The haircuts...they HAVE to keep the haircuts.
According to Deadline, Ryan Gosling is in final talks to inhabit the role (and hopefully the haircut) that Michael York made famous in the 1976 original. The film is working off a script adapted from the original novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson, which was written by 28 Days Later and Sunshine screenwriter Alex Garland. As if that's not enough, it's being directed by the man who brought us Bronson and Valhalla Rising, Nicolas Winding Refn. Existential indie boner of epic proportions? Yep, I've got one.
For those of you who haven't seen the original Logan's Run (shame on you), it's one of those delightful little dystopian future romps, featuring a future society that lives inside a domed idyllic paradise, full of people who are ordered to die when they reach the age of 30. York/Gosling's character is a "Sandman," whose job it is to track down runners, who attempt to escape this fate. Then there are twists and stuff, which I'll leave to you to research or discover on your own.
Gosling and Refn have another film, Drive, set to come out later this year. The Logan's Run remake is currently scheduled to release next year. What do you think? You into this collection of talent taking on a beloved sci-fi classic like this? Or are you just so anti-remake that even the notion of this happening makes your blood boil? I assume that no reaction exists in-between...
Hopefully there is some unexplored elements form the book or their twist that gives good cause for a remake. Because if it is just better special effects or 3-D boobs then...
...WAIT! 3-D breasts, OK, I am on board.
Bring it on!
Because making original plots is complicated?
Lousy hollywood writers... a strike...for this?!
I don't dig 28 Days Later or Sunshine. I have not read the scripts for those films, but I think they are just average. They both open great but start to suck at the tail-end of second and then all of their third acts, for me at least. So I'll have to disagree about the writing talent.
However even better than 3D breasts. A 3D recreation of the scene in which Box ( you know the silver robot guy) stares down the audience.
I'm so ready for this remake. Oh and to echo the other comments, yeah Ryan Gosling sounds great.
I would love to see a Soylent Green remake, I love the original but always thought it would have been great to delve deeper.
A great Sci-Fi movie that definitely would benefit from an update. I know I know Hollywood keeps recycling movies and it does get annoying but this would be great. Throw in Scarlett Johansson and her perky ta-tas and I'm sold.
You make a valid point good sir, if it was remade, we would have to cross our fingers that they stick with the story rather than trying to force beliefs unto us.