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The Love Lies Bleeding and Mission: Impossible 8 actress Katy O’Brian is joining Glen Powell in Paramount’s redux of The Running Man helmed by Edgar Wright.

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00:00The Love, Life, Bleeding and Mission Impossible 8 actress Katie O'Brien is joining Glenn
00:05Powell in Paramount's redux of The Running Man, helmed by Edgar Wright.
00:09Edgar has co-written the script with Michael, Simon Kinberg, Neera Park and will also be
00:14producing the scene.
00:16The film will be released on November 21, 2025.
00:19According to an insider with the knowledge of the project, the new movie is a more faithful
00:23adaptation of the novel of the same name by Stephen King that the author first published
00:28under the pseudonym Richard Batchman.
00:31The story centered on one desperate man needing money for his sick daughter who joins the
00:36most popular show, The Running Man, in which teams of killers hunt down contestants.
00:41The longer that a contestant survives, the more money will the person make.
00:45But as the game show's producers and killers will find out, this desperate man will break
00:49all the rules and expose the show's dark secrets.
00:52Revealed by The Hollywood Reporter, Powell will take the role filled by Arnold in the
00:561987 film where the framed police helicopter pilot is also forced into that violent game
01:02show.
01:03O'Brien will be portraying the role of one of the characters of the same show.
01:08Most recently, O'Brien starred in Twisters alongside Powell and also starred opposite
01:12Kristen Stewart in Sundance's breakout Love Lies Bleeding.
01:16Next up, she will be seen in Mission Impossible 8.

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