Although we are still waiting for Edgar Wright Last night in Soho, dattenuated by the general pandemic of it all, to finally reach the cinemas, el The Sparks brothers the director has just added a new film to his always full list of future projects: A new adaptation of the satire of the Stephen King show The running man.
The running man Of course, it has already adapted to the screen. Jon 1987, Paul Michael Glaser reimagined the clumsy roughness of the book Ben Richards com Arnold Schwarzenegger in his simplest moment, and transformed the premise of the original—Launched under the pseudonym of King Richard Bachman, where all his darkest impulses of the eighties tended to find buy—From a manhunt across the country in a series of gladiatorial matches with supervillains at a slow pace performed by various professional wrestlers, ex-soccer players and a true opera singer. Per Limit date, Wright’s new screenplay, which is definite co-written with his Scott Pilgrim collaborator Michael Bacall, will cut much closer to King’s book, a stark look at a dystopian world in which health is auctioned off through game programs and life is extremely cheap, even if you are paid $ 100 an hour, you can evade the authorities who have been allowed to shoot their contestants / prey in sight.
And, we will be sincere: There are two big questions we ask ourselves for this project, which according to Wright is signing an agreement with Paramount right now to develop and then direct. The first being, as demons the writerdirector will he manage the original ending of the book, a climax as bleak and destructive as King has ever written? And the second is the issue of as Wright hopes to pull his film out from under the shadow of Glaser’s great tone of good faith in Schwarzenegger’s film: Cfrightening Family feud host Richard Dawson for brutally deconstructing his own infinitely smiling, barely moderate rage image as a sample of games by businessman Damon Killian. And look: no one says Edgar Wright has to launch Dawson’s Family feud the great successor, Steve Harvey, in a similar role. BAlso use: ELOnce you’ve started thinking about this idea, you won’t be able to stop thinking about it. This is your blessing now, and your curse.