Since the release of the first BioShock game in 2007, the series has been praised for its high concept storytelling. Perhaps then it’s only appropriate that the games creator Ken Levine, having completed BioShock Infinite earlier this year, is now looking to make his name in Hollywood.

What may surprise you, however, is how he is making his splash. Instead of the long dormant BioShock film, last left in development purgatory after director Gore Verbinski left the project, Levine will be writing the latest screenplay for the long in development remake of Logan’s Run.

Logan’s Run, a 1967 book by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson and a later cult-classic film from 1976, features a society where people are executed at the age of 30 (21 in the novel), and those who try to escape this fate are called “runners”. Understandably, in this post Hunger Games society, a young adult survival film is clearly going to catch the eye of the studios, and I can see a new Logan’s Run fitting in nicely at the multiplexes.

Warner Bros is developing the remake, which has long been attached to director Bryan Singer (X-Men). This would not be Levine’s first screenplay, as he wrote plays and film scripts before joining the video game industry, but this certainly will be his most high profile. As with all films in development, Levine’s involvement is subject to change, but I’d love to see his take.

Source: Deadline