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| Logan's Run (2008) concept art by Ed Natividad |
A remake of the 1970s classic film Logan's Run has been in "development hell" since the mid-1990s. The movie follows the plot of the 1967 book by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson about a future dystopia where everyone over the age of 21 kills themselves and are supposedly "reborn" in new bodies. The movie follows two "runners" who try to escape their fate. Bryan Singer was passionate about making the film telling Ain't It Cool News, "My desire to do that film is so much so that I'm already pre-vizing [pre-visualizing] LOGAN'S RUN simultaneously while we're making SUPERMAN, so that by the time I'm done making SUPERMAN, I'll have LOGAN'S RUN completely pre-vized. I've already got five major sequences pre-vized, including Carousel. It's extraordinary, things you've never seen before. I'm usually that excited about something this far out, but if I showed you the pre-viz, I think you'd get a big kick out of it." But, after filming Superman Returns he dropped the project.
Last year Ken Levine, creator of the Bioshock video game franchise, was hired to write the script for the remake. So, it could still happen. Till then, let's look at some concept art and storyboards that show what it could have looked like.
Trevor Goring, Ed Natividad and Ben Procter are all professional concept and storyboard artists who've worked on big budget films like Thor: The Dark World (2013), The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) and Tron: Legacy (2010). They shared concept art and storyboards on their sites. Some images are from the French magazine L’Ecran Fantastique. I don't read French, so your guess is as good as mine what the article says.
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Ben Procter
"Citizens must take part in a ritual called 'Carrousel' [sic] in which they are vaporized with the chance of being 'renewed'. - Wikipedia
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| Carousel |
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| "Cenotaph mechanism for reprocessing human beings." |
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| "Cenotaph mechanism for reprocessing human beings" |
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| "Glass House" club |
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| "Glass House" pleasure module |
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| "Glass House" pleasure module |
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| Environment for "Thinker" AI |
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| Environment for "Thinker" AI. |
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| Environment for "Thinker" AI |
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| Environment for "Thinker" AI |
"Sandmen" are tasked with hunting down the "runners."
Here's a Google translation of the caption for these storyboards: "Two illustrations representing the hero first hunter, before being expelled" ("Ci-dessous Deux illustrations de Trevor Goring représentant le héros d'abord chasseur. avant d'être chassé")
Here's a Google translation of the caption: "Several concepts proposed for the version of Bryan Singer. Guy Dyas, responsible for the design, had favored a fairly sleek futuristic universe." ("Ci-dessus et el-contre . Plusieurs concepts envisagés pour la version de Bryan Singer. Guy Dyas. responsable du design. avait privilégié un univers futuriste assez épuré.")
Click the links to see more of Trevor Goring (trevorgoringart.com), Ed Natividad (EdNatividad.com) and Ben Procter's (BenProcter.com) stunning portfolios.
Click on the links if you want to see more of Trevor Goring, Ed Natividad and Ben Procter's work or Logan's Run on my blog.
What do you think of the concept art and storyboards? Would you have enjoyed a Logan's Run remake?
Images via Comic Book Movie (Nailbiter111)
About Logan's Run
Book Summary: "It's the 23rd Century and at age 21... your life is over! Logan-6 has been trained to kill; born and bred from conception to be the best of the best. But his time is short and before his life ends he's got one final mission: Find and destroy Sanctuary, a fabled haven for those that chose to defy the system. But when Logan meets and falls in love with Jessica, he begins to question the very system he swore to protect and soon they're both running for their lives. When Last Day comes, will you lie down and die... or run!"
Directed by Bryan Singer
Starring Ryan Gosling
Planned release date: 2008
© Copyright 2008 Warner Bros. All rights reserved
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I like the bikes. I can see the TRON influence in them.
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