Edgar Wright’s The Working Man will get an earlier launch date as Paramount strikes the movie out of the best way of Depraved: For Good.
Edgar Wright’s The Working Man was beforehand slated to hit theaters on November 21, 2025, however Paramount has bumped up the discharge to November 7, 2025. This may transfer it out of the best way of Depraved: For Good, which is ready for a November 21, 2025 launch. The studio can even have entry to extra IMAX screens on the brand new date.
The brand new launch date isn’t fully freed from competitors, as The Working Man will now face off in opposition to Dan Trachtenberg’s Predator: Badlands and Yorgo Lanthimos’ Bugonia, all of that are presently set to open on the identical day.
Glen Powell (Twisters) stars in The Working Man as Ben Richards, 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.” Along with Powell and Zayas, the remainder of the solid contains Josh Brolin (Avengers: Endgame), Katy O’Brian (Love Lies Bleeding), Lee Tempo (Basis), Daniel Ezra (All American), William H. Macy (Shameless), Michael Cera (Scott Pilgrim), Emilia Jones (CODA), Jayme Lawson (The Batman), and David Zayas (Dexter).
Edgar Wright is directing The Working Man from a script he co-wrote with Michael Bacall. It’s based mostly on Stephen King’s novel of the identical title, which was printed in 1982 below the pseudonym Richard Bachman. Wright has beforehand stated that The Working Man remake will likely 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 stated. “At the same time as a teen 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 pondering, and Simon Kinberg says, ‘Do you have any interest in The Running Man?’ I stated, ‘You know what? I’ve usually thought that that ebook is one thing crying out to be tailored.’ Now, that doesn’t imply that it’s straightforward!“ The Working Man will now hit theaters on November 7, 2025.
