Paramount's upcoming The Running Man reboot, set to release theatrically on November 7, with director Edgar Wright teasing more about his take on the Stephen King novel in the new issue of Empire Magazine.
Based on King's 1982 novel of the same name, The Running Man (which Wright directs from a script co-written with Michael Bacall) sees Glen Powell (Hit Man, Twisters) star as protagonist Ben Richards, a participant in a dystopian reality television show in which contestants win money by evading a team of hitmen sent to kill them.
Wright's take is the first since the 1987 movie from Paul Michael Glazer, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and, according to the new interview with Empire Magazine, looks like it could be more faithful to the source material than Glazer's take was.
Speaking with Empire, Wright went further into detail on what drew him to the story of Richards, and what we can expect from his take on the source material:
One of the things about the book that I loved was the fact that Ben Richards is out in the world on his own, so it’s like the deadliest game of hide and seek […] It does feel like making a road movie in a lot of ways: a very intense, dangerous road movie […] Ben is moving through different environments and meeting different people as he tries to survive 30 days out in the wild.”
Starring alongside Powell in The Running Man is a stacked cast that includes Michael Cera, Karl Glusman, Josh Brolin, Colman Domingo, Katy O’Brian, Daniel Ezra and Lee Pace.
Read the full interview with Wright in the upcoming issue of Empire Magazine. For more 2025 horror news, read our rundown of this year's most anticipated releases.
