Edgar Wright’s The Running Man Gets Michael Cera In On the Action

Throughout the year, Paramount’s upcoming Running Man reboot from Edgar Wright has been picking up stars. First it was Glen Powell and Katy O’Brian arsenic the leads, past it expanded to see Josh Brolin and Lee Pace arsenic the main villains. Now you tin adhd different brace of actors to its supporting cast, including an aged slacker person of Wright’s.

Per the Hollywood Reporter, Michael Cera (Scott Pilgrim) and Emilia Jones (Locke & Key) are joining the formed of the upcoming film. Cera’s said to beryllium playing an unnamed “naïve rebel” trying his champion to assistance Powell’s Ben Richards, portion Jones volition represent a privileged pistillate said to beryllium “blind to the oppression of the government” Richards is warring against. Filming volition instrumentality spot successful London astatine the commencement of 2025 earlier its merchandise aboriginal successful the year.

Based connected Stephen King’s 1982 sci-fi novel, The Running Man is acceptable successful a dystopian 2025 wherever a totalitarian authorities has ruled implicit America and uses a convulsive crippled amusement to support citizens happy. The titular amusement sees ruthless killers hunt down contestants, and Richards signs up to get wealth for his sick daughter. Contestants get much wealth the longer they survive, and arsenic helium stays alive, helium besides draws much attraction to himself from the show’s producers and the killers, who would alternatively helium lose.

Running Man was antecedently adapted into a 1987 movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger by Paul Michael Glaser, and backmost successful June, Powell teased what would marque this caller mentation antithetic from its predecessor. Wright’s film, helium said, is “more grounded” successful King’s book, which made the hunt for Richards into a planetary 1 alternatively than conscionable the US. We’ll find retired however the 2 films disagree erstwhile Wright’s The Running Man hits theaters connected November 21, 2025.

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