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Edgar Wright to Direct Adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘The Running Man’ For Paramount
Edgar Wright has been tapped to direct “The Running Man” for Paramount Pictures, an adaptation of Stephen King’s dystopian horror novel.
“The Running Man,” published in 1982, was originally written under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. The story takes place in the United States in the year 2025, which sees the economy in ruins and violence dramatically escalating. In 1987, the book was loosely adapted into a film that featured Arnold Schwarzenegger. The upcoming version is expected to stay more faithful to the source material.
Michael Bacall penned the script from a story he co-wrote with Wright. Simon Kinberg (“X-Men,” “Dark Phoenix”) and Audrey Chon will produce the film for Genre Films, as will Nira Park for Wright’s company Complete Fiction.
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Edgar Wright has been tapped to direct “The Running Man” for Paramount Pictures, an adaptation of Stephen King’s dystopian horror novel.
“The Running Man,” published in 1982, was originally written under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. The story takes place in the United States in the year 2025, which sees the economy in ruins and violence dramatically escalating. In 1987, the book was loosely adapted into a film that featured Arnold Schwarzenegger. The upcoming version is expected to stay more faithful to the source material.
Michael Bacall penned the script from a story he co-wrote with Wright. Simon Kinberg (“X-Men,” “Dark Phoenix”) and Audrey Chon will produce the film for Genre Films, as will Nira Park for Wright’s company Complete Fiction.
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Michael Bacall will write the new take which is expected to be much more faithful to King’s original work. Producers on the project include Simon Kinberg, Nira Park and Audrey Chon.
“We are working on it actively. He [Wright] is actively working on the script with Michael Bacall. Our hope would be that it is a movie that, again, all fingers crossed and luck and everything else go our way, that Edgar could maybe direct next year.
What’s cool is that Edgar, completely separately, before myself and Paramount started down the journey of figuring out how to get the remake rights, which was complicated, he had tweeted, just on his own – and I follow him obviously on every possible platform – he had tweeted that if there was one movie he would remake ever, it was Running Man.”
Glen Powell was discussing going back to the University of Texas at Austin to finish his degree when he revealed that The Running Man remake will start filming this fall. Powell mentioned that The Running Man's director, Wright, "has been very nice about letting [him] finish his degree in the middle of his massive movie." Read his full comments below:
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“Twisters” star Glen Powell has another franchise on his hands as a new adaptation of Stephen King’s “The Running Man” recently got the green light at Paramount Pictures and will start production in November, TheWrap has exclusively learned.
“Baby Driver” filmmaker Edgar Wright is attached to direct and co-write the story with his “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” collaborator Michael Bacall. Bacall wrote the script.
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Katy O’Brian is joining Glen Powell, playing one of the contestants.
The film, which also has cast Karl Glusman, Katy O’Brian and Daniel Ezra, has a November 21, 2025 release date.
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Glenn Powell is seen on set for The Running Man for the first time as Edgar Wright's remake takes over Battersea Power Station
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David Zayas (Dexter, Oz) has joined the cast of The Running Man. He portrays Richard Manuel, sources close to production tell Deadline.
He joins the previously announced cast of Glen Powell, Josh Brolin, Katy O’Brian, Daniel Ezra, Lee Pace, Michael Cera, Emilia Jones, Jayme Lawson and William H. Macy