Logan's Run, re-make, anyone?
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Saturday, July 8, 2006 02:05
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I've always had a soft spot for "Logan's Run". After the movie I read the book and it's sequel "Logan's World" (the first voluntary reading of my life).
Making a movie closer to as originally written would, of course, please most science fiction fans and have little mass appeal. Even the morons running movie studios understand this so it'll never happen.
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Quote:Did you like the book better?
Originally posted by wildbill:
I've always had a soft spot for "Logan's Run". After the movie I read the book and it's sequel "Logan's World" (the first voluntary reading of my life).
And did you read that not-so-good "Logan's Search"?
(If not, don't bother...)
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Why not remake it? people watch films multiple times and read books over and over.
I have seen remakes that were good and some that were lousy. It's no big deal to me, if I think it will be bad, I don't watch it.
Certainly the first Logan's Run could not be rated so high that a remake would be an insult to the original
The only possible objection I can imagine is the resources spent remaking a film that could have been spent on making Hyperion or even Ender's Game
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Oh lord NO! Logans Run was one of the films of my time, like Serenity is for a lot of people here. I'm not saying it's up to parr... well actually it's one of the few that are, but then Logans Run was made when movies actually used intellect over effect. If they remake it you know it'll all be about the flash and bang, that's why Serenity stands out among the go se out there.
Logans Run was character based, CHRACTER! The suits have forgotten how to put character and sci fi together. Either it's epic or cheesy, but never moving or profound. LR had a message that would be lost these days. If they follow the book or original movie then maybe yes, it will be good but as someone once said "I have a bad feeling about this."
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Quote:I was 16 when I saw it in the theatre, a full year before that next decent sci-fi flick, what was it...ummm, oh- Star Wars.
Originally posted by Misstressahara:
Oh lord NO! Logans Run was one of the films of my time, like Serenity is for a lot of people here.
I still love Logan's Run. The characters made it work- their ambivilance...
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you'd think with all those screen writers all over hollywod that one of them might be able to write something original. I can literally feel their IQ's dropping:)
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Hollywood have run out of ideas so they just keep pouring out sub standard re-makes. Logans Run is a classic (mmmmm Jenny Agutta naked) you cannot remake it. I recently seen the re-make of The Fog and it was diabolical. The only re-make I have liked over recent years is Dawn of the Dead because that was totally re-invented. OK it isn't as good as Romero's classic but I think it's not bad.
It'll be interesting to see the re-make of Logans Run but I don't hold any hopes for it being any good.
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If done well it could be good, it's a film that could pose serious questions and social commentary if it didn't hit Camembert on the cheese scale.
But having said that nearly all remakes are a just crap released to cash in on a name because hollywood has run out of ideas.
But Chris, before you go bad mouthing remakes of 70's cheese I have two words for you:
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