After being part of projects such as Top Gun: Maverick, Twistersy Hit Man, Glen Powell It is ready for another delivery of the action cinema.
It is the reboot of The Running Manof the filmmaker Edgar Wrightbased on Stephen King's novel, which is close to premiere.
With premiere planned in cinemas for November – by the way, in our market under the title The survivor–, Paramount Pictures continues to prepare the audience with promotional material, being the most recent one New official image Centered in Powell as Ben Richards.
Ben is a man who participates in a deadly televised game to earn the money he desperately needs to save his family.
In addition to the gauged by Empire Magazine, the actor told in the middle the challenge of a role as physically demanding as it is The Running Man:
“There are some incredible shots in this movie. I talked to Edgar about this. I said: 'I need people to know that I am running.' So he designed an incredible shot in the movie where I can give free rein to my potential. I didn't want people to think: 'It was good at all but run!’”.
“We are hanging from the sides of the buildings,” he says laughing. “We jump from cars and trains in motion. An elevator collapses while I am inside. There is an incredible air struggle sequence.”
For Wright, it is a new opportunity to try their luck in the action cinema, after exhibiting its skill in deliveries as Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim , The World’s Endy Baby Driver. For the filmmaker it was important to make it see as realistic as possible:
“It was a real effort to create that in the place, and not make a CGI or green screen version. You can say, Officially, you saw Glen Powell jump from a bridge! You are with Glen in each scene of the movie. That is something that I liked a lot about the book: it was a very intense and subjective experience. ”
The image is available at the end of the note.
Based on the 1982 King novel (which later became a 1987 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger), The survivor It develops in a dystopian society where a contest faces the contestants, called “runners”, against murderers also known as “hunters.”
This is Wright's most recent feature film, after directing Last Night in Soho (2021).
In addition to Powell in the main role, the cast has Colman Domingo (Sing Sing), Katy O’Brian (Love Lies Bleeding), Josh Brolin (Sicario), Lee Pace (Guardians of the Galaxy), y Michael Cera (The Phoenician Scheme).
Official synopsis:
“In the near future,” the survivor “is the program of greatest audience on television: a mortal competition where contestants, known as runners, must survive 30 days while they are persecuted by professional murderers. Each movement is transmitted to a blood thirsty for blood and every day increases the reward in cash. But ruthless producer of the program, Dan Killian (Josh Brolin), to join the game as a last resort.
Wright co -written the script with Michael Bacall (Scott Pilgrim vs the World, 21 Jump Street, Project X). It is based on King's novel.
The feature film is produced by Simon Kinberg, Nira Park, and Edgar Wright. The executive producers are George Linder, James Biddle, Rachel Prior, Audrey Chon, Pete Chiappetta, Anthony Tittanegro, and Andrew Lary.
Paramount plans the premiere of The survivor In cinemas for November 6 in Latin Americaand the November 14 in the United States.
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Source: https://cine3.com/glen-powell-nuevo-vistazo-reboot-the-running-man-edgar-wright/
