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Wright wrote that the meeting occurred just "days before" he put the finishing touches on his film adaptation.
The Running Man author Stephen King meets remake director Edgar Wright for first time: 'So thankful for this moment in time'
Wright wrote that the meeting occurred just "days before" he put the finishing touches on his film adaptation.
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With a month to go before his film adaptation of *The Running Man *hits theaters, director Edgar Wright had a dream come true.
On Wednesday, the filmmaker took to Instagram to share that he had *finally* met the "King of Horror" and novelist behind the dystopian thriller on which his movie is based, Stephen King.
"It is a dream come true to finally meet the King Of Horror," Wright captioned a post featuring a photo of him and King embracing. "I have been reading @stephenking books since my early teens, including his 1982 Richard Bachman novel 'The Running Man'' So what a thrill to finally meet him in the flesh having, just days before, put the finishing touches to my own film adaptation of his work."
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Glen Powell in 'The Running Man'.
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Wright shared that King has been a "kind supporter" of his work since the early aughts, when the writer praised his 2004 zombie comedy *Shaun of the Dead,* starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, giving the film a "rave of a pull-quote."
"We have emailed over the subsequent years, mostly about rock music, until the opportunity arose to actual direct a Stephen King adaptation. What an honour it has been," Wright concluded his post. "So thankful for this moment in time."
On the second slide of the Instagram post, Wright shared a screenshot of King's *Running Man *review posted on X. "I've seen it and it's fantastic," King wrote of the upcoming film, calling it the "*Die Hard *for our time. A bipartisan thrill ride."
Wright co-wrote his adaptation of King's novel with Michael Bacall and produced alongside Nira Park and Simon Kinberg. It's the second big-screen adaptation of King's novel after the 1987 Paul Michael Glaser film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Wright's *The Running Man* stars Glen Powell as Ben Richards, an out-of-work father struggling to make ends meet in a future dystopian America. His daughter is sick, and he desperately needs money for her care, so he agrees to go on the deadly titular game show, where contestants — a.k.a. runners — have to run for their lives while everyone in the country tries to kill them.
"I think the journey of Ben Richards and me, there's definitely overlap, which is as a public figure, especially now, I would say the truth has probably never mattered less — we're in a TikTokification age where everyone's trying to gain followers or after their own agendas," Powell told ** in our latest cover story. "People do whatever it takes to get what they need and say whatever they need to say to get what they need… You can't blame anyone, but it is just the system that we live in."
Glen Powell on how Tom Cruise made sure he 'survived' grueling 'The Running Man' shoot
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Colman Domingo previews 'rollercoaster ride' of 'The Running Man'
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Richards isn't the only contestant introduced to the viewing public by Colman Domingo's Bobby T, the extravagantly dressed host of *The Running Man* TV show in the film. The movie features two other "runners," played by Martin Herlihy from the Please Don't Destroy comedy team and Katy O'Brian, who was recently seen in *Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning*.
The actor compared the real-life consequences of fame to Ben's journey in *Running Man*, in which the character realizes that he's just signed his life away to a system designed for him to fail.
"And even more so, you're set up to become the villain so that the world cheers for you to lose," Powell said. "I find it always fascinating in terms of our news cycle, how quickly news spreads and how quickly we're here to define heroes and villains, and how odd that there's no nuance or fact-checking. It's rapid headlines, almost to an overwhelming degree, which is very dangerous. And you start to see that pack mentality of how the internet works. And we very much play on that in *The Running Man*."
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*The Running Man*, which also stars Josh Brolin, Lee Pace, William H. Macy, Katy O'Brian, Emilia Jones, Michael Cera, and more, hits theaters Nov. 14.**
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