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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. 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.