Isn't it wonderful when Facebook pops up a 'memory' of a past post of yours? Today the fine folks at Meta reminded me of this post from 2014:Just got done watching Logan's Run (1975) ... one of my favorite movies. Just thinking back to 2003 when film maker Victor Franko wanted me to be an Executive Producer on his remake of the film. The project was being developed for either the Sci Fi Channel (SYFY Channel) or for a feature film. We wanted a remake of the film version with a mostly UK cast. Ultimately we got dropped for Bryan Singer and a US cast .... which never got made either. They really wanted to go with the original concepts from the William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson novel. Wishing that had developed into something.
It is true that way back in 2003 film maker Victor Franko tapped me to be the executive producer of his Logan's Run remake. Franko had read my articles about the movie and thought that my ideas and visions for a new Logan's Run movie aligned with his.
At the time both of us had communications with the folks at the Sci Fi Channel (now the SYFY Channel) and there was a mutual interest in getting the movie made. Everything was beginning to fall into place very quickly.
Then, without any waring, film maker Bryan Singer stepped in and presented his vision of a remake and Sci Fi stepped on the brakes. Singer obviously had a lot more clout and a proven history in making hit movies than our team did.
Singer's project ultimately evolved beyond a made for TV movie for Sci Fi into a feature film. That's when that project stalled out for unknown reasons.
Even tough Singer's movie movie never happened, Sci Fi never had any interest after that in any Logan's Run project - even ours.
So close, yet so far.
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