Edgar Wright and Glen Powell’s extremely anticipated remake of The Running Man is formally slated for a theatrical launch on November 7, 2025. Naturally, the new movie will likely be in comparison with the 1987 cult favourite that starred Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Though the unique adaptation of Stephen King’s dystopian novel has maintained a loyal fanbase over the years, Schwarzenegger not too long ago acknowledged that the upcoming remake has an actual probability to surpass his model by addressing its previous limitations.
In a brand new interview with CBR, Schwarzenegger discusses the upcoming remake, relating some weak factors in the unique that he thinks Wright and Powell’s movie can enhance upon.
Stated Schwarzenegger, “Running Man’ was one in all the films that…I believe it will have been nice if we might have been higher ready for this film if we might have had extra money for this film, and if we might have had then… the visible results, the expertise of visible results, that they’ve immediately, all of these issues I needed after the film got here out, I felt prefer it may have been higher.“
He continued, “It was nice, nevertheless it may have been higher, and I believe that they’ve a great probability now with the new ‘Running Man’ to make it higher. And I hope, for his or her sake and for my sake, I hope that they are going to be profitable.“
The unique 1987 movie starring Schwarzenegger additionally took important liberties with the Stephen King novel. Nevertheless, Powell and Wright’s undertaking guarantees a extra devoted adaptation, together with an outline of Ben Richards as the common, everyman particular person he’s in the e book.
Along with Powell, the remake additionally stars Colman Domingo (If Beale Road Could Discuss), Michael Cera, (Scot Pilgrim vs the World), Josh Brolin (Dune: Half Two, Avengers: Infinity Struggle), Emilia Jones (Locke & Key), Lee Tempo (Halt and Catch Hearth, Basis), William H. Macy (Shameless))and Katy O’Brian (Love Lies Bleeding).
Brolin is ready to play a producer of the present, with Domingo enjoying the present’s host, and Tempo enjoying one in all the fiendish hunters tasked with looking down the recreation’s contestants.
Cera is reportedly enjoying a insurgent who’s out to overthrow the authorities and finds himself aiding Powell’s lead character.
Katy O’Brian, Daniel Ezra, and Karl Glusman are additionally set to look in supporting roles.
Per Powell’s Instagram, filming on the remake wrapped again in March.
With Edgar Wright’s distinct cinematic aptitude and a pointy, politically charged humorousness woven into Stephen King’s traditional narrative, The Running Man remake has the potential to be way more than a easy nostalgia-driven reboot