The 1976 sci-fi cult classic Logan's Run served as an early inspiration in the creation of BioShock, and Ken Levine was recently hired by Warner Bros. to write the remake. This may seem like an odd choice by the studio yet Levine originally started out as a screenwriter until moving into the gaming industry.
Levine shares what he hopes to deliver in his take on Logan's Run and why the project is so important to him in a recent interview. The creative director of Irrational Games had this to say about his love for Logan's Run:
via Telegram.com - "As a writer, I owe a great debt to 'Logan's Run,'... When I saw the movie and read the book when I was 10 years old, it was my first encounter with a dystopia. If you think about the games I make, dystopias are very central to that. If 'Logan's Run' didn't have an impact on me when I was a kid, there wouldn't have been a 'BioShock."'
The original movie was based on the book written by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson, the story of a future on Earth where citizens choose to be vaporized when they turn 30 years old.
"For me, the first challenge is why people make that bargain... That was never fully answered in the book or the movie to my satisfaction. I really want to answer that question. I want to look at that society in the same way people look at Rapture and Columbia and say, 'OK. I get it. I may not wanna live there, but I get why people are on board."'
Levine has neither started writing the script nor is there any news from Warner Bros. over who will be directing. Bryan Singer and Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive) were names once attached to the remake but this is no longer the case. At the moment, the director's chair remains vacant. *Submitted by Jemma George
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