Glen Powell has been tapped to lead Edgar Wright’s reimagining of Stephen King’s dystopian sci-fi contemporary The Working Man.
First published in 1982 below King’s Richard Bachman pseudonym, the tale is living in 2025 and follows protagonist Ben Richards as he becomes a contestant in a actuality bid known as The Working Man. The contestants, allowed to urge anyplace within the field, are chased by the present public – who accumulate a huge amount of money within the occasion that they tackle to hunt and execute them.
A free adaptation of the unconventional hit theaters in 1987, directed by Paul Michael Glaser and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as Ben Richards. No matter blended opinions, the movie therefore accomplished cult traditional feature. Wright’s adaptation modified into supplied abet in 2021, with Michael Bacall living to pen the script.
“I adore the movie nonetheless I adore the e book more, and to boot they didn’t in actual fact adapt the e book. Even as a teen once I saw the Schwarzenegger movie I modified into adore, ‘Oh, this isn’t adore the e book in any appreciate!’ And I agree with, ‘No one’s carried out that e book,'” Wright mentioned final One year, including that the e book “is something crying out to be tailored.”
Powell’s large establish rose after his flip as Lieutenant Jake “Hangman” Seresin in Joseph Kosinski’s vastly winning action flick Prime Gun: Maverick, which served as a mutter sequel to the 1986 movie. The actor moreover starred alongside Sydney Sweeney within the romcom Anybody But You, and would possibly perchance well per chance light also be viewed subsequent in Richard Linklater’s Hit Man – which he co-wrote and produced, to boot to Twisters, a standalone sequel to the 1996 effort flick Twister.
Hit Man is living to, successfully, hit Netflix on May 24, with Twisters living to commence in theaters on July 19. Edgar Wright’s version of The Working Man does no longer yet personal a commence date. For more, take a look at out our list of basically the most thrilling upcoming motion footage in 2024 and beyond.