28 Days Later Scribe May Pen Logan’s Run

Just a couple of weeks back it was announced that the long delayed remake of Logan’s Run had finally landed director Carl Rinsch to helm the project. Now comes word that Alex Garland, the scribe of 28 Days Later is now in negotiations to write the new version of Logan’s Run for Warner Brothers, according to the Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision blog.

Even though the 1976 film that starred Michael York, Jenny Agutter and Farrah Fawcett is fondly remembered by many, producers Joel Silver and Akiva Goldsman are looking toward the original 1967 Logan’s Run novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson this time around. In the book, survivors of  a future holocaust live in a protected domed city, where they ritually subjected to a “re-birthing” ceremony called Carousel at the age of 21 to control the city’s population. When some find out that Carousel is a death sentence, they decide to try and leave the city, and become Runners and live outside the city’s protective dome. Logan 5, a Sandman who terminates Runners, is recruited to follow a runner and finds that there is a vast world outside the city that is worth saving, all the while being pursued by another Sandman and former friend.

Alex Garland is well versed in dystopian futures. He wrote both the novel and screenplay for The Beach which lead to a very fruitful collaboration with Oscar winning director Danny Boyle that included 2002’s 28 Days later and 2007’s Sunshine. His adaptation of Kazouo Ishiuro’s book, Never Let Me Go, starring Kiera Knightley and Carey Mulligan, will be released later this year.

At this point, there is no casting news or date set for release of the new Logan’s Run film.