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It's been rumored for years that Stephen King's The Running Man would get an eventual reboot. Well, it looks like it's finally happening. The original story which was released under the name Richard Bachman became a huge '80s action sci-fi hit and furthered Arnold Schwarzenegger's rule over the box office. Decades later, the movie is getting a new treatment under the creative eye of Scott Pilgrim's Edgar Wright taking up directorial duties on the new vision for the movie.
Today, the movie got a new update. The film will be produced by Simon Kinberg, Audrey Chon, and Nira Park. Kinberg was quoted when speaking with SlashFilm about the project, stating that, "we are working on it actively" and "Edgar could maybe direct next year".
He continued, "What's cool is that Edgar, completely separately, before myself and Paramount started down the journey of how to get the remake rights, which was complicated, he had tweeted, just on his own, and I follow him on every possible platform, he had tweeted that if there was one movie he would remake ever, it was Running Man."
The dystopian formula has been very popular in recent years which may be a good thing or a bad thing in relation to such an iconic '80s action gem. So we'll have to wait and see what happens.
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