Glen Powell is going from Hangman to The Running Man. The Top Gun: Maverick star was tapped to topline director Edgar Wright's take on Stephen King's dystopian novella, a role they agreed would excel ...

Looking back at the original, Wright’s film often seems more like a restoration project than a remake, to the extent that the director has taken a bold step away from the quaint comedy that peppers ...

The actor stars as an Everyman battling it out in a near-future but familiarly dystopian America in the director Edgar Wright’s new version of the Stephen King novel. By Manohla Dargis When you ...

As disinformation runs rampant and the truth is under attack, “The Running Man” comes out at a timely moment. The dystopian blockbuster is the second adaptation of Stephen King’s 1982 novel. However, ...

Edgar Wright has been one of pop culture’s most idiosyncratic voices since the beginning of his feature-film career. He’s a restless joker who leaps from genre to genre, bringing along a visible love ...

Action Movies The Running Man star Glen Powell says Top Gun: Maverick prepared him to lead Edgar Wright's action-packed Stephen King adaptation: "Don't take any shortcuts" Movies Critics Have Seen The ...

One tricky thing about writing dystopian fiction with staying power is that the future eventually catches up with you. Stephen King's 1982 novel The Running Man takes place in 2025. In his vision of, ...

This article contains spoilers for The Running Man (2025). There are a number of burning questions lingering at the end of Edgar Wright’s adaptation of Stephen King/Richard Bachman’s The Running Man.