Logan's Run (2007 film)

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This article is about the 21st century film remake in development hell. For the 1976 film, see Logan's Run (1976 film).

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Logan's Run is the tentative name of a proposed new film to be based on the 1967 novel of the same name. It would be a remake of the Oscar-winning 1976 film version.

Warner Bros. has held the rights to the project since 1997.^[1] Although IMDb classifies the film as a 2007 release^[2], Bryan Singer, the man most recently behind the project, told an audience at Comic-Con 2006 that the project is currently on hold.^[3], a statement corroborated by the fact that the production office for the remake was recently taken over by a team working on a live-action version of Speed Racer^[4]

[edit] Development history

In June 2006, co-author William F. Nolan chronicled the history of Hollywood's interest in a Logan's Run remake in an article published on a fan's website^[1]. According to Nolan, the first discussion about a remake occurred in November 1994, when he and his wife met with producer Michael DeLuca in the offices of New Line Cinema, which was at the time part of Turner Entertainment. Nothing happened after that meeting until early 1996, when Atlas Entertainment talked to Nolan and he helped prepare a short concept outline. Nothing came of the discussion with Atlas, though shortly afterwards Nolan wrote a 50-page version of the story for Turner. By May 1996, Nolan spoke to David Kirschner about it, and by June Nolan was told that Turner wanted to do the film without any input from him.

In November 1996 Nolan discovered that Warner Bros. now owned the rights that Turner had previously held from its purchase of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer library of films. In March 1997, Nolan pitched his remake ideas to Jeff Robinov, who passed on Nolan's proposal and declared Nolan to be "too close to the material." This prompted Nolan to consider offering his Logan's Run sequels to other production companies and studios; Warner Bros. (now a corporate sibling to New Line) remained interested enough in the original story that they offered Nolan a "holdback agreement" so that they could hold all rights to the story line. Nolan accepted the deal.

By June 1999 the project had had a writer for over a year (Skip Woods) and a new producer (Joel Silver). By July 2003 Woods was no longer associated with the project. Three months later, Bryan Singer was part of the project. Singer's involvement was put on hold in July 2004, when he signed on for a new Superman film.

As of June 2006, Warner Bros. is seeking a new director and new writers; according to IMDb^[2], Joel Silver remains the producer. A July 2006 interview with James McTeigue ended with McTeigue saying he had been "toying with [remaking 1976's] Logan's Run for a while"^[5].

Nolan's holdback agreement expires in June 2007.