{"id":264286,"date":"2025-11-15T12:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T12:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/264286\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T12:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T12:44:08","slug":"edgar-wright-explains-that-creative-running-man-cameo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/264286\/","title":{"rendered":"Edgar Wright Explains That Creative Running Man Cameo"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article contains slight spoilers for The Running Man.<\/p>\n

The 1987 movie The Running Man<\/a> may be a delightfully weird bit of Arnold Schwarzenegger<\/a> cheese, but it doesn\u2019t have much to do with the 1982 novel that Stephen King<\/a> published under the pen name Richard Bachman. For his 2025 adaptation, Edgar Wright<\/a> has tried to stick closer to the source material, but he couldn\u2019t resist winking to his predecessor.<\/p>\n

Early in the new movie, Bobby T (Colman Domingo), the charismatic host of the television show The Running Man, tells protagonist Ben Richards (Glen Powell<\/a>) and his fellow contestants Laughlin (Katy O\u2019Brian) and Jansky (Martin Herlihy) about the huge cash rewards they win for each day they stay alive. To illustrate the point, one of the women on stage flashes a handful of highly-coveted new dollars, each emblazoned with Arnold\u2019s image.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI thought it was a nice little nod,\u201d Wright admitted to The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, in which he also recalled his admiration to the 1987 movie. \u201c[Co-writer] Michael Bacall had written the idea about a new currency, \u2018new dollars,\u2019 into the script.\u201d While Wright intended to cameo to be a nod to the previous version of The Running Man, he also notes that the fact that Arnold is portraying a president references a different beloved movie from the era. \u201cIt\u2019s a shared joke with the Demolition Man universe,\u201d he explained; \u201cIn Demolition Man<\/a>, they mention President Schwarzenegger, so it\u2019s my little shout out to both Arnie and Daniel Waters [screenwriter of Demolition Man].\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This article contains slight spoilers for The Running Man. The 1987 movie The Running Man may be a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-264286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264286","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=264286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}