'Logan's Run' Is Warner Bros' 'Hunger Games,' Says Simon Kinberg

With the final installment of The Hunger Games arriving in theaters this weekend, fans of post-apocalyptic YA adventures can rest assured that plans are already in motion for a familiar brand to keep the youthful rebellion coming.

Simon Kinberg, who signed on to Warner Bros.' planned Logan's Run remake this summer, told Collider that if the remake is successful, the studio is considering the potential for Logan to run through a number of movies.

"It’s something that potentially is their Hunger Games kind of franchise — that is about a younger audience, for a younger audience with a big idea," Kinberg explained to the site.

Logan's Run takes place in a future society where citizens above the age of 21 (30 in the 1976 movie version starring Michael York) are sentenced to death. Some try to escape their fate by dropping out of society in search of a mythical area called Sanctuary, where all can live to old age.

"Logan’s Run, as you know, is the granddaddy of Maze Runner and Hunger Games and so many of these books and movies now," Kinberg continued. "So yeah, [the studio is] seeing it as a potentially really big franchise."

Kinberg joined the project back in July as writer and co-producer (with Joel Silver). The studio has been trying to get a new Logan's Run off the ground for some time, with filmmakers including Alex Garland, Bryan Singer and Nicolas Winding Refn having been attached at various points over the last few years.

In practical terms, he told Collider, the potential for a future franchise meant that while writing the screenplay for the new movie, "there is some thought about what the future films would be and where you could take Logan in future movies, but the focus is on 'Make a great movie.' It was 'Let’s make one great movie that people fall in love with, but be prepared that if they do, we could make future films. We had to be mindful of what they would look like and where you would go again with the character in the next film?' "

Kinberg also said that the new project's take on the idea — which is currently looking for a director — borrows "a lot from the original movie," paying particular attention to the original's world building and storytelling. "There's a lot from the original film in it, and then there's a lot of reinterpretation of the original film rather than just a whole scale recreation," he said.

I love Logan's Run.

Age 21 makes no sense.

I hope they don't bloat it to make a trilogy, but just do a remake of the original. It was an awesome idea for a story, and well executed.

DOn't Hollywood and bloat go hand-in-hand?

I love Logan's Run.

Age 21 makes no sense.

I hope they don't bloat it to make a trilogy, but just do a remake of the original. It was an awesome idea for a story, and well executed.

It was 21 in the novel. They changed it for the film, probably to give them a larger number of actors to choose from. I don't think there were as many good actors that could pass for 21 back then as there are today. Also, I think there were a couple of sequels to the novel, so there might be a lot of material for them to work with.

Farrah Fawcett's performance in the original is some of the worst acting ever seen in a major motion picture. I saw the movie on campus at college, the audience was convulsed with laughter.

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'Logan's Run' Remake Taps 'Hunger Games' Writer

The Hunger Games screenwriter Peter Craig is ready to dabble in one of the properties that inspired it.

Warner Bros. has tapped Craig to work on Logan's Run, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The remake of the cult classic 1976 movie has long been in development, with X-Men: Dark Phoenix director Simon Kinberg set to helm back in 2015.

The original film from director Michael Anderson centered on Logan (Michael York), an executioner in a society that kills its citizens once they reach the age of 30 as a way of conserving resources. He ends up on the run after becoming sympathetic to a group of underground railroad of Runners. The film adapted the 1967 novel by William F. Nolan.

It's appropriate that Craig is tackling the film, which Kinberg himself described in 2015 as "the granddaddy of Maze Runner and Hunger Games and so many of these books and movies now."

Craig penned the scripts to both installments of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, as well as the Chris Hemsworth war drama 12 Strong. He is also working on the upcoming Top Gun sequel.

Craig is repped by CAA.

Protein...from the sea!

Also, I have this funny book.

Logan's Run 6 is written by John Warner and Scott Edelman, it has a Paul Gulacy cover with Tom Sutton and Mike Zeck interior art. This issue is notable for the back up story, which is Thanos's first solo story. Marvel made a 7 issue series of Logan's Run based on the movie of the same name.