Edgar Wright is preparing a new version of King’s The Running Man

Although we were still waiting for Edgar Wright Last night in Soho, redispelled by the general pandemic of it all, to finally arrive in theaters, the The Sparks Brothers the director just added a new movie to his list always filled with future projects: A new adaptation of the dark satire of Stephen King’s game show The running man.

The running man has, of course, been adapted to the screen before. Inot 1987, Paul Michael Glaser rethought Ben Richards, the scrapper everyone skinny from the book Arnold Schwarzenegger at his kill-and-quippiestand transformed the premise of the original– released under the King’s pseudonym Richard Bachman, where all of his darker urges of the 1980s tended to find a buy– from a nationwide manhunt to a series of supervillain-filled gladiatorial matches played by a variety of professional wrestlers, former footballers and a true opera singer. By Deadline, Wright’s new script, which should be co-written with his Scott Pilgrim associate Michael Bacall, will prune much closer to King’s book, a cruel take on a dystopian world in which healthcare is auctioned off via game shows and life is extremely cheap – even if you get paid $ 100 for every hour you can evade the authorities who were allowed to shoot their competitors / prey on sight.

And we will be honest: Two big questions are put to us by this project, that Wright would have entered into a deal with Paramount at this time develop then lead. The first being, how the hell is the writer-director will handle the original ending of the book, a climax as dark and destructive as King ever wrote? And the second is the question of how Wright hopes to get his movie out from underneath the shadow of Glaser’s real touch of genius in the film Schwarzenegger: VSa puncture Family quarrel host Richard Dawson to viciously deconstruct his own ever-smiling and barely contained rage image as game show impresario Damon Killian. And look: Nobody says Edgar Wright at to launch Dawson’s Family quarrel grand successor, Steve Harvey, in a similar role. But also: THEOnce you start thinking about this idea, you won’t be able to stop thinking about it. This is your blessing now, and your curse.