WhenEdgar Wright’sThe melt down Mannamed Glen Powell(Twisters)as its ace earlier this year , it seemed almost too much to hope that the movie would arrive in 2025 : the same class Stephen King ( write under his Richard Bachman nom de guerre ) limit his dystopian story . Though Wright ’s involvement in this interpretation was announce in 2021 , with the busy Powell conjoin so of late , it hardly seemed possible the stars would align to make that line - consummate release day of the month . But we learned today , it will .
According tothe Hollywood Reporter , Paramount Pictures has setThe Running Man‘s release engagement as November 21 , 2025.The deal also revealedthat Katy O’Brien(Love Lies Bleeding , The Mandalorian)has join the hurl .
When Wright first came aboard the film , it was said this labor would hew nigher to King ’s original taradiddle than the Arnold Schwarzenegger - starring adaption that hit screens in 1987 . In February 2021,Deadlinereported “ theBaby Driverwriter - director [ Wright ] will co - write the story with Michael Bacall , and they will be much more close to King ’s bestselling novel . Bacall will write the playscript . ”
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In June of this year , not long after he ’d joined the plaster bandage , Powell elaboratedon that detail . speak toUSA Today , he explained that he ’s long been a Wright fan . “ What ’s been really incredible is his take on [ King ’s story ] . It ’s very much not the original Schwarzenegger flick , it ’s much more base in the Stephen King rendering . ”
Despite having first collide with bookshelves in 1982,The Running Manstill feels spookily timely ; it ’s about a man who reluctantly sign onto a realness show run by the government and televised to an eager audience , hoping to earn enough money to get practice of medicine for his ailing daughter . Oh , and also not get mowed down by the assassins who are chase after him , to the pleasure of all the fan check . It’sSquid Gamemeets reality TV competitions — THR notes that O’Brien will play a fellow protester — blended with care about the rising costs of health care and callous politicians for good mensuration . And , it ’s deserving mention one more sentence , it take place in 2025 .
Paramount ’s other exit date update today include the Liam Neeson - starringNaked Gunremake , which will be out August 1 , 2025 ( a shift of just a few hebdomad from its July 18 , 2025 original date ) ; Chris Miller ’s as - yet ignoble animated Smurfs melodious starring Rihanna will snag that July 18 particular date alternatively . Also of note to genre fans : Vicious , a horror motion picture starring Dakota Fanning , will now arrive February 25 , 2025 , several months earlier than its previously announced late - summer arrival .
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