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Edgar Wright is ready to play the most dangerous game: the adaptation of a Stephen King novel. According to Deadline, the Baby driver filmmaker has signed a new adaptation of The running man, King’s 1982 novel published under Paramount Pictures under his famous pseudonym Richard Bachman. He will co-write the feature, reportedly a “much more faithful” adaptation of the book, with Michael Bacall, the screenwriter behind films such as Scott Pilgrim against the world, also directed by Wright, and both Springstraat movies.
Natural, The running man has already been adapted into one film, the 1987 eponymous sci-fi action movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Richard Dawson, Maria Conchita Alonso and Jesse Venture. The film follows Schwarzenegger’s Ben Richards, who is forced to compete in a hellish game where he has to send armed hunters sent to kill ‘runners’ for the audience’s home.
According to Deadline, Wright said in 2017 that “if he could make a movie, he would choose” The running man, such a remake feels like a perfect project. Plus, as The running man was an actual TV show, you just know that it will be constantly reloading. It would be the Obliteration of the dystopian near future.