Director Edgar Wright, who has worked on projects such as Baby Drive, Grindhouse and Kind of Tough Pointers, will direct a new adaptation of Stephen King's science fiction novel The Running Man, reports Deadline.

He will also write the script for the tape in collaboration with Michael Bacall.

Previously, filmmakers collaborated together on the project "Scott Pilgrim Against All".

The film will be released under the auspices of Paramount Pictures.

Simon Kinberg (Deadpool), Naira Park (Baby Drive) and Audrey Chon (Poltergeist) are involved in the production of the tape.

The cast is still unknown.

Stephen King published The Running Man in 1982 under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.

The book is set in the United States in 2025.

According to the plot, the country is faced with a severe economic crisis, and the level of violence in society is rapidly growing.

The protagonist Ben Richards, in search of money, becomes a member of the popular violent television game.

According to the rules, he needs to hide from the killers for a month.

If he survives, he will receive a big prize.

Before him, no one has ever succeeded.

The book was already filmed in 1987.

It was directed by Paul Michael Glaser and starred by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

However, this adaptation turned out to be significantly far from the original and included borrowings from other famous paintings.

In addition, Stephen King was dissatisfied with the fact that Schwarzenegger was approved for the role of Richards, since, according to the writer, he was the complete opposite of a character - a real outsider.

As a result, the work, which was conceived as a dark novel, turned into a spectacular show on the screen.

King demanded that his name not be mentioned in the advertising campaign of the picture.

  • © Shot from the movie "The Running Man"

Nevertheless, the film was well received by both viewers and film critics.

His ratings on Rotten Tomatoes were 60% and 64%, respectively.

At the box office, the tape earned $ 38 million with a budget of $ 27 million.

The creators of the new picture promise that it will not become a remake of the tape with Schwarzenegger and will more closely follow the original source.

Most screened writer

Stephen King is considered the most screened writer alive today.

In total, about three hundred film and television projects were shot based on his works.

Among them are such popular films as "The Shawshank Redemption", "The Green Mile", "The Shining", "It", "1408", "Mist", "The Dark Tower", "Doctor Sleep" and many others.

Currently, there are about 20 more new projects in the works, which will be based on the work of Stephen King.

Director, screenwriter and producer JJ Abrams is preparing the Overlook series for the HBO Max video service, which will tell the story of the grim hotel featured in Stanley Kubrick's cult film The Shining.

A full-length film adaptation of the story of King and his son Joe Hill "Full Throttle" will be released on the same site.

In the center of the plot will be a gang of bikers involved in the murder, trying to escape pursuit on an empty track in the middle of the desert.

In the summer of 2021, the Apple TV + video service is expected to premiere a series based on King's bestseller Lizzie's Story starring Julianne Moore.

She plays the widow Lizzie Landon, who two years after the death of her husband, a famous writer, finds herself at the center of a series of disturbing events.

They make the heroine remember some of the things related to her marriage that she had long ago thrown out of her head.

The project is directed by the winner of the Berlin Film Festival Pablo Larrain, who worked on the films "Jackie" and "No".

The ten-part Chapelwaite is based on Stephen King's story “The Settlement of Jerusalem”, published in 1978.

The work is written in the epistolary genre and is a correspondence between two friends.

The series will unfold in the 1850s.

Captain Charles Boone, after the death of his wife, moves with three children to a small fictional town in Maine.

He soon learns about the dark secrets associated with the history of his family.

The main roles in the series will be played by Adrian Brody ("The Pianist", "The Grand Budapest Hotel") and Emily Hampshire ("Mom!", "Boy in a Girl").