Netflix has landed the rights to Stephen King’s classic novel ‘The Running Man’, with Edgar Wright directing and Josh Brolin starring as the ruthless producer of a deadly game show. ‘The Running Man’ follows a desperate man who joins a popular game show where contestants are hunted down by killers for entertainment. The longer they survive, the more money they win.
Edgar Wright is directing the feature and co-wrote the script with Michael Bacall. Production is due to shoot in London at the top of next year., published in 1982 and written under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, was set in 2025 in an America under a totalitarian regime that uses violent game shows to placate the disenfranchised masses.
The novel centered on one desperate man, needing money for his sick daughter, who joins the most popular show, , in which teams of killers hunt down contestants. The longer a contestant survives, the more money that person makes. But as the game show’s producers and killers will find out, this desperate man will break all the rules and expose the show’s dark secrets.
Powell is playing that desperate man. Brolin stars as the ruthless producer of the game show, while O’Brian will play one of the contestants on the show. Pace is essentially the heavy of the movie, playing the brutal chief hunter for the network airing the game shows and tasked by the producer with tracking down Powell’s character.GuardiansTHR NewslettersWEEKLY NEWSLETTER. We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services. // This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the GoogleThe Hollywood Reporter is a part of Penske Media Corporation. © 2024 The Hollywood Reporter, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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