Paramount Taps Edgar Wright to Develop/Direct New Running Man Adaptation
Paramount taps Edgar Wright to develop/direct new Running Man adaptation
Nearly 35 years after the novel was first brought to life on the screen with Arnold Schwarzenegger starring, Stephen King’s
The Running Man is getting new life as Paramount is in final talks with Edgar Wright (
Baby Driver) to helm a new adaptation of the sci-fi story, according to Deadline.
First published in 1982 under King’s pseudonym Richard Bachman, the story is set in the dystopian world of 2025 United States, in which the nation’s economy is in ruins and world violence is rising and centers on protagonist Ben Richards, a man desperate to make money to support his gravely ill daughter Cathy and his wife Sheila, as he enters the titular game show in which contestants are allowed to go anywhere in the world while being chased by “Hunters” employed to kill them, earning $100 for every hour the contestant stays alive and