Even diehard followers of the 1987 Working Man, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, can’t be offended about this promising replace on its long-teased remake: Edgar Wright is still aboard to direct and produce a brand new model of the Stephen King novel, and now we all know it’ll star the in-demand Glen Powell (Twisters, Anybody However You).
The announcement was made at CinemaCon 2024. In accordance with Deadline, Wright—whose filmography consists of Shaun of the Useless, Sizzling Fuzz, The World’s Finish, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Child Driver, and Final Night time in Soho—may also produce together with Nira Park and Simon Kinberg (Deadpool 2, a number of X-Males movies).
Although this challenge was first announced in 2021, the timing for the replace is spot-on. King printed The Working Man in 1982 below his pseudonym Richard Bachman. It takes place in 2025, and follows a person who—with no different means to purchase drugs for his sick daughter—joins a massively fashionable actuality present placed on by a government-sponsored TV community. There’s a tempting money prize… if he can survive being hunted by a crew of assassins. The e book is likely to be over 40 years outdated, however these themes (outrageous well being care prices, audiences hungry for train-wreck TV, adapting something and every thing King ever wrote) really feel simply as pressing at the moment.
Are you excited to see what Wright and Powell do with The Working Man? There’s no launch date but, and 2025 feels awfully quickly… however that positive could be good.
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