Edgar Wright’s Glen Powell-Starring Running Man Is Indeed Coming in 2025

When Edgar Wright’s The Running Man named Glen Powell (Twisters) arsenic its prima earlier this year, it seemed astir excessively overmuch to anticipation that the movie would get successful 2025: the aforesaid twelvemonth Stephen King (writing nether his Richard Bachman pseudonym) acceptable his dystopian tale. Though Wright’s engagement successful this mentation was announced successful 2021, with the engaged Powell joining truthful recently, it hardly seemed imaginable the stars would align to marque that note-perfect merchandise date. But we learned today, it will.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Paramount Pictures has acceptable The Running Man‘s merchandise day arsenic November 21, 2025. The commercialized besides revealed that Katy O’Brien (Love Lies Bleeding, The Mandalorian) has joined the cast.

When Wright archetypal came aboard the film, it was said this task would hew person to King’s archetypal communicative than the Arnold Schwarzenegger-starring adaption that deed screens successful 1987. In February 2021, Deadline reported “the Baby Driver writer-director [Wright] volition co-write the communicative with Michael Bacall, and they volition beryllium overmuch much faithful to King’s bestselling novel. Bacall volition constitute the script.”

In June of this year, not agelong aft he’d joined the cast, Powell elaborated connected that detail. Speaking to USA Today, helium explained that he’s agelong been a Wright fan. “What’s been truly unthinkable is his instrumentality connected [King’s story]. It’s precise overmuch not the archetypal Schwarzenegger flick, it’s overmuch much grounded successful the Stephen King version.”

Despite having archetypal deed bookshelves successful 1982, The Running Man inactive feels eerily timely; it’s astir a antheral who reluctantly signs onto a world amusement tally by the authorities and televised to an anxious audience, hoping to gain capable wealth to get medicine for his ailing daughter. Oh, and besides not get mowed down by the assassins who are chasing aft him, to the delight of each the fans watching. It’s Squid Game meets world TV competitions—THR notes that O’Brien volition play a chap contestant—blended with fears astir the rising costs of wellness attraction and callous politicians for bully measure. And, it’s worthy mentioning 1 much time, it takes spot successful 2025.

Paramount’s different merchandise day updates contiguous included the Liam Neeson-starring Naked Gun remake, which volition beryllium retired August 1, 2025 (a displacement of conscionable a fewer weeks from its July 18, 2025 archetypal date); Chris Miller’s as-yet untitled animated Smurfs philharmonic starring Rihanna volition snag that July 18 day instead. Also of enactment to genre fans: Vicious, a fearfulness movie starring Dakota Fanning, volition present get February 25, 2025, respective months earlier than its antecedently announced late-summer arrival.

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