The Running Man Looks Proper Bonkers and Pure Edgar Wright

Edgar Wright finished filming his adaptation of Stephen King’s The Running Man lone a fewer days agone but we’ve already seen the archetypal footage. The manager of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and Baby Driver was successful Las Vegas for CinemaCon 2025 on with stars Glen Powell, Coleman Domingo, and Josh Brolin to amusement radical what they’ve been making—and it looks amazing.

What you won’t get from the beneath statement is however each of it is each 100% Edgar Wright. So: tons of editing timed perfectly to the music. Broad, sweeping camera moves. High energy. Take that and enactment it connected this.

Ben Richards (Powell) walks though a slum successful a reddish hoodie. We perceive a almighty idiosyncratic (Brolin) archer him that he’s alert of Ben’s situation and thinks appearing connected The Running Man volition lick it. Ben’s wife, played by Jayme Lawson, makes him committedness helium won’t spell connected the show, but it seems similar his kid is sick and this is simply a accidental to lick each his problems.

Somewhere else, a household is watching the amusement and successful a POV of a crossbow we travel the arrow done the woods and past smashing someone’s caput into a tree. Ben tells Brolin, “No,” helium won’t spell connected the amusement and to fuck himself 2 times. “That close determination is wherefore you tin triumph this,” Brolin says.

Coleman Domingo plays the big of the amusement and we spot him successful a maroon colored suit, speaking to the camera astir the show. Meanwhile, we ticker Ben spell done tests to marque definite helium tin look connected the show. A immense country of radical connected treadmills. Him holding a cattle prod successful his manus and conscionable dealing with the pain. On the set, determination are dancers and assemblage excitement arsenic Ben and others get into tubes with the words “Going down” implicit them. “This is America, dammit!” Domingo says, “We don’t instrumentality bullshit.”

“Hunt him down!” Domingo’s quality says to the camera, arsenic we spot Ben retired successful the world. He’s lasting successful beforehand of his wanted poster successful a disguise. Quick cuts amusement him successful each different sorts of scenarios. In a booby-trapped house. Sleeping erstwhile a weapon gets enactment to his head. A pinkish convertible driving done the streets. “Stop filming me,” helium screams successful utmost close-up to a camera pursuing him around.

A combat takes spot successful the cockpit of a level and the abrupt shifts effect successful the pilots and Ben losing their gravity and floating successful the air. Machine guns termination the pilots. Uh-oh.

Ben swings from a enactment into a gathering and crashes done the window. The idiosyncratic whose country helium smashes into says, “You’re connected TV,” and helium is, close then, successful that moment. As helium tries to escape, the camera follows him done a hallway successful a agelong instrumentality with each mode of explosions and gunshots happening each astir him.

At the extremity of the hall, Ben slides into an elevator shaft and throws a grenade back. A atrocious feline throws it backmost to him it explodes successful the elevator. Ben falls each the mode down into a sewer and lands safely successful the gross water. “I’m inactive here, you crap eaters!” helium screams into the camera portion giving the mediate finger.

Finally, Ben is backmost successful a booby-trapped location owned by a quality played by Michael Cera. Soldiers determination into the location and Cera electrocutes the floor. As they locomotion down the hallway, Cera grabs a ample h2o gun, pumps it up, and fires astatine the ground. They each airy up.

The Running Man, which looks simply amazing, opens successful theaters connected November 7.

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