Johnny Jewel is Working on Music for the Logan’s Run Remake

Ever since he watched Drive, our resident film critic Erik Henriksen sits at his desk and loudly exclaims “ZOOM! ZOOM! ZOOM!” while shopping online for a new race car bed. I guess he liked it.

And while the movie does look great, so does its soundtrack, which features a slew of Italo disco-inspired numbers from College (with Electric Youth), Kavinsky & Lovefoxxx, and a pair of songs from the various projects (The Chromatics, Desire) of Montreal/Portlandler Johnny Jewel.

So it’s no coincidence that Jewel has been slated to score the remake of Logan’s Run, a forthcoming project from Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn and its ultrafuckable leading man, Ryan Gosling.

I actually will say that I probably will almost never write for a movie. It has to be something really, really good. Nick talked to me a little bit about Logan’s Run. He mentioned it and was just trying to feel out if I was interested, and I was telling him about how on my 30th birthday, I had a party and I had a blinking stone in my hand, because I was super into that movie and obsessed with the idea of turning 30 or whatever. So that’s something I’ve been doing. So in 2013, they’re doing a script for it. They’re working on a screenplay next year, after they do Only God Forgives.[But] I’m not out there trying to apply for jobs or work for movies. It’s hard, and I mean, if you have taste, it’s really hard. That’s something you take seriously.

I haven’t actually seen the original Logan’s Run, but I’m pretty sure it’s a prequel to Cool Runnings, so there will be lots of steel drums, right? Right??

End Hits: Okay, here’s my pitch: You dump that wimp Gosling, hire Hulk Hogan and his 24-inch pythons, and call it Hogan’s Run. It’ll be bigger than Mr. Nanny.