'The Running Man' Director Edgar Wright and Author Stephen King Finally Meet: 'So Thankful for This Moment in Time'

'The Running Man' director Edgar Wright and author Stephen King finally meet: 'So thankful for this moment in time'

Wright wrote that the meeting occurred just "days before" he put the finishing touches on his film adaptation. Edgar Wright/Instagram Stephen King and Edgar WrightWith a month to go before his film adaptation of The Running Man hits theaters, director Edgar Wright had a dream come true.On Wednesday, the filmmaker took to Instagram to share that he had finally met the "King of Horror" and novelist behind the dystopian thriller on which his movie …

Stephen King says The Running Man from Edgar Wright is "Die Hard for our time"

Director Edgar Wright has made it no secret that, even as a fan of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s movie, he was interested in making The Running Man closer to Stephen King’s original novel. Wright explained, “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 Schwarzenegger film I was like, ‘Oh, this isn’t like the book at all!’ And I think, ‘Nobody’s [done] that book.’ So when that came u…

The Running Man – Second Trailer

THE RUNNING MAN IS IN UK CINEMAS NOVEMBER 14   Paramount Pictures Presents In Association with Domain Entertainment A Kinberg Genre / Complete Fiction Production An Edgar Wright Film “THE RUNNING MAN”   SYNOPSIS  In a near-future society, The Running Man is the top-rated show on television—a deadly competition where contestants, known as Runners, must survive 30 days while being hunted by professional assassins, with every move broadcast to a bl…