Lee Pace is back as the bad guy and the latest star to join the Glen Powell starring 'The Running Man.' The actor also joins Josh Brolin and Katy O'Brian in Paramount's adaptation of the Stephen King novel. King's 'Running Man,' published in 1982 and written under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, was set in 2025 in an America under a totalitarian regime that uses violent game shows to exercise control of the masses.
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00:00Lee Pace is back as the bad guy and the latest star to join the Glenn Powell starring The
00:04Running Man. The actor joins Powell, Josh Brolin and Katie O'Brien in Paramount's adaptation of
00:11the Stephen King novel. King's Running Man published in 1982 and written under the pseudonym
00:16Richard Bachman was set in 2025 in an America under a totalitarian regime that uses violent
00:22game shows to exercise control of the masses. The novel centers on one desperate man played
00:27in the film by Powell needing money for his sick daughter who joins the most popular show
00:32The Running Man in which teams of killers hunt down contestants. The longer a contestant survives
00:37the more money that person makes but as the game show's producers and killers will find out this
00:42desperate man will break all the rules and expose the show's dark secrets. Pace is set to play the
00:47brutal chief hunter for the network airing the game shows and tasked by the producer with hunting
00:52down Powell's character. Edgar Wright is directing the feature with production due to shoot in London
00:57at the top of next year. The Running Man is set to be released on November 21, 2025. For more on
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