Michael Cera and Emilia Jones have joined Glen Powell on the cast of Edgar Wright’s adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘The Running Man’.
Glen Powell will be taking on the role previously played by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1987 classic.
Cera will play a naïve rebel who tries to help the desperate man, Jones will play a privileged woman blind to the oppression.
Josh Brolin, Katy O’Brian and Lee Pace have previously been announced on the cast for the feature that is due to shoot in London at the early of next year.
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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.
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.
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.
