The Running Man’s Final Trailer Amps up the High-Octane Action
Edgar Wright includes Stephen King's fictional town of Derry as a deliberate homage, linking the film to King's broader universe and honoring the original novel's roots.
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The Running Man’s final trailer amps up the high-octane action
It’s shaping up to be an excellent season for Stephen King adaptations. In September, we got The Long Walk, an excellent (though harrowing) adaptation of King’s 1979 Richard Bachman novel. Last month, HBO debuted its new series IT: Welcome to Derry, which explores the mythology and origins of Pennywise the killer clown. And this Friday is the premiere of The Running Man, director Edgar Wright’s (Shaun of the Dead, Baby Driver, Last Night in Soho…
Edgar Wright's The Running Man Gets A Fun Final Trailer
Edgar Wright’s dystopian, media-enthralled hellscape looks like a real good time. Maybe there’s some irony involved in this final trailer for The Running Man highlighting how much fun the whole exercise promises to be. After all, Edgar Wright‘s adaptation Stephen King’s mean little sci-fi novel is set in a fascist United States whose downtrodden populace are numbed by a never-ending stream of increasingly violent and lurid media, rendering them …
Edgar Wright’s The Running Man gets an explosive final trailer
Read the original post on Flickering Myth here: Edgar Wright’s The Running Man gets an explosive final trailer Ahead of its release this week, Paramount Pictures has shared the final trailer of an extensive marketing campaign for Edgar Wright’s upcoming Stephen King adaptation The Running Man. Starring man of the moment Glen Powell, the action thriller centres on Ben Richards, a man desperate to save his daughter’s life who joins a deadly game […
Watch the final trailer for The Running Man
Edgar Wright (Sean of the Dead, Baby Driver) directed and produced the new adaptation of The Running Man, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Michael Bacall. It is based on the 1982 novel of the same name by Stephen King (under his pseudonym Richard Bachman). The first adaptation was back in 1987 and starred Arnold […]
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