Although we’re still waiting for Edgar Wright’s Last Night In Soho, ddecayed by the general pandemic of everything, to finally arrive in theaters, the The Sparks Brothers director has just added a new movie to his ever-packed lead of future projects: A new adaptation of Stephen King’s grim game show satire The running man.
The running man has of course been adjusted on screen before. Ia 1987, Paul Michael Glaser imagine again the book’s scrappy everyday scraper Ben Richards as Arnold Schwarzenegger on his murder and quibble, and transformed the premise of the original—Released under the pseudonym Richard Bachman of King, where all his darkest impulses in the 1980s tended to buy—From a nationwide hunt to a series of gladiatorial matches filled with prestigious supervillains played by a variety of pro wrestlers, former soccer players and one true opera singer. Per Deadline, Wright’s new screenplay, what’s going to be written with his Scott pilgrim employee Michael Bacall, sal kap much closer to King’s book, a funny look at a dystopian world in which healthcare is auctioned off via gaming programs and life is extraordinarily cheap – even if you are paid $ 100 for every hour, you can evade the authorities authorized to shoot their participants / prey in sight.
And we will be honest: There are two important questions for us through this project, which Wright believes will now negotiate with Paramount to develop and then direct. The first being, how the hell is the author-director going to drive the original end of the book, as a gloomy and destructive climax as King ever wrote? And the second is the issue of how Wright expects to take his film from the bottom up the shadow of Glaser’s one bona fide genius touch in the Schwarzenegger movie: Castonishing Family fat host Richard Dawson to deconstruct his own endless smiling, barely-contained anger image as game show impresario Damon Killian. And look: nobody says Edgar Wright has Dawson’s te rol Family fat great successor, Steve Harvey, in a similar role. But also: OOnce you start thinking about this idea, you can not stop thinking about it. This is your blessing now, and your curse.