Glen Powell Races to Stay Alive in Bloody CinemaCon Trailer for Edgar Wright’s ‘The Running Man’
variety.comBrent Lang Executive Editor Glen Powell is lacing up his sneakers and racing to stay alive in the thriller first trailer for “The Running Man,” Edgar Wright’s adaptation of the dystopian action thriller that was another key step in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s transformation from professional bodybuilder into a major movie star.
Paramount Pictures, the studio behind the remake, offered a first look at the film at CinemaCon as part of its presentation to theater owners on Thursday.
If finds Powell playing a down-and-out family man who decides to compete in a deadly game show where contestants try to outrace swat teams and drones that are trying to hunt them down (think “American Idol” with a much higher body count).
The winner gets a cash prize. The losers end up in the morgue. “This game is no game…life and death run wild,” Colman Domingo, playing the malevolent show host, intones. “This is America goddammit and we don’t put up with no bullshit.” The film is an adaptation of the 1982 novel of the same name by Stephen King, which he wrote under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman.
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