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I've always loved Logan's Run. The 1976 movie has a special place in my heart. And the ill-fated 70's tv series is good, campy, fun. The costumes rock. I feel sorry for the actor who played Rem becasue he had to wear that absurd, tight green, costume. I wish these episodes would be officially released on dvd. I have a bootleg copy I got from ebay a few years ago. I love 70's Sci-Fi:
Buck Rogers, Message From Space, Gatchaman/G Force, Battlestar Galactica, Star Wars, Space 1999 and Logan's Run.

You know Bryan Singer is intending to remake the movie after he is done with Superman Returns.

Yeah I already know about the proposed remake. While I really like the first movie, nothing compares to the books. And there is no way they could make movies of them - they'd probably be NC-17.

Dang, I'll have to read the books then.  A Logan's Run remake could be good.  Alas, it probably won't.

I need to re-read them myself...it's been nearly 12 years since I originally read them.

I wasn't aware there was more than one book. I read it a couple of decades ago and I remember them running about all over the country and the age limit was 21, so most everyone was a teenager.

I have a lot of trust in Bryan Singer, so the remake may not be what everyone wants, but it will be well made.

Evidently Bryan Singer's 'Logan's Run' is supposed to adhere to the book than the 1976 version did.
But I have a soft spot for the 1976 one.

And one of the things they are going back to in the remake, as far as I know, is the age limit of 21, instead of 30, as was in the first film.

As in all such remakes, who will they get, that can top the original cast of Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Richard Jordan, Farrah Fawcett, Rosce Lee Browne, and Peter Ustinov.

Getting back about the series - I haven't seen it at all. Did SciFi ever rerun it in the '90s? I've been curious about it because I heard that Gregory Harrison played Logan.

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I know exactly what you mean! The only part of the movie I didn't like though were the cinematography, and the fact that the 42 year old scientist was completely written out of the story and replaced with an elderly man.

Here's what I wrote on IMDb about the original Logan's Run movie -

Great movie - lousy and horrible cinematography, 22 June 2005

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First off, I first saw 'Logan's Run' in 1979 at the age of 3 1/2. This is a movie that has stuck with me ever since then. Here's why - The actors' ability to convey their characters so well, and the chemistry between them. You really believe Michael York and Richard Jordan are Logan and Francis, and that they are best friends. And it's absolutely heartbreaking to see this friendship deteriorate as the movie progresses. And this chemistry is very different from the chemistry that York and Jenny Agutter have. She's great as Jessica; inquisitive and intellectual. Roscoe Lee Browne, is at first comical then positively unnerving as Box, a robot, a true character role for anyone.

Although much was changed from the book, this is still a great movie. One addition that wasn't in the book that I've always enjoyed is Carousel, and the extreme spectacle (particularly the costumes) that goes along with it. The sets and costumes were great (I particularly like the Sandmen costumes as they really stand out), the writing was pretty good, as was the score. But the cinematography was so horrible! It's as if whoever the producers had hired had only done television or something. If they had hired a better cinematographer, this would have been a truly amazing movie.