This guy created quite the review of the 1976 movie. I especially like his illustrations – and I totally agree with the old guy comment. Check it out at: http://iprobablylikedit.blogspot.com/2011/11/logans-run.html
Copyright 2011 William F. Nolan
Check out this interview with me by Jimmy Pudge.
Jimmy says:
In terms of his writing, Jimmy can honestly say he owes much to the teachings
Author William F. Nolan
of William F. Nolan. I was already a dedicated fan, having read Logan’s Run more times than I can recall. One day, I lucked out and happened to pick up a copy of How to Write Horror Fiction at the public library. I sat at the table reading that book until they threw me out, then came back the next day to polish it off. I’ll never forget Nolan’s breakdown of his short story “The Pool.” A light bulb went off in my head about how to write a damned good story.
I realized an interview was necessary, not only because I admire the man for his remarkable fiction and nonfiction, but also to help writers gain insight into his thoughts on writing and the eBook phenomenon. I also wanted to know if the remake of the film Logan’s Run was ever gonna happen.
Read more at The Pudge Factor.
Copyright 2011 William F. Nolan
Here’s an interesting podcast. People keep asking what I think about In Time. I think I’ll keep my mouth shut and let you decide.
Image via Wikipedia
http://www.eftrou.com/index.php/2011/11/08/movie-review-in-time-vs-logans-run/
Copyright 2011 William F. Nolan
Ryan Gosling’s Logan’s Run remake gets a hot new writer — but will that be enough?.
Let’s hope it gets done this time. I’ve been waiting FIFTEEN years for them to remake Logan’s Run. I’d like to see it before I’m in a wheelchair.
Copyright 2011 William F. Nolan
Quoting from :http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/motion-captured/posts/will-ryan-goslings-crystal-go-red-in-logans-run-remake
Thursday, Feb 10, 2011 9:10 PM
Replacing Michael York in a ‘Logan’s Run’ remake? Easy. Replacing a mostly-naked Jenny Agutter? Impossible
Once a film or a story has been around long enough to have been made officially, then remade unofficially a bunch of times, I have to ask seriously… what value is there in doing another official remake?
When you look at Michael Bay’s “The Island,” I know people love to say that it’s a rip-off of the justifiably obscure “Clonus,” but I’d argue there’s a whooooole lot of of “Logan’s Run” in there, too. And Andrew Niccol is in the middle of his own film about a society where no one ever ages past 30, starring Justin Timberlake, Olivia Wilde, Alex Pettyfer, Amanda Seyfriend, and a bunch of other really young and pretty people.
I don’t love the ’70s film version of “Logan’s Run,” but I like elements of it, and I really dig the novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. There’s so much material in the book that wasn’t used in the film that I think there’s room for a filmmaker to come in and really turn it into something new, but doing so means you can’t just indulge nostalgia like most remakes do. This can’t be a pandering cash-in, because frankly, I don’t think that would play for anyone. It has to be something new, something that stands alone.
I’ll say this much: hiring Nicolas Winding Refn to direct the film seems to be a step in the right direction. I really liked “Bronson,” the film he made with Tom Hardy a few years ago, but before that, I was already a fan thanks to the “Pusher” trilogy, and the notion of him playing around with a studio’s money on something with the scale of “Logan’s Run” is exciting.
This is a guy who I would trust with big money precisely because he’s not a big money director. He’s had to fight to get the phenomenal imagery of his films up on the screen, and he hasn’t been able to solve issues just by throwing cash at them. He’s ready to come in and make something like this with a voice we don’t really see in the studio system.
It’s also encouraging that Alex Garland is the last screenwriter connected to the material. I think he could take the novel and really pull something strange and wonderful out of it.
But the thing that’s got me most interested is the news today that Ryan Gosling may come aboard to star. I’ve been intrigued by Gosling’s work since the 2001 Sundance Film Festival where “The Believer” played. Gosling doesn’t seem to me to be chasing stardom so much as resisting it, and he’s confounded studios by turning down some pretty major movies over the last few years. If he ends up making this one, I think he and Refn could have great energy together, and they’re both resistant enough to business as usual that this could be anything but.
According to the report at Deadline, this is already into the deal stage, so we may well be looking at a film that will happen in the near future, and if so, we’ll make sure to keep you posted.
Copyright 2011 William F. Nolan
Here’s a nice little review of Logan’s Run that just popped up.
The author makes a good point about the influence of the MGM movie in 1976 – a year before Star Wars.
Copyright 2010 William F. Nolan
In the spotlight today: http://www.theworldoflogansrun.com/ – my good friend, John Rorke, has been faithfully maintaining this excellent website for a very long time.
There are some great things there for Logan fans!
“Sometime in the 23rd Century… the survivors of war, overpopulation and pollution are living in a great domed city, sealed away from the forgotten world outside. Here, in an ecologically balanced world, mankind only lives for pleasure. freed by the servo-mechanisms which provide everything.
There’s just one catch.
Life must end at thirty, unless reborn in the fiery ritual of carousel.”
Copyright 2010 William F. Nolan
William F. Nolan\’s wife tells him he invented the Internet. In Nolan\’s 1967 science-fiction novel \
via Prolific author William F. Nolan lured to Vancouver by an unlikely friendship | The Columbian.
Copyright 2010 William F. Nolan
Read my interview in Jazma Online:
“I grew up in Kansas City MO For a time I was an artist with Hallmark …”
“I was a real comic book fiend at age 12 I read and …”
From: http://shannonmccabe.com/Jazma_William_F_Nolan.html
Copyright 2009 William F. Nolan
William F. Nolan has teamed up with Bluewater Productions to present a new series of comic books based on Logan’s Run. The first issue should be available on shelves in November 2009.
Logan's Run Lastday
Copyright 2009 William F. Nolan
