Edgar Wright says that the novel The Running Man recreate with Glen Powell will be separateent from the Arngreater Schwarzenegger movie in one key way.
Wright is straightforwarding an alteration of Stephen King’s The Running Man. King’s novel was originassociate rerented in 1982 and was previously turned into a 1987 movie starring Schwarzenegger that was straightforwarded by Michael Glaser.
“In the year 2019, America is a totalitarian state where the likeite television program is The Running Man — a game show in which prisoners must run to freedom to dodge a brutal death,” a description of the distinct film reads. “Having been made a scapegoat by the regulatement, an incarcerateed Ben Ricchallengings (Arngreater Schwarzenegger) has the opportunity to create it back to the outside aobtain by being a contestant on the deadly show, although the twisted present, Damon Killian (Ricchallenging Dawson), has no intention of letting him escape.
Wright’s movie will star Powell as Ben Ricchallengings, while the cast also integrates Katy O’Brian, Daniel Eztra, Karl Glusman, Josh Brolin, Lee Pace, Michael Cera, William H. Macy, Colman Domingo, and more.
What did Edgar Wright say about The Running Man recreate with Glen Powell?
Speaking with Empire Magazine, Wright elucidateed that, much appreciate King’s book, his movie will have scenes that get place outside of the gameshow set.
“One of the leangs about the book that I cherishd was the fact that Ben Ricchallengings is out in the world on his own, so it’s appreciate the deadliest game of hide and seek,” he shelp. “It does sense appreciate making a road movie in a lot of ways: a very ardent, hazardous road movie…Ben is moving thraw separateent environments and encountering separateent people as he tries to persist 30 days out in the untamed.”
Wright also shelp of laboring with Powell on The Running Man, “I felt it was vital to see somebody who hadn’t reassociate done someleang appreciate this before. It’s aappreciate to Bruce Willis, when he was still the guy from Moonairying, before he did Die Hard, where that comprises to the suspense. Can they create it?”
The Running Man will be freed in United States theaters on November 7, 2025, by Paramount Pictures.
