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Last Update 9-5-2004 More whenever
I can find the time! The Stack is now about 7
inches high of slides and photos and
articles!
A series pitch document
used to sell the series to network
executives. A high tech rebel base? Love
between logan and Jessica? Sorties back
into the Domed City? Secretes of a series
we really never got to see! Parts
obviously lifeted from a writer's guide to
the proposed series.
Russians Arrive
New
2-25-03 On The Move
With Logan's Run The Dallas
Morning News Tuesday July 5, 1975 A report
of a visit to the set during the first
week of production in Dallas. Mentions of
extras, the director, and the stars of the
movie. Obviously edited down from a larger
story to fit the avaliable space.
New
2-25-03 Russians
Arive The Dallas
Morning News Saturday July 12, 1975 A
report of a visit to Dallas of Soviet
mayors who happened to pay a visit to the
set of Logan's Run. Special thanks to mark
Taylor for these great articles!
Coming Soon To A
Web Browser Near You!
The epic tale of Lego 5, a
Sandman Mini Figure whose job is to track
down and disassemble those rebels known as
runners! An sweeping epic filmed in a
scale so small that it could only be told
with childhood blocks!
Check out the official
web site for
this motion picture as preproduction
starts!
New Carousel Participants picture posted
today. Updated 2-14-03
New
1-23-03 Logan's Run:
Re-Experiencing the Film by William F. Nolan Page
1, 2, 3,4, 5, 6, from Eric Popejoy!
Updated
12-29-02 Constume
Page gains two 3-D
rendered guns created by Gordon Carew !
Updated
12-28-02 New novel related
tribute CD by various techno artists avaliable at
here. New review
here!
Updated
12-28-02 Constume
Page gains 3 mroe
costume designs from the
Robert C. Yacncy Collection!
Updated
6-29-02
Night
Visitors Expanded
Episode Guide page gets pictures!
New 6-23-02
6 new press releases and
newspaper articles on the movie production
page.
NEWS FLASH Lost movie footage found? This was sent to me in mid-March 02!
" I work in a dvd store in West Los Angeles
right next to 20th Century Fox film Studios. So we get alot
of actors and film producers that come in all the time.
Anyway, the gentelman who put together the special edition
of Logans Run for laserdisc came in and told me that just
before they were done with the laserdisc they came upon this
extra footage- Francis tracking down a runner at the
beginning of the film and Jessica and Logan posing for
box for an ice sculpture. But MGM told him it was to
late to put it in the finished product. But that they would
just wait until a new version was put out. But it was
in the Laserdisc Newsletter and Widescreen Review that I
actually saw it in print. Cant Wait."
3-23-02
Update No Further information. All
the letters I wrote to DVD web sites and Widescreen Review
have gone unanswered.
Downloadable Audio Book read
by Willima F. Nolan
himself avaliable at www.audible.com if you ahve been unable to find this
audio cassette collectable you can now at least
listen to it.
Do not select the icon with the #1 if you
download.. it sounds like it is under
watter!
The date is May 7th, 1976 and
You Are There in SanDiego CA for a special advance preview
screening of the new motion picture form MGM called Logan's
Run. Ok, so you were not there, and you didn't get to see
it, and shortly thereafter the studio hacked a ton of stuff
out of the movie to make it shorter, and gain the film a PG
rating. While the cut footage no longer exists (it vanished
mysteriously along with the preview print) Fay Popejoy, a wonderful person, and soon to be presidenent
of the LROoF, took along a cassette tape recorder into the
theater and recorded all the audio track of this preview
screening. You only had to wait 25 years to listen to this,
so remeber where you heard it first. The movie is divided up
into 5 MP3 files. Each about 25mb in size. You will need a
MP3 player program to listen to them. And unlike Nixon's
missing tape, you can listen to these 15 minutes.
Part
I28mb In the first section you get to hear the
deleted opening sequence where Francis kills a
runner in a residence pool. The citizens then
applaud the Sandman's shot. Other hilights include:
A longer carousel sequence minus the computer
voice, more dialogue in Nursery, Francis' 'lastday
girl' cut completely form the film. Unfortunately,
while filmed, the other character in this deleted
sequence, a girl on her way to her turn at the Love
Shop, is not present. Also not present are the
Halucimill sequences as most of the drug references
had already been removed by the studio.
Part
II27mb In this
section of the film Jessica talks about flameout as
the ultimate thrill. Logan describes the effects of
Muscle. Francis announces he is going to Cathedral
to help backup Logan. We learn Holly's number is
13, and hear the infamous longer Love Shop sequence
which takes up the last four minutes of this
track,. Unfortunately the person doing the
recording's tape also ran out during this
sequence.
