shouldn't be fucked with. Still, if someone HAS to do it, the guy that wrote Sunshine (which was a modern day masterpiece) is certainly a good choice.

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    1. Re:This is good news by radtea · · Score: 5, Insightful

      which was a modern day masterpiece

      Implausible premise, implausible technology, and completely ridiculous story peopled by totally unrealistics characters. The most important rescue mission in history is crewed entirely by psychologically unstable children who routinely make trivially imbecilic decisions for no readily apparent reason.

      I guess as a reflection on how vacuous and self-involved modern Western culture it has some artistic merit, but not very much.

      To be great art there has to be at least a thread of internal logic that makes for a self-consistent story. Sunshine didn't have that: a culture so completely degenerate as to crew a ship on such an important mission with such a bunch of losers would never have been able to build the ship in the first place.

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    2. Re:This is good news by MozeeToby · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Maybe I'm the only one who really didn't like Sunshine? The premise was ludicrous, the science was laughable, and it devolved into a fantasy slasher film half way through. I prefer my science fiction to have a bit more basis in science personally.

  2. Why 3D? by Gothmolly · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There's nothing in Logan's Run that needs 3D. Are they going to do weird bullet-time Matrix-like effects of the needlers and rippers flying around?

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  3. Classic? by 16K+Ram+Pack · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I like the original Logan's Run, and it's a good story, but I don't think it's a classic. It could be remade as a better film.

  4. Re:Why remake perfectly good classics? by Lumpy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There are a LOT of good ideas. It's just that hollywood execs are too stupid to try anything new...

    HEY this made money 30 years ago.... let's remake it!

    Hey let's remake CasaBlanca but this time use Vin Diesel!

    We can remake the epic Ben Hur in 3d with laser swords on a sand planet.... Let's combine Dune and Ben Hur! Dune Hur!

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  5. Classic? What classic? by rbrander · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The original novel came out at the height of the baby boom hitting adulthood; across the developing world, the population explosion was making it look like the whole world was kids. (Erlich's "The Population Bomb" was just out, too.) So they had this world where you were shot at 20, there were only teenagers. How the high-tech machinery kept running was never explained.

    The movie raised the 20 to 30 to accommodate a not-nearly-teen Michael York. Who kept the lights on was still never explained; everybody seemed to lounge about in day-glo party clothes.

    Of course, it was terrible science fiction; many analysts were pointing to dropping birth rates in the developed world and debunking Erlich even at the time. The youth explosion of the decade was a blip. Now the world faces an increasingly aging population and it's the loss of 50-somethings from the workforce that is creating concerns.

    Apparently, they are good at keeping the lights on.

  6. Re:Dune + Ben Hur? by Capt.DrumkenBum · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hey let's remake CasaBlanca but this time use Vin Diesel!

    That is, without a doubt, the most horrifying ideas I have ever heard.

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