{"id":173418,"date":"2025-11-10T16:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/173418\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T16:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:50:09","slug":"edgar-wrights-the-running-man-remake-unveils-its-final-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/173418\/","title":{"rendered":"Edgar Wright’s The Running Man remake unveils its final trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four years have gone by since it was announced that\u00a0Edgar Wright<\/a>\u00a0was coming on board to direct a new take on the novel\u00a0The Running Man, which was written by\u00a0Stephen King<\/a>\u00a0under his Richard Bachman pen name.\u00a0The Running Man\u00a0was, of course, previously turned into a film back in 1987 that starred Arnold Schwarzenegger\u00a0and had little to do with the source material. Last year, Wright\u2019s film entered production with Glen Powell of\u00a0Top Gun: Maverick,\u00a0Hit Man<\/a>, and\u00a0Twisters\u00a0in the lead role. Filming wrapped in the early months of this year, with the movie heading toward a\u00a0November 14<\/strong>th theatrical release \u2013 and with that date dangerously close, the final trailer has dropped online! You can watch it in the embed above.<\/p>\n

King\u2019s novel has the following description:\u00a0It was the ultimate death game in a nightmare future America. The year is 2025 and reality TV has grown to the point where people are willing to wager their lives for a chance at a billion-dollar jackpot. Ben Richards is desperate \u2013 he needs money to treat his daughter\u2019s illness. His last chance is entering a game show called\u00a0The Running Man\u00a0where the goal is to avoid capture by Hunters who are employed to kill him. Surviving this month-long chase is another issue when everyone else on the planet is watching \u2013 and willing to turn him in for the reward.\u00a0Here\u2019s the synopsis for the new film adaptation:\u00a0In a near-future society,\u00a0The Running Man\u00a0is the top-rated show on television\u2014a deadly competition where contestants, known as Runners, must survive 30 days while being hunted by professional assassins, with every move broadcast to a bloodthirsty public and each day bringing a greater cash reward. Desperate to save his sick daughter, working-class Ben Richards (Glen Powell) is convinced by the show\u2019s charming but ruthless producer, Dan Killian (Josh Brolin), to enter the game as a last resort. But Ben\u2019s defiance, instincts, and grit turn him into an unexpected fan favorite\u2014and a threat to the entire system. As ratings skyrocket, so does the danger, and Ben must outwit not just the Hunters, but a nation addicted to watching him fall.<\/p>\n

During an interview on the\u00a0Happy Sad Confused\u00a0podcast a while back, Wright said he was drawn to\u00a0The Running Man\u00a0because,\u00a0\u201cI like the film but I like the book more, and they didn\u2019t really adapt the book. Even as a teenager when I saw the Schwarzenegger film I was like, \u2018Oh, this isn\u2019t like the book at all!\u2019 And I think, \u2018Nobody\u2019s [done] that book.\u2019 So when that came up, I was thinking, and Simon Kinberg says, \u2018Do you have any interest in\u00a0The Running Man?\u2019 I said, \u2018You know what? I\u2019ve often thought that that book is something crying out to be adapted.\u2019 Now, that doesn\u2019t mean that it\u2019s easy! [Laughs] But it\u2019s something that we are working on, yes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wright is directing\u00a0The Running Man\u00a0from a script he co-wrote with Michael Bacall and is producing the film with Nira Park and Simon Kinberg. Powell is joined in the cast by Katy O\u2019Brian (who had a breakthrough role in\u00a0Love Lies Bleeding<\/a>\u00a0and shared the screen with Powell in\u00a0Twisters) as a contestant; Daniel Ezra, who played the character Spencer James on 106 episodes of the CW series\u00a0All American;\u00a0Josh Brolin<\/a>\u00a0(Outer Range), playing a TV executive who is the main villain; Lee Pace (Halt and Catch Fire)\u00a0as a ruthless hunter; Michael Cera (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) as a \u201cna\u00efve rebel who tries to help the desperate man\u201d; Emilia Jones (CODA) as a \u201cprivileged woman blind to the oppression of the government\u201c; David Zayas (Dexter) as a character named Richard Manuel; Colman Domingo (Fear the Walking Dead) as the host of\u00a0The Running Man, a violent reality show promising an outrageous cash prize; 6-foot-8-inch actor and former MMA fighter Chi Lewis-Parry (28 Years Later) as a runner; and Jayme Lawson (Sinners) and William H. Macy of\u00a0Fargo\u00a0and\u00a0Boogie Nights\u00a0in unspecified roles.<\/p>\n

Are you looking forward to seeing what Edgar Wright has done with the remake of\u00a0The Running Man? Take a look at the final trailer, then let us know by leaving a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four years have gone by since it was announced that\u00a0Edgar Wright\u00a0was coming on board to direct a new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[74442,74443,72964,18,117,98912,11664,19,17,327,72965],"class_list":{"0":"post-173418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-aith","9":"tag-arrow-in-the-head","10":"tag-edgar-wright","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-film-trailer","14":"tag-glen-powell","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-movies","18":"tag-the-running-man"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115526436367866851","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}