The Running Man mixes mayhem and humor in first trailer

As promised, the archetypal trailer for manager Edgar Wright’s instrumentality connected Stephen King’s caller The Running Man is present — and it looks similar a playful throwback to ‘80s enactment movies.

The communicative centers connected a struggling antheral named Ben Richards, played by Glen Powell, who is simply a contestant connected a mega-popular TV crippled amusement wherever he’s hunted by trained killers, and earns much wealth the longer helium stays alive. The extremity is to past a full 30 days unscathed, which typically doesn’t happen. Oh, and fundamentally each national is trying to drawback him arsenic well. Despite the acheronian premise, the trailer has a reasonably lighthearted tone, mixed successful with each of the decease and destruction.

In summation to being helmed by Wright — who is best-known for movies similar Shaun of the Dead, Baby Driver, and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World — the caller movie besides includes a beauteous ample and notable cast. That includes Powell successful the pb role, alongside Katy O’Brian, Daniel Ezra, Karl Glusman, Josh Brolin, Lee Pace, Jayme Lawson, Michael Cera, Emilia Jones, William H. Macy, David Zayas, Sean Hayes, and Colman Domingo.

Of course, this isn’t the archetypal adaptation of the book. It follows Paul Michael Glaser’s movie from 1987, which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and had thing of a post-apocalyptic-meets-American Gladiators vibe.

The latest mentation of The Running Man besides isn’t the lone dystopic King adaptation successful the works close now. The somewhat slower-paced caller The Long Walk is besides coming to theaters this twelvemonth from Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence. It premieres connected September 12th.

The Running Man is scheduled to deed theaters connected November 7th.