The Love Lies Bleeding and Mission: Impossible 8 actress Katy O’Brian is joining Glen Powell in Paramount’s redux of The Running Man helmed by Edgar Wright. The movie is based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King that the author first published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. Wright co-wrote the script with Michael Bacall.
Simon Kinberg, Nira Park and Wright are producing. As we told you earliler today, Running Man is opening against Universal’s Wicked: Part Two on Nov. 21, 2025; that’s the Friday before Thanksgiving.
This year, Paramount has Gladiator II going the Friday before Thanksgiving in that same slot versus Uni’s Wicked: Part One. The 1987 feature take of Running Man was directed by Paul Michael Glaser and starred Arnold Schwarzenegger in the title role alongside Yaphet Kotto, Maria Conchita Alonso and Family Feud game show host Richard Dawson playing a nefarious game show host in the futuristic set feature. The Running Man tells the story of a falsely convicted policeman who gets his shot at freedom when he must forcibly participate in a TV game show where convicts, runners, must battle killers for their freedom.
The movie grossed $38M at the domestic box office, unadjusted for inflation..