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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