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This weekend sees the return of the annual New York Comic Con and today Paramount Pictures held a special panel for their upcoming new interpretation of The Running Man which hails from director Edgar Wright and starring Glen Powell (Top Gun: Maverick, Twisters). This newest vision of Stephen King’s classic take on The Most Dangerous Game looks to reflect more directly from the source material while at the same time paying homage to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s classic 80’s film. Wright also looks to put a little of his own vision into this film and judging from the initial trailer, this one looks like a kinetically paced and violent good time.
Wright, Powell and co-star Lee Pace (Guardians of the Galaxy) were on hand to help pump up excitement for the new film and they offered a lot of new insight on what fans can expect. Unfortunately, all the exclusive new footage that was shown was only available to those in attendance of course but you can still check out what the director and stars had to say at day 2 of NYCC during the full panel below!
Two new posters have also been issued for the movie, and I must say that it injects a certain amount of excitement to see some awesomely rad and retro style posters that definitely excel in terms of what we have been getting as of late with movie key art. Hopefully this is a trend that makes a comeback because we have definitely been getting some poor and uninspired promo art in recent years. Check out both versions below!
Starring along with Powell and Pace is a stellar and stacked cast including Josh Brolin (The Goonies, Sicario), Michael Cera (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World), Colman Domingo (Fear the Walking Dead), Katy O’Brian (Twisters), and William H. Macy (Fargo).
The official synopsis for The Running Man reads: A man joins a game show where contestants, allowed to go anywhere in the world, are pursued by “hunters” hired to kill them.
While Arnie’s version was straight up 80’s action excess with all the action taking place in one location, Wright’s movie follows King’s story a little more faithfully as Powell is chased throughout the world with a one-month marathon to stay alive. This will certainly broaden the scope and scale of the story while hopefully delivering some killer action set pieces at the same time. Powell really looks to be having fun here and channels a lot of swagger and broad bravado in his performance and I think this film will finally deliver Powell as a full-fledged leading man in action cinema.
The Running Man runs into theaters on November 14!!!!
