Although we are still waiting for Edgar Wright’s Night spent in Soho, deliminated by the general pandemic of all this, to finally hit theaters, a The Sparks Brothers the director just added a new movie your always-filled list of future projects: A new adaptation of the dark satire of Stephen King’s game show The running man.
The running man of course, it has been adapted for the screen before. In 1987, Paul Michael Glaser re-imagined the common man scrawper from the book Ben Richards as Arnold Schwarzenegger in his moment of killing and mocking, and transformed the premise of the original—Leased under the pseudonym of King’s Richard Bachman, where all of his darkest impulses in the 1980s tended to find acceptance– from a manhunt across the country in a series of gladiator fights teeming with cheap supervillains played by a variety of professional fighters, former football players and a true opera singer. Per Deadline, Wright’s new script, which is set to be co-written with his Scott Pilgrim contributor Michael Bacall, will cut much closer to King’s book, a courageous look at a dystopian world in which health is auctioned through game shows and life is extremely cheap – even if you get $ 100 an hour, you can escape the authorities that were allowed to shoot your competitors / prey in sight.
And we’ll be honest: There are two main issues raised for us for this project, that Wright is supposedly making a deal with Paramount right now to develop and direct. The first being, how the hell is it the writer-director will you manage the original ending of the book, the climax so dark and destructive that King has already written? And the second is the question of how Wright hopes to get his film down Glaser’s shadow touch of genuine genius in Schwarzenegger’s film: Ça sting Family feud host Richard Dawson to cruelly deconstruct his own infinite and poorly contained anger image as game show businessman Damon Killian. And, look: no one is saying Edgar Wright has to launch Dawson’s Family feud great successor, Steve Harvey, in a similar role. But also: THEOnce you start thinking about that idea, you can’t stop thinking about it. This is your blessing now, and its curse.