William F. Nolan, co-author of the source novel for the 1976 film Logan's Run, hopes that if a remake ever comes to pass, one particular key aspect will be left unchanged.
"I am not a fan of the idea that Logan should be female. Mainly because Logan's story is his story," Nolan said to The Hollywood Reporter. "If there is another story, then that could be in a TV episode or something, but it would not be Logan's story. That would be a different character. Just changing to a woman to be fashionable doesn't work, and George [Clayton Johnson, co-author] told me he felt the same."
Set in 2274, Logan's Run takes place in a high-tech dystopia 300 years in the future in which the balance is kept by ritual execution of people who reach the age of 30, disguised as a rapturous experience in the "Carousel." Michael York and Jessica Agutter star as Logan and Jessica, two people on the run from their fate. Farrah Fawcett appears in one of her earliest film roles.
The reboot has been caught in development hell for more than a decade, with Ryan Gosling attached to star back in 2011, and various writers and directors slated to helm the project. One attempt in 2016 suggested Logan's Run could have a female lead. Logan's Run had a short-lived TV version in 1977. George Pérez drew the first five issues of a 1977 Marvel Comics adaptation that continued the story in the last two issues.
Nolan says he does wish a film reboot would set the "Last Day" at 21, as it was in the novel he co-wrote with George Clayton Johnson.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter