Glen Powell (‘Twisters’) to star in a remake of one of Schwarzenegger’s least known movies

After his appearance in ‘Top Gun Maverick’, Glen Powell’s career has not stopped going on the rise, completing his resume with films like ‘Anyone but You’, ‘Hit Man’, and currently in theaters with ‘Twisters’. And if that was not enough, he has applied more than seriously to become the new Batman of James Gunn’s DC Universe. But not content with that, he’s now been confirmed to star in the remake of one of the biggest action movies from Arnold Schwarzenegger from the 80s.

We’re talking about ‘The Running Man’. The actor of Austrian origin starred in this film in 1987, playing a police officer who is unjustly accused of a crime and finds himself involved in a kind of reality show where he must face real murderers. In turn, this film is based a Stephen King novel of the same name -which he published under his pseudonym Richard Bachman-, but it wasn’t adapted to the screen with total fidelity, rather taking certain licenses.

A more faithful adaptation of Stephen King’s novel

“I’m going to be shooting The Running Man in the fall. So I’m going to be in London, but I am going to be going back for proctored exams.” said Powell, revealing how he’s balancing work with a university degree education. “So, they’re letting me figure it out [with] distance learning. And I’m obviously going to be coming in, Zooming in for classes and whatnot, but I have to be back for the proctored exams. So, we’re figuring that out for two or three times a semester, I’ll come back for all my stuff. Edgar [Wright] has been very nice about letting me finish my degree in the middle of his massive movie.”

“We’ve been going back and forth on script stuff, and it’s so fun. The world that Edgar’s developed on this thing is just outrageous. It’s so good. And really, we’re just both such big fans of the Stephen King book, and it’s going to be a great character.”

As Powell explains, It will be a more faithful adaptation of the work of the Maine writer, since in his novel, Ben Richards is not a police officer, but a man who has become bankrupt and whose last resort is to participate in this contest to take care of the health of his sick daughter, Cathy. In addition, Richards wants his wife to stop working as a prostitute, the only way they can both raise the money necessary to keep their daughter alive.

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