00:00Lee Pace is back as the bad guy and the latest star to join the Glenn Powell starring The
00:05Running 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
00:37survives, the more money that person makes. But as the game show's producers and killers
00:41will find out, this desperate man will break all the rules and expose the show's dark secrets.
00:47Pace is set to play the brutal chief hunter for the network, airing the game shows and tasked
00:51by the producer with hunting down Powell's character. Edgar Wright is directing the feature with production
00:56due to shoot in London at the top of next year. The Running Man is set to be released on November
01:0121st, 2025. For more on this story, head to THR.com. And for the latest entertainment news
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