Josh Brolin is ready to star alongside Glen Powell in Edgar Wright’s movie adaptation of Stephen King’s The Running Man. Brolin will tackle the position of the primary villain within the story.
The report says that Brolin “will play the antagonist behind the violent actuality present.”
The Working Man is a dystopian story set in a future society the place the federal government controls all the things, the story follows Ben Richards, a determined and impoverished man who participates in a lethal sport present referred to as “The Working Man” to win cash for his household.
The sport includes Richards being hunted by skilled killers whereas making an attempt to evade seize for a month. As he navigates by a decaying and harmful city panorama, Richards turns into an emblem of resistance towards the oppressive authorities.
Powell previously talked concerning the undertaking, saying: “I have been an Edgar Wright fan my complete life. And speaking to him about Working Man, what’s been actually unbelievable is his tackle it. It’s totally a lot not the unique Schwarzenegger flick, it is far more grounded within the Stephen King (novella) model.
“Whereas I like the unique 1987 movie, it is vitally totally different from the story that King wrote, so I’m really very enthusiastic about the truth that Wright’s movie will probably be a lot nearer to the supply materials.”
Wright previously discussed his imaginative and prescient for the movie and the way he desires it to be a real adaptation of the e-book, saying: “I believe at the present time as effectively is like by way of like, you recognize I believe when remakes are performed effectively is that if there’s one thing else so as to add or there is a totally different tackle it.”
He continued: “So I believe the issue is usually not too long ago like remakes are simply sort of facsimiles of the unique movie and I do not actually get that enthusiastic about loads of them as a result of they really feel like form of karaoke variations of the originals.”
Wright added: “Clearly again in just like the ’70s and ’80s you had ones the place they had been additive like Philip Kauffman’s Invasion of the Physique Snatchers or John Carpenter’s The Factor or David Cronenberg’s The Fly; it is taking one thing and doing one thing attention-grabbing with it.’“
He goes on to say: “When it comes to like issues that I have been (doing), like you recognize, The Working Man which is one thing that’s in lively growth. Why is that attention-grabbing to me? I just like the movie however I just like the e-book extra and so they did not actually adapt the e-book.”
He mentioned: “Whilst a youngster after I noticed the Schwarzenegger movie I used to be like, ‘Oh this is not just like the e-book in any respect,’ and I believe no person’s tailored that e-book.
“So when that got here up I used to be considering you recognize and Simon Kinberg says ‘Do you’ve got any curiosity in The Working Man?’ I mentioned, ‘You already know what I’ve typically thought that that e-book is is one thing like crying out to be tailored.’ Now that does not imply that it is easy however like it’s one thing that we’re engaged on, sure, I will say that a lot.”
The movie, which additionally has solid Karl Glusman, Katy O’Brian and Daniel Ezra, has a November 21, 2025 launch date. Wright can also be co-writing the script with Michael Bacall, and can produce along with his producing accomplice Nira Park and Simon Kinberg. George Linder will government produce.
Supply: Deadline
