Glen Powell Lands Lead in Running Man Reboot with Arnold’s Blessing

Glen Powell lands lead in Running Man reboot with Arnold’s blessing

Hollywood’s favorite heartthrob Glen Powell is officially stepping into dystopian territory with The Running Man reboot — and he has Arnold Schwarzenegger’s blessing to do it. The 1987 sci-fi classic, originally led by Schwarzenegger, is being reimagined by director Edgar Wright, with Powell in the lead role of Ben Richards. Powell got the green light directly from the original star, thanks to a little help from The White Lotus Season 3 actor Pa…

Arnold Schwarzenegger Passed the Torch on a Forgotten Sci-Fi Role to One of His Son Patrick's A-List Pals

When your dad is a legendary action hero and your friend happens to be Hollywood’s current favorite heartthrob, you’re in a prime position to play middleman for a very iconic torch-passing. That’s exactly the role The White Lotus Season 3 star Patrick Schwarzenegger played recently — not in a movie, but in real life — by helping one of his closest A-list pals score a coveted blessing from the Terminator himself. The torch? Arnold Schwarzenegge…

‘The Running Man’ Reboot: Everything To Know So Far About Glen Powell’s Stephen King Adaptation (May 2025 Update)

Getty Image / TriStar Pictures/NBC The Running Man was part of Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s long-running streak of one-liner laden, 1980s guilty pleasures. ‘Twas also an era of dystopian, technology-fueled tales, and this project fit right in between the first two The Terminator films. And although Paul Michael Glaser’s adaptation of a Stephen King novel (written under the Richard Bachman pseudonym) differed from the book, it was no less unsettling i…

Arnold Schwarzenegger Has Given His Blessings to His 38-Year-Old Stephen King Adaptation Replacement

While Hollywood has no shortage of original content, the industry has lately been too keen on reboots and remakes. One such upcoming reboot is a Glen Powell-starrer film, which is a remake of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 1987 action flick, Running Man. Based on Stephen King’s dystopian novel, Running Man, written under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, is getting a modern reboot with the Top Gun: Maverick star in the lead. While actors often disapprove …