Edgar Wright’s The Running Man Gets Debut Trailer, Reveals Glen Powell as Ben Richards, Josh Brolin as Killian, and an Electric Michael Cera

The archetypal trailer for The Running Man is here, and it shows Glen Powell successful a much faithful adaptation of the Stephen King caller than Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 1987 sci-fi classic.

The trailer, below, shows Glen Powell’s downtrodden Ben Richards participate The Running Man — the biggest TV amusement successful this dystopian America — retired of a hopeless request for wealth to assistance his sick girl amid a aesculapian crisis. Powell’s employment presumption is declared “blacklisted” truthful he’s incapable to work. In the Arnie version, Richards is forced into The Running Man arsenic a framed cop.

The quality of the amusement itself is different, too. Powell’s Richards is hunted by the full state arsenic helium clings desperately to endurance and a accidental astatine the immense currency prize. His each determination is watched, and so we spot this successful enactment successful the trailer. All Richards needs to bash is past for 30 days and he’s won. Of course, it’s not rather that easy.

This caller The Running Man is directed by Edgar Wright of Shaun of the Dead and Baby Driver fame, and you tin consciousness his signature, fast-paced benignant successful the trailer. Wright has spoken of his tendency to much faithfully accommodate King’s novel, and arsenic a effect we person Josh Brolin arsenic Killian, the show’s enforcement producer, and a abstracted quality (Colman Domingo’s Bobby Thompson) hosting the amusement itself. Richards has a fewer prime words for Killian earlier mounting retired to enactment successful The Running Man, and helium vows to instrumentality his revenge.

The scope of this caller The Running Man is antithetic compared to the 1987 film. Powell’s Richards is connected the tally crossed the full country, whereas Arnie’s Richard’s was confined to a closed disconnected play country (packed with fondly remembered brag fights). The trailer teases a amusive series wherever Richards runs retired an flat into a corridor portion dodging bullets, past descent into an elevator to escape.

Richards is hunted passim by a singular masked quality whose individuality remains a mystery, but Entertainment Weekly reported the character's sanction is McCone and is played by Foundation prima Lee Pace.

What we are definite of is The Running Man volition spot Glen Powell running. A lot. And yes, helium takes his garment off. We yet spot Michael Cera, who played Scott Pilgrim successful Wright’s 2010 movie, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, assistance Richards retired by spraying h2o connected an electrified floor. All precise video games.

EW reports Cera plays Elton Parrakis from the book. "I deliberation what helium does successful the movie is simply a small surprising, possibly from his erstwhile performances," Wright added. "It was specified a thrill to beryllium with him and besides conscionable to spot him and Glen Powell together. They're a precise improbable duo that it was truly amusive to witness."

The Running Man launches November 7, 2025.

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