Glen Powell becomes an action movie star: details about the film «The Running Man» 2025
2 july 2025 в 17:13
Action heroes are not just alive — they dominate the big screen, and Glen Powell has become one of Hollywood’s rising stars after successes with films like «Top Gun: Maverick», - «Killer», - and «Tornado». With his latest project, «The Running Man», - on the horizon, fans of the original 1987 film with Arnold Schwarzenegger are curious to see how it will turn out.
Hollywood Life has all the details about the adaptation of «The Running Man» 2025 here.
The film follows Ben Richards (Powell), who joins a game show called «The Running Man», - where participants are pursued by people called «hunters» who are hired to kill them. His motivation? To help his family escape poverty and a health crisis. But the game show is not ordinary; there are almost no rules to follow, and Ben must avoid death as millions around him try to kill him.
Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Glen hinted that his character «wants to figure out the world» and added: «It's a different show, you know. Edgar [the director] always calls it 'Bad Mood Glen.' He says, 'Hey, I need more Bad Mood Glen!'»
The actor also noted that his friend, former co-star, and mentor Tom Cruise was his «first call» when he got the role. After all, who else but Tom would know about action scenes and stunts?
«I said, 'Tom, how do you do this?'» Glen recalled. «I spent about two and a half hours on the phone with him. I took a million notes. I knew I was going to have to put my body on the line in this movie. He told me everything to worry about, not worry about, and how to entertain the audience at the highest level. [He said]: 'Don't just put your life on the line, make sure all the elements around you cinematically underscore the experience.' Because [you] can jump off a bridge because of an explosion, if you don’t frame it right, if it’s not synchronized correctly, the audience might not even know it’s you doing it».
In addition to Glen, the rest of the cast of «The Running Man» includes Josh Brolin, Coleman Domingo, Lee Pace, Jame Lawson, Michael Cera, Emilia Jones, William H. Macy, David Zayas, Katie O’Brien, Daniel Ezra, Carl Glusman, and Sean Hayes.
Like any action movie trailer, the teaser for «The Running Man» is filled with infernos, fights, and screams. In the style of «The Hunger Games», - viewers see Glen agreeing to be hunted by everyone around him for 30 days to win the game show and help his family.
While Glen’s character, Ben, hunts for the entertainment of viewers, the audience hears people in the trailer shouting, «Hunt him down!»
Paramount Pictures will release «The Running Man» on November 7, 2025 in theaters.
The famous 1982 book by Stephen King is set in the dystopian United States of 2025, where the game show «The Running Man» coincides with the nation’s economic collapse and normalized violence
Hollywood Life has all the details about the adaptation of «The Running Man» 2025 here.
The film follows Ben Richards (Powell), who joins a game show called «The Running Man», - where participants are pursued by people called «hunters» who are hired to kill them. His motivation? To help his family escape poverty and a health crisis. But the game show is not ordinary; there are almost no rules to follow, and Ben must avoid death as millions around him try to kill him.
Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Glen hinted that his character «wants to figure out the world» and added: «It's a different show, you know. Edgar [the director] always calls it 'Bad Mood Glen.' He says, 'Hey, I need more Bad Mood Glen!'»
The actor also noted that his friend, former co-star, and mentor Tom Cruise was his «first call» when he got the role. After all, who else but Tom would know about action scenes and stunts?
«I said, 'Tom, how do you do this?'» Glen recalled. «I spent about two and a half hours on the phone with him. I took a million notes. I knew I was going to have to put my body on the line in this movie. He told me everything to worry about, not worry about, and how to entertain the audience at the highest level. [He said]: 'Don't just put your life on the line, make sure all the elements around you cinematically underscore the experience.' Because [you] can jump off a bridge because of an explosion, if you don’t frame it right, if it’s not synchronized correctly, the audience might not even know it’s you doing it».
In addition to Glen, the rest of the cast of «The Running Man» includes Josh Brolin, Coleman Domingo, Lee Pace, Jame Lawson, Michael Cera, Emilia Jones, William H. Macy, David Zayas, Katie O’Brien, Daniel Ezra, Carl Glusman, and Sean Hayes.
Like any action movie trailer, the teaser for «The Running Man» is filled with infernos, fights, and screams. In the style of «The Hunger Games», - viewers see Glen agreeing to be hunted by everyone around him for 30 days to win the game show and help his family.
While Glen’s character, Ben, hunts for the entertainment of viewers, the audience hears people in the trailer shouting, «Hunt him down!»
Paramount Pictures will release «The Running Man» on November 7, 2025 in theaters.
The famous 1982 book by Stephen King is set in the dystopian United States of 2025, where the game show «The Running Man» coincides with the nation’s economic collapse and normalized violence
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