Edgar Wright To Direct Running Man Reimagining, Glen Powell To Star

Edgar Wright is taking a jump into the world of Stephen King, directing a reimagining of The Running Man with Glen Powell starring. Paramount Pictures announced at CinemaCon (per Deadline) that the Shaun of the Dead and Last Night in Soho director will direct and produce a new take on the Stephen King novella. Powell (Top Gun Maverick, Anyone But You) will star in the new film, which Wright will produce with Nira Park and Simon Kinberg. Michael Bacall wrote the script.

The original novella was published by King under his Richard Bachman pen name in 1982 and was loosely adapted to the big screen in 1987 for a Paul Michael Glaser-directed film that starred Arnold Schwarzenegger, María Conchita Alonso, Richard Dawson, Jesse Ventura and more.

The novella is set in a dystopian America in 2025 and follows Ben Richards, a man who participates in in a violent game show to win enough money to revive his ill daughter.