The outlet also reports that Edgar Wright was courted with the idea of developing The Running Man after previously naming the 1987 adaptation as the one movie he would remake if he could choose any.
Paramount Pictures has tapped Baby Driver helmer Edgar Wright to direct a new adaptation of the Stephen King novel The Running Man.
Already, news of Wright taking the wheel for a new adaptation of The Running Man is exciting fans of the filmmaker.
Originally published in 1982 under King’s pseudonym Richard Bachman, The Running Man was famously adapted into a movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1987.