"Wright's new film is a reboot of the 1987 movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's based largely on a Stephen King novel from 1982 that imagines a dystopian version of 2025, the year we're in now. Think mass surveillance, rampant inequality, food shortages and a state-controlled media propaganda apparatus. The '80s version of the movie deviated from King's novel, but Edgar Wright sticks closely to it."
"You could do a sci-fi action film where the line between the reality and the fiction part is, like, a bleeding edge at this point. We could set the movie not in a distant future, but in a different tomorrow. I think what's hopefully powerful about the movie is it takes place in a reality that's not so far away from where we are now. And there's no technology that exists in the movie that doesn't exist in some form now."
The Running Man, directed and co-written by Edgar Wright and starring Glen Powell, reboots the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger film and adapts Stephen King's 1982 novel. The plot centers on a televised survival game in which contestants must survive 30 days while the entire nation hunts them. The setting imagines 2025 as a dystopia marked by mass surveillance, rampant inequality, food shortages, and state-controlled media propaganda. Edgar Wright adheres closely to King's novel and emphasizes technological parallels to the present by using existing surveillance and media mechanisms. The film combines entertainment, fear, and social warning within a near-future action thriller.
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