The “Logan’s Run” reboot has been kicking around for a few years now, without ever picking up any steam. At one point, Bryan Singer had the project on his already crowded plate of potential films, but at some point it dropped off and we figured it was left for dead. We were wrong.
Warner Bros. has found their man to direct the project and its the relatively untested Carl Erik Rinsch. The director is currently set to shoot his feature debut “47 Ronin,” a period set samurai epic with Keanu Reeves (we wish were kidding about that) and he will transition over to this project once that film is in the can. But don’t let his brief film resumé fool you. Rinsch was long attached to direct the “Alien” prequel(s) before Ridley Scott took the gig for himself and caused a Hollywood bidding war earlier this year with his sci-fi short “The Gift.” While we didn’t particularly care for the short, we did note that it was a “very slick, stylized piece of filmmaking that proves Rinsch to be very capable of handling complicated, effects-heavy action set pieces.” He is no newbie to creating eye-grabbing pieces.
However, it remains to be seen if Rinch’s talents for ads (he is on the roster of directors in Scott’s commercial company RSA) and shorts will translate to feature length films. We’re not particularly attached to the original “Logan’s Run,” at least not enough to cause any fuss over its being remade, but there is one thing that is certain: Hollywood will never top that film’s original trailer.