Logan’s Run Reboot Will Reportedly Have A Female Lead

Reportedly Warner Bros. is going to make another attempt at rebooting Logan’s Run, but this time with a female lead, according to The Tracking Board.

They’ve heard WB is “hunting down a fresh writer to develop the film for a female lead.” Outside of that, there is no further information provided.

For many years, WB has tried to reboot the cult classic 1976 science-fiction film, which starred Michael York (Austin Powers) and Jenny Agutter (Captain America: The Winter Soldier). It was based on the 1967 novel of the same name written by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. WB has hired many directors, like Joel Silver, Bryan Singer, Joseph Kosinski, Carl Erik Rinsch and Nicolas Winding Refn, but each time they held off on giving them the green light.

The story takes place after an apocalyptic event in the 23rd century. The survivors have created a hedonistic society inside of a domed city. Everything seems to be swell for the inhabitants, but there is one little catch: when you reach a certain age (21 in the novel, 30 in the film) you are killed. They do this because they have limited resources, keeping the population from growing beyond their means. Most of the citizens are okay with this trade off, and happily go off to be vaporized in a final ritual known as Carrousel. But there are some people who are groovy about being killed off so soon and they try to make a run for it. They’re hunted down by Sandmen. The plot kicks into gear when Logan 5 (Michael York), a Sandman, becomes a runner.

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