Edgar Wright's reboot of The Ruไnning Ma🐽n is still a go – and the filmmaker says it'll be a faithful adaptation of Stephen King's original novel.

"The Running Man is something that is in active development," Wright told the . "Why is that interesting to me? It’s like, I like the film but I like the book more, and they didn’t really adapt the book. Even as a teenager when I saw the Sc🙈hwarzenegger film I was like, 'Oh, this isn’t like the book at all!' And I think, 'Nobody’s done that book.'"

The dystopian sci-fi novel was first published in 1982 under King's Richard Bachman persona. Set in the year 2025, the story follows protagonist Ben Richards as he becomes a contestant in a reality show called The Running Man. The contestants, allowed to run anywhere in the world, are ch൩ased by the general publ📖ic – who win a huge sum of money if they kill them.

A very loose adaptation of the novel hit theaters in 1987, directed by Paul Michael Glaser and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as Ben Richards. Wrig𓂃ht's adaptation was announced back in 2021, with Michael Bacall set to pen the script.

Continu🎶ed Wright: "So when that came up, I was thinking, and Simon Kinberg says, 'Do you have any interest in ‘The Running Man?' I said, 'You know what? I’ve often thought that that book is something crying out to be adapted.' Now, that doesn’t mean that it’s easy! But it’s something that we are working on, yes. I’ll tell you that much."

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