So Logan’s Run was
briefly in the news over the weekend when a forgotten planned reboot of the
film got new life with the announcement of an actual director attached to the
project. For the most part it
isn’t that surprising the Logan’s Run
reboot has languished in movie limbo for as long as it has. The ‘80s work as farm for reboots and
remakes because of the unmitigated amount of creativity and cash in the
blockbuster scene and the corporate dominated consciousness of animation at the
time. Conversely viable ‘90s
reboot properties may be more limited but they’re also more lucrative due to
the growing trend of ‘90s nostalgia.
The ‘70s is
much more of a fallow period for rebootable material. A lot of the stand out pieces of ‘70s cultural were
incredibly driven by the auteurship of their maker like The Godfather, Taxi Driver,
or The French Connection. Alternatively projects like Jaws, The Exorcist, or Dirty Harry
have become so engrained as classics of their genre a remake would come off as
tired and uninspired like 2013’s ill-advised Carrie rehash. There
are some exceptions to this like the upcoming Creed film that looks to reboot/continue the Rocky story and I think Logan’s
Run could be such an exception, not because of the film though, but because
of the TV show.
