Josh Brolin has entered into final negotiations to star in Edgar Wright’s adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘The Running Man’.

Edgar Wright is directing the feature and co-wrote the script with Michael Bacall. Katy O’Brian has also joined the cast. Filming is due to begin filming in London in the new year.

Brolin would join Glen Powell, who will be taking on the role previously played by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1987 classic. Brolin stars as the ruthless producer of the game show. (O’Brian will play one of the contestants on the show.)

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Based on a novel of the same name by King, the story was 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, must battle killers for their freedom.

King’s novel was published in 1982 and written under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. It was set in 2025 in America under a totalitarian regime that uses violent game shows to placate the disenfranchised masses.