Logan's Run

For as long as I’ve been working in this business, more than a decade at this point, someone’s been trying to remake Logan’s Run. Over the years, the seminal 1976 science-fiction movie about a dystopian future where the world is paradise for the young because everyone over the age of 30 gets euthanized has been targeted for rebootification by filmmakers ranging from Bryan Singer to Robert Schwentke to James McTeigue. I did an interview with Nicolas Winding Refn for Drive back in 2011, and at that time he was looking to make it with Ryan Gosling. (At 35 years old, he’s now too old for the part.)

A remake / reboot of Logan’s Run has been in the works for years, like, people have had children and seen them enter junior high with a mountain of pimples in the time it’s taken Warner Bros. to figure this one out. But it looks as though the studio might be closer than ever, as producer Simon Kinberg (X-Men) has offered an update on the remake, which he now says WB hopes to develop into a blockbuster franchise. Surprise…?

The world of Logan’s Run is a paradise — until you turn 30. After that, you die in a process called “Carrousel.” The movie, based on a novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson, opened in 1976, and the rights holders have been trying to remake it since at least 2000...