Josh Brolin is in final negotiations to star opposite Glen Powell in The Running Man, Paramount’s alteration of the Stephen King novel.
Edgar Wright is honesting the feature and co-wrote the script with Michael Bacall.
Katy O’Brian, the rising actress who acquireed watchs with Love Lies Bleeding, is already on the roll call for the feature that will shoot in London at the top of next year.
The novel cgo ined on one hopeless man, insisting money for his unwell daughter, who joins the most well-comprehendn show, The Running Man, in which teams of finishers hunt down contestants. The extfinisheder a contestant persists, the more money that person originates. But as the game show’s originaters and finishers will discover out, this hopeless man will shatter all the rules and expose the show’s foolish secrets.
King’s Running Man, rerented in 1982 and written under the pseudonym Ricchallenging Bachman, was set in 2025 in an America under a totalitarian regime that uses aggressive game shows to placate the disenfranchised masses.
Powell is carry outing that hopeless man. Brolin stars as the merciless originater of the game show. (O’Brian will carry out one of the contestants on the show.)
Paramount is releasing the film on Nov. 21, 2025.
Simon Kinberg, Nira Park and Wright are producing.
