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Sunshine Writer Joins Logan's Run Remake
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."
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.
The Island (2005) was already a remake. I was pissed because in LR you got to see tits. Not so with Scarlett Johansson. Damn Hollywood.
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There's nothing in Logan's Run that needs 3D.
Jenny Agutter's tits in 3D!
I'll bet it will be great, until about half-way through, when the sunburned space zombie appears.
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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.
Blasphemy is a human right. Blasphemophobia kills.
I'd read the book first, and IMHO, they really fsck'ed up the movie. The gun was MUCH cooler in the novel (I'd like to see how they do the 'Homer' fired out of it), and much more riveting, and character development was better as you saw Logan change through his run. That and the Sandmen were badasses, trained in all sorts of arts, like a Jason Bourne type in abilities.
At least...go back to the age limit of 21 (not 30), and for God's sake...don't do the stupid carousel thing they made up for the movie.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
I had about the same reaction. Well, that and the otherwise generally-inaccurate science, such as the astronaut wrapping himself in insulation to protect him from the cold of deep space.
In reality, without any atmosphere to draw heat away from him via convection, he would really only lose heat via black-body radiation. Sure, the virtually-nothing of space is nearly absolute zero, but that is only because there is virtually nothing but empty space to absorb the heat from the sunlight... and by the same token it cannot absorb the heat from your body either. It is a common misconception.
Are we are going to get the same piss-poor treatment of science in this one?
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
They're still working on making sure there's an equivalent of Top Gun for every profession:
... etc.
Why can't the solar physicists get an unrealistic movie that makes them seem cool, too?
Build it, and they will come^Hplain.