Colman Domingo has been cast in Edgar Wright’s upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘The Running Man.’
Domingo joins to take on the role of the Game Show host. He joins the previously announced cast of Glen Powell, who takes on the titular role. Josh Brolin, Katy O’Brian and Daniel Ezra have also previously been announced on the cast for the feature.
Based on King’s novel of the same name, the story is set in a dystopian America. A falsely convicted policeman gets his shot at freedom when he must forcibly participate in a TV game show where convicts and runners battle killers for their freedom.
Centering on a desperate man named Ben Richards, needing money for his sick daughter. He joins the most popular show, The Running Man, in which teams of killers hunt down contestants. The longer 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.
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Published in 1982 and written under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, the book was set in 2025 in an America under a totalitarian regime that uses violent game shows to placate the disenfranchised masses.
Wright is set to take the director’s chair and co-wrote the script with Michael Bacall, and will produce with his producing partner Nira Park and Simon Kinberg. George Linder will executive produce.
The movie has a release date of November 7th, 2025.
