Never trust anyone over 30...

The remake of the 1976 sci-fi classic Logan's Run has been plagued with problems. While uber-producer Joel Silver has long been attached to the project, directors kept changing. First, it was widely believed that Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects, X-Men, X2, Superman Returns) would be directing. But as far back as January 2009 Singer was undecided about whether to move forward with the movie. When he dropped out, Joseph Kosinski, formerly a commercials director, was attached to the project as director, but ultimately decided to direct Tron: Legacy instead. Most recently Carousel was said to be courting Carl Erik Rinsch, a hot commodity in the Hollywood community due to buzz from his short The Gift.

Just yesterday, Joel Silver told MTV that the movie 'could come together soon'. What he didn't say was that Nicolas Winding Refn, who wrote and directed the 2008 critical hit Bronson (thereby kickstarting his own and Tom Hardy's careers), would be directing the new Logan's Run. And as one brilliant turn follows another - it almost never happens, right? But here it did: the Hollywood Reporter announced that Ryan Gosling has closed a deal to star in the film.

Gosling was recently overlooked in Oscar nominations for his role in the indie film Blue Valentine. His film choices tend toward interesting indies, which makes his acceptance of the role surprising. In a really fantastic way. The duo of Refn and Gosling gives the Logan's Run remake credibility.

One thing that all contributors seem to agree on is that the new film will be closer to the source material, the 1967 novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. For those who don't know, the story of 'Logan's Run' is of a dystopic future society where population is controlled by the 'renewal' of every person over 30 years of age. The main character, Logan, is a Sandman who tracks down the Runners, who try to escape renewal, only to end up on the run himself. And yeah, the 1976 movie was cheesey. Pure cheddar cheese. In a really fantastic way; and if you can look past the disco overtones and feathered hair (the original starred Farrah Fawcett Majors herself) you are in for a fun, wild rideo

One of the main differences between the book and the 1976 movie is that the cutoff age is 21 in the book and 30 in the film. Hopefully they can leave it at 30 - the youth-worshipping Hollywood machine needs no further encouragement.

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