After Schwarzenegger and Gerard Lanvin, these actors will be the new heroes of this iconic SF film for 37 years!

After Schwarzenegger and Gerard Lanvin, these actors will be the new heroes of this iconic SF film for 37 years!

This project has been in the works for many years. And it became a little more accurate. Which indicates an imminent shooting.

It’s a remake of Running Man, directed and co-written by Edgar Wright, who revised the story with Michael Bacall writing the screenplay.

We’ve known since last spring: the film will be headlined by none other than one of the main actors of 2024: Glenn Powell, who we saw in Top Gun: Maverick and Everything But You, and recently again in Twisters in the cinema. This summer and Hit Man went live on Canal+ at the start of the September school year.

Glenn Powell

The Hollywood Reporter It was announced today that the actor who will play the big bad guy in the film has also been found! Josh Brolin would definitely be in final negotiations to play the role. Josh Brolin is known for his roles in Dune, No Country for Old Men, Avengers and Inherent Vice.

Katie O’Brian, of Loves Lies Bleeding fame, will also be in the cast. This summer he shared a Twisters poster with Glenn Powell.

A long-term project

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 are you talking about

Signed by Stephen King – and originally published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman – the novel 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 Running Man It was adapted for the big screen Paul Michael Glaser along 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, he plays Francois 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 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, who nevertheless claims that the novel is inspired 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.

But it is the new version of Ben Richards that we will discover in a year, with the actor in high demand from Hollywood. Glenn Powell ! In the United States, the film is already dated November 21, 2025.

Source: Allocine

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