Carl Erik Rinsch in line for the Logan’s Run remake

The remake of 'Logan’s Run', is one of those projects that hasn't had the easiest of time getting off the starting block, it sits in production limbo as scripts and announcements come and go, but it now sees a ray of light in the form of director Carl Erik Rinsch. 

The ads director linked to Ridley Scott’s company who came to studios’ attention thanks to short film The Gift has been attached to several high-profile films of late, including the Alien prequels and the still-developing 47 Ronin. So far, the sum total of movies he has in production is zero (though 47 Ronin is apparently scheduled for January), but then getting any film off the ground, particularly in these budget-conscious times, is never an easy task.

If Rinsch does sign, he’ll have to wait a while, since producers Akiva Goldsman and Joel Silver are planning to bring a new writer aboard.

Based on the 1967 utopia/dystopia SF novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson, Logan's Run depicts an idealised post-nuclear society which has sealed itself into protective and idyllic domes, and keeps its population within manageable numbers by killing citizens in a supposed 'rite of renewal' at the age of 21.

The MGM 1976 adaptation of the novel had to raise the age of mandatory death to thirty, as that film was made many years before there was such an available plethora of young actors who could command box-office figures as now. This is a different age, and all rumours over the last three years have suggested that the film will return to 21 years as the maximum permitted age in the lotus-eating society.