‘The Running Man’: Josh Brolin In Talks To Join Glen Powell On Edgar Wright’s Stephen King Adaptation As Villain
theplaylist.netJosh Brolin already has a couple of intriguing projects on his upcoming calendar: Rian Johnson‘s next “Knives Out” mystery “Wake Up Dead Man“ and Zach Cregger‘s “Barbarian” follow-up “Weapons.” Now it’s time to add another one to the list.
THR reports that Brolin is in final talks to star opposite Glen Powell in Edgar Wright‘s upcoming Stephen King adaptation “The Running Man.” READ MORE: Josh Brolin Says Zach Cregger’s ‘Weapons’ Is “Brilliantly Designed” And “Better Than ‘Barbarian'” For those unfamiliar with “The Running Man,” it’s one of King’s “Bachman Books” (Richard Bachman being an early pen name for the prolific author).
And out of the four, the 1982 novel is the most popular, partly due to 1987 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. But the original novel is much, much darker than Arnie’s ’80s action pic.
In it, a desperate man in 2025 dystopian American needs money for his sick daughter. To get it, he enters a popular TV program where teams of killers hunt down contestants: the longer one survives, the more money they make.
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