Part
III27mb
The conclusion of the Love
Shop sequence reveals that just about 2.5 minutes
was trimmed form this sequence. From 4:16 to 1:55!
It may have even been a few seconds longer as the
person switched tapes. At Runner HQ Logan has an
interesting line to Jessica as he tells her the
others will be here soon and she should leave. You
also get to hear Logan and Jessica talk as they
pose for the ice sculpture as well as all of Box's
cut dialogue!
Part
IV25mb The Old man
recites some deleted cat poetry. The audience
laughs quite a bit at his lines and his role.
Francis says a few different things before he dies.
Old man says a few deleted words after they bury
Francis.
Part
V17 mb
The return trip is
mostly the same. There are some brief gaps in the
sound. One or two extra old man lines as they
aproach the water gardens. Missing is the computer
voice calling people the Carousel. The surrogration
sequence is quite a bit longer than in the version
we are used to. The audience applauds at the
end.
A new
book about TV shows has a chapter
all about Logan's run! Check it out
here! or order it here
A fantastic film publication, Retrovision, is going to be
doing a retrospective on the Logan phenomena. You can check
out their web page at www.retrovisionmag.com Did they ever come out with the issue on Logan's
Run?
New William F. Nolan horror anthology out now!
Read the review.
Also check out these other
web pages: Other sites change! Not all links may work!
Got more info to add? You can
e-mail the 'DigiVoop' or visit her main site here!
Subject: Excerpt from THE FILMS OF GEORGE
PAL
Excerpt from THE FILMS OF GEORGE PAL by
Gail Morgan Hickman
(published by A.S. Barnes & Co, Inc.
in 1977).
[Upon the release of THE POWER in 1968,]
for the next two years
George Pal concentrated his efforts on
readying LOGAN'S RUN for
the cameras, a story he had first become
interested in during
preproduction on THE POWER, in
1966.
The novel by William F. Nolan and George
Clayton Johnson takes place
in the future at a time when
overpopulation has become such a problem
that human beings are only allowed to live
until they are twenty-one,
at which time by law they are executed. To
make sure people die when
they are supposed to, the government
employs a group of professional
assassins known as Sandmen. The story
focuses on Logan, a Sandman who
has turned twenty-one and does not want to
die. Instead he runs.
Hence the title.
The novel was first brought to Pal's
attention before it had been
published. He read the manuscript, like
it, and suggested to MGM that
it would make a good picture. The studio
agreed. When Pal said he was
going to buy the rights to the novel, MGM
offered to buy them for
him. In addition they would give him a
top-notch screenwriter,
Richard Maibaum, who scripted most of the
James Bond films, and a
sizable budget. Pal gladly agreed.
"Normally," he says, "I buy my own
properties. I option
it, develop it, and then offer it to the
studios. This one I
didn't. They made me such a good offer, it
was tempting. I said
okay." It was a decision Pal was to regret
afterward.
Once the script was finished Pal mad
arrangements for the picture to
be directed by Michael Anderson (AROUND
THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS).
Hundreds of preproduction sketches were
made, and a shooting date was
set for the production to begin. Then
several management changes took
place at MGM. New management personnel
came in, and the studio
production schedule was reshuffled. In the
shuffle LOGAN'S RUN
was cancelled.
But Pal did not give up. He presented his
project to the new
executives, won their approval and a new
starting date, only to have
the project cancelled again. In 1970,
after the production was
cancelled yet a third time, Pal decided to
end his relationship with
MGM and become a completely independent
producer once more.
In retrospect the situation was similar to
Pal's exit from
Paramount in 1955. Times were hard in
Hollywood. Rocketed by a series
of EASY RIDER-inspired, youth-oriented
failures, the studios were in
financial trouble, and the Hollywood money
belts had tightened
considerably. Science fiction and fantasy,
always considered a risk,
were now felt to be box-office
poison.
Ironically, five years later in 1975, MGM
decided to produce
LOGAN'S RUN after all, starring Michael
York, with Michael Anderson
directing, but without Pal's involvement
whatsoever. Pal was
extremely disappointed in this turn of
events. In the intervening
years he had continually approached Saul
David, the MGM story editor,
about revising the project, only to have
David appointed producer of
the new version. Instead of Maibaum's
script, a new screenplay by
David Zelag Goodman was written which
changed the concept
considerably and cut some of the best
parts of the novel.
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