Daniel Ezra of the TV sequence All American has joined Glen Powell and Katy O’Brian in Edgar Wright’s tackle The Operating Man
Three years have passed by because it was introduced that Edgar Wright was approaching board to direct a brand new tackle the novel The Operating Man, which was written by Stephen King below his Richard Bachman pen title. The Operating Man was, in fact, beforehand become a movie again in 1987 that starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and had little to do with the supply materials. Earlier this yr, it was introduced that Glen Powell of High Gun: Maverick, Hit Man, and Twisters is following within the footsteps of Schwarzenegger to play the lead function within the new adaptation – and now we’re beginning to hear the names of a few of his co-stars. Final week, it was introduced that Katy O’Brian, who had a breakthrough function in Love Lies Bleeding and shared the display with Powell in Twisters, had signed on to play one of many contestants within the movie. Now, Deadline has reported that Daniel Ezra, who performed the character Spencer James on 106 episodes of the CW sequence All American, has additionally joined the forged. Particulars on his character weren’t revealed.
King’s novel has the next description: It was the last word loss of life sport in a nightmare future America. The yr is 2025 and actuality TV has grown to the purpose the place persons are prepared 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 likelihood is getting into a sport present known as The Operating Man the place the purpose is to keep away from seize by Hunters who’re employed to kill him. Surviving this month-long chase is one other subject when everybody else on the planet is watching – and prepared to show him in for the reward.
Throughout an interview on the Comfortable Unhappy Confused podcast final yr, Wright stated he was drawn to The Operating 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 Operating Man from a script he co-wrote with Michael Bacall and is producing the movie with Nira Park and Simon Kinberg.
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