Logan Running Again

According to the Hollywood Reporter, producer Joel Silver's update of the classic SF movie LOGAN'S RUN is back up and running at Warner Brothers with a new director and new script. Commercial director Joseph Kosinski will make his feature-film directorial debut on the SF thriller, which is being written by Tim Sexton (Children of Men). Silver is producing through his Warner-based Silver Pictures. X-MEN director Bryan Singer had at one point been signed to develop and direct, with an eye toward a 2005 release. Singer had begun previsualization work on the project before he left to helm SUPERMAN RETURNS. The original LOGAN'S RUN in 1976 starred Michael York, Jenny Agutter and Farrah Fawcett and was based on a 1967 novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. The movie's premise was that anyone who reached a certain age was sentenced to death; the protagonist was a so-called Sandman dispatched to capture those who try to escape. While details of the new take are being kept mum, it is known that it will be low-tech science fiction in a futuristic setting and hew closer to the book than the 1976 movie. The new film will tackle idea of the "greater good" and people devoting themselves to an ideology blindly, while keeping the novel's concepts of runners, Sanctuary and gangs outside the system