X-Men & Fantastic Four Screenwriter To Pen Logan's Run Remake

Welp, you can add Simon Kinberg's name to the laundry list of screenwriters that Warner Bros. have brought in over the years to work on their Logan's Run remake.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Kinberg has been hired to pen a script for a remake of 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.

In the past, WB has brought in some major Hollywood talent to solve this riddle, but all have come up empty. The writers and directors that have been attached to it include: Alex Garland, Will Beall, Christopher McQuarrie, Joel Silver, Bryan Singer, Joseph Kosinski, Carl Erik Rinsch and Nicolas Winding Refn

Kinberg is the writer behind X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: Apocalypse and Fantastic Four. He's served as producer on all three as well as Deadpool and Star Wars Rebels. He's also a writer-producer of a Star Wars Anthology film, which his Fantastic Four director Josh Trank was attached to but unexpectedly left.

1976's Logan's Run 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.