How will Edgar Wright’s running Man be different from the film with Schwarzenegger?
“It looks like a road movie, in many ways.”
Glen Powell will take the place ofArnold Schwarzenegger in the new adaptation of The Running Manadaptation of the novel of Stephen King Posted in 1982. Almost 40 years after Michael Glaser’s version, produced in 1987, the filmmaker Edgar Wright did not sign a remake of the classic 80’s, but an adaptation more faithful to the original novel.
The basic principle remains the same: register for the Tété emission Running Manescape the deadly “hunters”, to make money! But as in the novel, Wright’s film will not be limited to a game board:
“”One of the things I loved in the book is the fact that Ben Richards is alone in the world. It is, so to speak, the most deadly hide-and-seeking game that is“He says in Empire.
Glen Powellseducer of Rom’Com in Anyone but you and cowboy of Twistersturns into Action Hero intense, in the shoes of Ben Richards: “I found it important to see someone who had not yet made this kind of role. It’s a bit like Bruce Willis, when he was still the actor of the series Lune light before playing in Die Hard. It adds a little unpredictability: will it do it?“smiles Edgar Wright.
The Running Man will be released in theaters on November 5, 2025 in France, distributed by Paramount Pictures.
