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The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Great idea. Lots of ways to possibly screw it up, but still a great idea.
They want to remake Logan’s Run.
If memory serves, Logan’s Run had two hawttie guys and one hawttie gal. I hope the hawttie guys look freakin’ different so I can tell what’s going on. You’ll recall that according to the story, nobody over thirty has any business…being. So we have better-than-even odds the producers will see this as an opportunity to get work for the tender puppy-faced set of 23-year-olds, which of course are hurting for it. Yeah, I mean that sarcastically.
A rational ponderance of the evidence says this will suck. They’re going to find three people with big names, no more than 25 years good, and they’re going to try to pull in the ten-to-fourteen year old little girls with some non-threatening-looking men. Super-duper short haircuts. Eyebrow tweazing. No talking in deep voices or low tones. Jessica VI, similarly, will be played by a girl with a hot bod but otherwise non-threatening. Horrible acting. Something like Jessica Alba minus ten years.
And one of my favorite peeves, the two fellas will be groomed the same and costumed the same and have the same facial structure and physique, so that during a nighttime scene you can’t tell who’s who or what’s going on.
Logan’s Run is all about the classic dystopian society — so throw in a few George Bush references, all the better to make sure you’re invited to the next Hollywood wine-and-cheese party, and you’ve got a crappy movie.
Now here’s what I’d do.
Logan is played by a 40-year-old guy. Because I’m 40. I know, the story says he can’t be older than thirty…but hell’s bells, Hollywood shaves ten years off an actor’s age all the time. And our faces have the lines that rugged adventurous men are supposed to have. We can glower with our eyebrows. We got crinkles by our eyes that make us look like we know something you don’t…which is generally the case. Look at Harrison Ford in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Forty-year-old guy. There ya go.
Francis is completely different. From half a mile away, you can tell him apart from Logan. Too much to ask? If Logan has short hair, Francis has long hair.
And they both have facial hair and a real pair of eyebrows. When either one of them glower at you, you get scared. The twelve-year-old girls will just have to find a way to cope.
Jessica VI? Easy. Scaaarrrrlllleeetttttt………
Easy on the eyes, and she knows how to act. Look no further.
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