4 years have passed by because it was introduced that Edgar Wright was approaching board to direct a brand new tackle the novel The Working Man, which was written by Stephen King beneath his Richard Bachman pen identify. The Working Man was, in fact, beforehand become a movie again in 1987 that starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and had little to do with the supply materials. Final yr, Wright’s movie entered manufacturing with Glen Powell of Prime Gun: Maverick, Hit Man, and Twisters within the lead position. Filming wrapped within the early months of this yr, with the film heading towards a November 14th theatrical launch. With that date now proper across the nook, a brand new poster for the movie has been unveiled and may be seen on the backside of this text.
King’s novel has the next description: It was the final word dying sport in a nightmare future America. The yr is 2025 and actuality TV has grown to the purpose the place individuals are keen to wager their lives for an opportunity at a billion-dollar jackpot. Ben Richards is determined – he wants cash to deal with his daughter’s sickness. His final probability is coming into a sport present referred to as The Working Man the place the aim is to keep away from seize by Hunters who’re employed to kill him. Surviving this month-long chase is one other difficulty when everybody else on the planet is watching – and keen to show him in for the reward. Right here’s the synopsis for the brand new movie adaptation: In a near-future society, The Working Man is the top-rated present on tv—a lethal competitors the place contestants, referred to as Runners, should survive 30 days whereas being hunted by skilled assassins, with each transfer broadcast to a bloodthirsty public and every day bringing a larger money reward. Determined to avoid wasting his sick daughter, working-class Ben Richards (Glen Powell) is satisfied by the present’s charming however ruthless producer, Dan Killian (Josh Brolin), to enter the sport as a final resort. However Ben’s defiance, instincts, and grit flip him into an sudden fan favourite—and a menace to the whole system. As scores skyrocket, so does the hazard, and Ben should outwit not simply the Hunters, however a nation hooked on watching him fall.
Throughout an interview on the Joyful Unhappy Confused podcast some time again, Wright stated he was drawn to The Working Man as a result of, “I like the film but I like the book more, and they didn’t really adapt the book. Even as a teenager when I saw the Schwarzenegger film I was like, ‘Oh, this isn’t like the book at all!’ And I think, ‘Nobody’s [done] that book.’ So when that came up, I was thinking, and Simon Kinberg says, ‘Do you have any interest in The Running Man?’ I said, ‘You know what? I’ve often thought that that book is something crying out to be adapted.’ Now, that doesn’t mean that it’s easy! [Laughs] But it’s something that we are working on, yes.”
Wright is directing The Working Man from a script he co-wrote with Michael Bacall and is producing the movie with Nira Park and Simon Kinberg. Powell is joined within the forged by Katy O’Brian (who had a breakthrough position in Love Lies Bleeding and shared the display with Powell in Twisters) as a contestant; Daniel Ezra, who performed the character Spencer James on 106 episodes of the CW collection All American; Josh Brolin (Outer Vary), taking part in a TV government who’s the primary villain; Lee Tempo (Halt and Catch Hearth) as a ruthless hunter; Michael Cera (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) as a “naïve rebel who tries to help the desperate man”; Emilia Jones (CODA) as a “privileged lady blind to the oppression of the federal government“; David Zayas (Dexter) as a personality named Richard Manuel; Colman Domingo (Worry the Strolling Useless) because the host of The Working Man, a violent actuality present promising an outrageous money prize; 6-foot-8-inch actor and former MMA fighter Chi Lewis-Parry (28 Years Later) as a runner; and Jayme Lawson (Sinners) and William H. Macy of Fargo and Boogie Nights in unspecified roles.
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