Although we are still waiting for Edgar Wright’s Last night in Soho, dpostponed by the general pandemic of it all, to finally arrive in theaters, the The Sparks Brothers director just added a new movie always full of future projects: A new adaptation of the grim satire of Stephen King’s game show The running man
The running man has of course been adapted to the screen before. In 1987, Paul Michael Glaser rethought the lean scrapper of the book Ben Richards as Arnold Schwarzenegger at its deadliest, and transformed the premise of the original– released under King’s pseudonym Richard Bachman, where all his darkest impulses in the 1980s tended to be bought– from a country manhunt to a series of gladiatorial contests full of cheap supervillains played by a variety of professional wrestlers, former soccer players and a real opera singer Per Deadline Wright’s new script, that will be co-written with his Scott Pilgrim collaborator Michael Bacall, will hew much closer to King’s book, a gritty look at a dystopian world where healthcare is auctioned through game shows and life is extremely cheap – even getting $ 100 for every hour you can evade authorities authorized to shoot their participants / prey on the spot
And we’ll be honest There are two important questions for us through this project, which Wright is reportedly making a deal with Paramount right now develop and then directThe first being, how hell is the author-director are you going to manage the original ending of the book, as bleak and destructive a climax as King ever wrote? And the second is the matter of how Wright expects his film to come out of it Glaser’s shadow bona fide genius touch in the movie Schwarzenegger C.a stab Family feud host Richard Dawson to viciously deconstruct his own endlessly smiling, barely contained anger image as game show impresario Damon Killian. And look: nobody says Edgar Wright has to cast Dawson’s Family feud great successor, Steve Harvey, in a similar role. B.ut also: THEIf you have started to think about this idea, you will not be able to stop it. This is your blessing nowand your curse.