LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Alex Garland, the writer behind the Danny Boyle-directed movies “28 Days Later…” and “Sunshine,” is in negotiations to tackle “Logan’s Run.”
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Although best remembered as the 1976 film starring Michael York, Jenny Agutter and Farrah Fawcett, “Run” began as a 1967 novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson; it’s the book, which had a greatly expanded world compared to the movie, that Warner Bros. is turning to.
The studio has long been trying to get a movie version off the ground, and late last month began talking with commercials veteran Carl Rinsch to come aboard as director.
“Logan’s Run” is set in a future society that demands the death of everyone upon reaching a certain age. Anyone who veers from that destiny is dubbed a “runner” and is hunted by operatives known as Sandmen. Logan is a Sandman who is forced to go on the run.
Garland wrote the novel and screenplay for “The Beach,” launching a fruitful collaboration with Boyle that included 2002′s “28 Days Later…” and 2007′s “Sunshine.” He adapted Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel “Never Let Me Go” and is a producer on the upcoming Fox Searchlight drama starring Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield.
