Katy O’Brian (“Mission: Impossible 8,” “Love Lies Bleeding”) has been cast in Paramount Pictures’ “The Running Man” based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King, the studio announced on Friday. The film stars Glen Powell.
“Baby Driver” filmmaker Edgar Wright is attached to direct and co-write the story with his “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” collaborator Michael Bacall. Bacall wrote the script.
As TheWrap first reported, Powell will take the role filled by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1987 film based on King’s novel set in a dystopian future Los Angeles, where a framed police helicopter pilot is forced into a violent game show where convicts are hunted down by assassins with the promise of a pardon if they survive.