According to Variety , Paramount Pictures has (finally) greenlit Edgar Wright’s Running Man remake, reimagining the story with Michael Bacall writing the screenplay.
And it’s official, we’ll find a rising star at the top of the bill: Glenn Powell, seen in Top Gun: Maverick and Everything But You. His casting was announced by Paramount Pictures at CinemaCon on Thursday, April 11.
Glenn Powell
Several years have passed since thenEdgar Wright is working on this remake of Paul Michael Glazer’s 1987 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. remind you Edgar Wright Known for films such as Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), Scott Pilgrim (2010), The Last Pub Before the End of the World (2013), Baby Driver (2017) and most recently Last Night in Soho (2021).
In 2021, Deadline reported that the filmmaker was attached to direct the remake, with Simon Kinberg serving as co-producer. The latter introduced more details about the project.
“ One of my favorite directors of all time and one of my favorite people, just a super amazing guy. Obviously a movie buff. We are actively working on it. He is actively working on the script with Michael Bacal. And our hope would be that this will be a movie that, again, all fingers crossed and luck and everything else will go its way that Edgar could make next year.“
What is it about?
Signed by Stephen King – and originally published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman – the novel A running man It was born in 1982. Set in the year 2025, the story follows a man named Ben Richards who competes in a deadly game show called The Running Man, in which he is declared an enemy of the state and is being hunted by killer assassins.
That’s why it was in 1987 A running man It was adapted for the big screen Paul Michael Glaser with Arnold Schwarzenegger Starring Ben Richards.

“The Running Man” (1987)
And Gerard Lanvin in it all?
FYI, Gerard Lanvin also played Ben Richards – sort of. The Price of Jeopardy, Yves Boiss’s 1983 film, stars François Jacquemart, a young unemployed man who agrees to participate in a deadly game show for a substantial sum of money.
If the film script is based on a story by Robert Shackley, The price of danger Since 1958, the story has been eerily similar to it A running man which came out a few years after Boise’s film. Thus, in the 1990s, a complaint was filed against the film Paul Michael Glaser on plagiarism. The latter, which nevertheless claims to be inspired by the novel Stephen King Released in 1982, lost the trial at first instance before winning on appeal, then losing again at the Court of Cassation.
In any case, the plaintiffs will find it difficult to obtain the requested compensation of more than one million francs, or more than 150,000 euros.
Glenn Powell, on the road to fame
But now it’s a new version of Ben Richards that we’re about to discover. waiting to see Glenn Powell In the role, he continues his little journey in Hollywood. Everything but you It recently created a surprise worldwide gross of more than $214.8 million (against a “only” budget of $25 million), making it the highest-grossing romantic comedy in eight years.
Very popular, the actress has already been announced in the casting of several projects, including Top Gun 3, the most dangerous game with Kathy Silberman against Zoey Deutch and Huntington’s John Patton Ford. We’ll also find him in Richard Linklater’s Hit Man, which hits Netflix in June in the US, as well as Twisters, the sequel to the 1996 film, which hits our screens on July 17, 2024.
Watch the Twisters trailer below:
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