Glen Powell promised to be the hardest-working person on his movie. The director says he put all his previous stars to shame.

"Wright was a teen when he first read the original 1982 dystopian novel of the same name, which Stephen King wrote under the pen name Richard Bachman. Then he saw the 1987 movie adaptation in theaters. "It was probably one of the first times that I was aware that a film adaptation could be drastically different from the novel," said Wright, 51. "So even though I enjoyed the film, I was like, 'Huh, they didn't do the book!'""

"Wright strikes a careful balance between revering and expanding upon the original film. There are several callbacks to the 1987 movie: a demonic showrunner (Josh Brolin) who profits off the audience's thirst for violence, and a futuristic world that's in shambles. But Wright expands the playing field from a sealed-off course to a countrywide scramble for survival, and adds stylized f"

Edgar Wright agreed to reboot The Running Man after a 2017 tweet about remaking it prompted producer Simon Kinberg to email him in 2021. Wright first encountered the story as a teen through Stephen King's 1982 novel and later saw the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger film, noting the adaptation differed from the book. Glen Powell will play Ben Richards, an everyman who enters a deadly game show to lift his family from poverty. Contestants can win $1 billion by surviving 30 days while hunted by professional assassins. Wright balances reverence with expansion, keeping callbacks like a demonic showrunner (Josh Brolin) and broadening the setting to a countrywide scramble for survival.

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