{"id":132420,"date":"2025-11-10T16:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/132420\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T16:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:30:08","slug":"edgar-wrights-the-running-man-remake-unveils-its-final-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/132420\/","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 14th 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":132421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[22646,22647,51052,93,22649,11252,61,60,270,51053],"class_list":["post-132420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-aith","tag-arrow-in-the-head","tag-edgar-wright","tag-entertainment","tag-film-trailer","tag-glen-powell","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-the-running-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}