Love Lies Bleeding star Katy O’Brian will be a part of Glen Powell in Edgar Wright’s upcoming remake of The Operating Man.
THR stories that Katy O’Brian, who broke out in a giant manner with Love Lies Bleeding, is ready to affix Glen Powell in Edgar Wright’s The Operating Man.
Powell stars as a “desperate man, needing money for his sick daughter, who joins the most popular show, The Running Man, in which teams of killers hunt down contestants. The longer that a contestant survives, the more money that person makes. But as the game show’s producers and killers will find out, this desperate man will break all the rules and expose the show’s dark secrets.” O’Brian will play one of many contestants on the present. This received’t be the primary time Powell and O’Brian have labored collectively, as they each appeared in Twisters, with O’Brian taking part in one of many members of the storm-chasing crew.
Edgar Wright is directing The Operating Man from a script he co-wrote with Michael Bacall. It’s based mostly on Stephen King’s novel of the identical identify, which was revealed in 1982 below the pseudonym Richard Bachman. Wright has beforehand mentioned that The Operating Man remake can be nearer to the unique Stephen King novel than the Arnold Schwarzenegger film. “I like the film but I like the book more, and they didn’t really adapt the book,” Wright mentioned. “At the same time as an adolescent once I noticed the Schwarzenegger movie I used to be like, ‘Oh, this isn’t just like the ebook in any respect!’ And I believe, ‘Nobody’s [done] that ebook.’ So when that got here up, I used to be considering, and Simon Kinberg says, ‘Do you have any interest in The Running Man?’ I mentioned, ‘You know what? I’ve typically thought that that ebook is one thing crying out to be tailored.’ Now, that doesn’t imply that it’s straightforward!“
The Operating Man isn’t the one main venture that Katy O’Brian has within the works. She may even seem alongside Tom Cruise within the eighth Mission: Inconceivable film. We don’t know a lot about her function within the film, however you’ll anticipate that she can be collaborating in a couple of motion scenes. O’Brian can be recognized for her appearances in The Mandalorian as Imperial spy Elia Kane and as Jentorra in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
Paramount introduced at present that The Operating Man will hit theaters on November 21, 2025.
