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A remake of the 1976 sci-fi classic "Logan's Run" is still an absolute go, super-producer Joel Silver told MTV News, teasing that the story is "close to being great."

"The [original] is such a creaky old seventies movie and kind of silly," he said. "The book [meanwhile] is younger and cooler. We've gone back to that source material."

Meaning "younger and cooler" aren't just buzzwords, but quite literally true of Silver's approach. Like the original novel on which the first movie was based, Logan is part of a society whose citizens voluntarily euthanize themselves before they reach old age. But unlike the first movie – where death occurred at 30 – all the citizens in Silver's film die "at 21," he said. Read more...