Last Updated on October 21, 2024 by Angel Melanson
Just a day after Josh Brolin revealed he’s joining the cast of Glen Powell’s upcoming The Running Man reboot, another major star has joined the fray. It looks like Powell and director Edgar Wright are assembling quite the superstar team to bring the Stephen King story to life, as The Hollywood Reporter writes that Foundation star Lee Pace has now joined as the film’s antagonist.
Since we don’t know how faithfully the upcoming reboot will adapt King’s original novel, we don’t know exactly what kind of villain Pace will be, but we do know he’ll be paired with Brolin, putting two MCU veterans up against the Top Gun: Maverick star. He joins a star-studded cast that also includes Love Lies Bleeding star Katy O’Brian and Karl Glusman, with Wright directing a script he co-wrote with Michael Bacall, featuring Powell as desperate father Ben Richards.
It’ll be interesting to see just how Wright tackles the much-lauded dystopian story, given that the last adaptation, which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and was directed by Paul Michael Glaser, only loosely adapted the concept of the novel, where Richards must compete in a deadly game in order to win the money he needs to keep his daughter alive. While it kept the deadly reality show concept, Glaser’s film turned the contestants into prisoners, but it seems like a decent guess that Pace and Brolin will be in charge of whatever game Powell’s character finds himself in.
Originally published by King under his infamous Richard Bachman pseudonym in 1982, The Running Man has become one of his most celebrated novels, and arguably his most successful outside of his strictly horror titles. It’s one of many King films in the works, with a reboot of Salem’s Lot having just hit Max, and an adaptation of The Life of Chuck (originally published in If It Bleeds) heading our way next year.
The Running Man is set to hit theaters on November 21, 2025.
