Josh Brolin is in final negotiations to star opposite Glen Powell in The Running Man, Paramount’s adaptation of the Stephen King novel.
Edgar Wright is directing the feature and co-wrote the script with Michael Bacall.
Katy O’Brian, the rising actress who gained notices with Love Lies Bleeding, is already on the roll call for the feature that will shoot in London at the top of next year.
The novel centered on one desperate man, needing money for his sick daughter, who joins the most popular show, The Running Man, in which teams of killers hunt down contestants. The longer a contestant survives, the more money that person makes. But as the game show’s producers and killers will find out, this desperate man will break all the rules and expose the show’s dark secrets.
King’s Running Man, published in 1982 and written under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, was set in 2025 in an America under a totalitarian regime that uses violent game shows to placate the disenfranchised masses.
Powell is playing that desperate man. Brolin stars as the ruthless producer of the game show. (O’Brian will play one of the contestants on the show.)
Paramount is releasing the film on Nov. 21, 2025.
Simon Kinberg, Nira Park and Wright are producing.
