A few years ago it was announced Edgar Wright would write and direct a new film adaptation of Stephen King’S The runner. Now in a recent manufacturer update Simone Kinbergwe learn that the film is still in development and that filming could begin next year.
During an interview with /Film, Kinberg offered an update on the project, saying: “[Wright is] one of my favorite directors of all time and one of my favorite people, just a great guy. Obviously a cinephile. We are actively working on it. He is actively working on the script with Michael Bacall. And our hope is that it’s a movie that, once again, all fingers crossed, luck and everything goes in our favor, and that Edgar can maybe direct next year.”
He continued, “Well, the nice thing is that Edgar, completely separately, before Paramount and I started the journey of figuring out how to get the remake rights, which was complicated, he had tweeted, on his own — and I follow him obviously on every platform possible: he tweeted that if there was one movie he would remake, it was Running Man.
The story is set in the United States in the year 2025, a time when the economy is in ruins and violence increases dramatically. It is said that this new version of the film will remain more faithful to the original material. Here is a description of the story:
Ben Richards is a desperate man. Without work, without money, with no way out and with a young daughter in need of adequate medical care, he must resort to the only possibility to get rich in this dystopian America of the near future: participate in the ultraviolent television programming of the Games Network authorized by the government. He soon finds himself selected as a contestant in the biggest and best that Games Network has to offer: “The Running Man”, a thirty-day all-out struggle to stay alive as public enemy number one, relentlessly hunted by an assault force elite intent on killing him as quickly as possible in front of a public all too eager to see it happen. It means a billion dollars in prize money if he lives through the next month. No one has ever survived for more than eight days. But desperation can push a person to do things he never thought possible, and Ben Richards is willing to go the distance in this ultimate game of life and death…
Michael Bacall (Scott Pellegrino) wrote the screenplay from a story he co-wrote with Wright. Simone Kinberg (X-Men, Dark Phoenix) AND Audrey Chon will produce the film.
by Joey Paur
Source: Geek Tyrant
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