{"id":246116,"date":"2025-11-05T22:28:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T22:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/246116\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T22:28:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T22:28:30","slug":"the-running-man-has-been-given-an-r-rating-by-the-mpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/246116\/","title":{"rendered":"The Running Man has been given an R rating by the MPA"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re adapting a novel from Stephen King, which has already been an action movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger, all previous source material seems to be pointing to an edgy, action thrill ride that begs you not to pull any punches. Oh, and your previous movies include Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. Edgar Wright seems to be right at home with his upcoming adaptation of The Running Man, as the MPA<\/a> has just given the movie an R-rated stamp due to strong violence, some gore, and language.<\/p>\n

The movie was given a thumbs-up by the author himself as Stephen King previously posted on social media about his reaction to Edgar Wright\u2019s re-adaptation of\u00a0The Running Man. King teased his\u00a0positive reception<\/a>, saying,\u00a0\u201cNew trailer: RUNNING MAN. BTW: I\u2019ve seen it and it\u2019s fantastic. DIE HARD for our time. A bipartisan thrill ride.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

With movies like Sinners, Nobody 2, Ballerina, Novocaine, A Working Man and The Accountant 2 released this past year, is the R-rated action movie making a comeback? Granted, an R-rating doesn\u2019t automatically equal a good movie, but sometimes it can feel extra authentic with its raw nature. Our Chris Bumbray recently pointed out how he felt Predator: Badlands might\u2019ve aimed to be more audience-friendly, as said in his review<\/a>, \u201cThis was clearly conceived as a movie for a younger audience, with them even giving Dek and Thia a cute sidekick animal they name Bud to tag along. It\u2019s certainly a well-done PG-13, but it\u2019s definitely not a movie targeted at the older\u00a0Predator\u00a0audience (unlike\u00a0Prey, which was still pretty gnarly).\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\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

The Running Man\u00a0hits theaters on\u00a0November 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019re adapting a novel from Stephen King, which has already been an action movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[944,35784,96,59,103021,103022,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-246116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-action","tag-edgar-wright","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-mpaa","tag-the-running-man-2025","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}