Details on Singer's Aborted Logan's Run hit the net!
Back Row Chatter has all the dirt on Bryan Singer's Logan's Run with an in depth look at Chris McQuarrie's script.
LOGAN's RUN is one of those films I've never been totally familiar with. I watched it one lazy Sunday afternoon but wasn't really paying much attention. That's no slight on the film, I just wasn't in the mood to engage with it and it was more an "on in the background" kind of thing. I did remember perking up after seeing Jenny Agutter's breasts (way before the watershed, too, that's Channel 5 for you!), though! I was excited to see Bryan Singer's version, the concept is fascinating and I'm always game to see well executed science fiction films. Unfortunately, SUPERMAN RETURNS left Singer burnt out and with the disappointing box office take for that movie I think Warner Bros felt it best if LOGAN's RUN changed hands. Joel Silver has been driving the project for a few years now and Timothy Sexton (CHILDREN OF MEN) is working on a script for Joseph Kosinski to direct. It's worth noting that LOGAN's wasn't on the pre-strike list that circulated a while back so don't expect to see it in the next couple of years. If you're a fan of the original movie then head on over to Back Row Chatter to read Patrick's excellent in depth article on the Chris McQuarrie script that Bryan Singer intended to shoot. Here's an excerpt from the review:-
"The script opens at some unspecified time in the future. Were told that technology has been able to make the world a near utopia and as a result the population soars. Without any prior warning a massive supervolcanic event takes place in Yellowstone National Park, destroying the majority of the North American continent and plunging the world underneath a global sheet of ash clouds. Theres a chilling image that McQuarrie on just the fourth page as we watch a lone astronaut in orbit above the Earth watching the dark cloud spread across the planet, the image hes witnessing reflected in his helmets visor. Planet Earth: Lastday. "In the next moment we are introduced to Logan 5, a 20-year-old elite Sandman, the best of the best. Logan and his best friend, fellow Sandman Francis-7 (19 years of age) are taking down runners and the last one theyre chasing after is named Doyle-4. They discover to their surprise that Doyles lifeclock (the crystal on his palm) isnt being picked up by their scans, something that shouldnt be possible. After a harrowing pursuit where the runner and Sandmen use vators (like the cars in the 76 movie but they can go anywhere, even straight up), Doyle commits suicide by throwing himself from the vehicleand its here that we discover that Logan and everyone he knows live inside a 20-mile long cylinder. Remember playing Halo for the first time and being able to look up and see the ring continuing on up and into the sky? Thats kind of what its like for Logan as he watches Doyle float in weighlessness and then start to increase in velocity as he falls down to the other side of the world. It should be plainly evident at this stage in the movie that Logans world isnt anywhere on Earth."It looks like McQuarrie and Singer tried to broaden the scope of the movie and with modern effects technology it could have been truly breathtaking. If the film gets made in its latest incarnation I'll be curious to see if it bares a resemblance to this script. source - back row chatter