It’s been over three years since we found out that Edgar Wright was directing another adaptation of Richard Bachman/Stephen King’s The Running Man. Today at the Paramount Pictures panel at CinemaCon (via The Hollywood Reporter), however, we found out not only that the movie is still happening, but that Glen Powell has signed on to star in the lead role, the part that Arnold Schwarzenegger took on in the 1987 adaptation.
The Running Man, which King wrote in 1985 under his Bachman pen name, takes place in a future dystopia (which, by the way, was the year 2025), where the U.S. government runs a gladiatorial game show where a group of killers try to hunt down and kill a contestant. The longer one lives, the more money one makes. One man, the titular running man, enters the game to try to raise money for his sick daughter and manages to rip the game apart from the inside.
Powell will play that man. The actor is currently set to star in the upcoming tornado sequel Twisters (pictured above) and also had roles in Top Gun: Maverick, Hidden Figures and a recurring part in Scream Queens.
No news yet on when this version of The Running Man will make its way to theaters.
