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Edgar Wright To Direct Stephen King’s ‘The Running Man’
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shoplifter
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OnionSnake
Banned
Still want to see his Ant-man footage :/
Null Persp
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A Elbereth Gilthoniel
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Everything faithful to King's work turns out shit. That should tell you something about his writing.
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Sidney Prescott
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Am I the only one that really likes Edgar Wright? I think this could be pretty good.
Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Baby Driver. All fantastic films to me.
I do like the original Running Man, but I would be curious about a remake. Likely won't be the same without Arnie, though.
Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Baby Driver. All fantastic films to me.
I do like the original Running Man, but I would be curious about a remake. Likely won't be the same without Arnie, though.
Rockmaninoff
Neo Member
I'm a huge fan of Edgar Wright. I hope he doesn't screw this up. The original Running Man is a classic!
poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
The original short story is pretty bad. Wonder if they will include the lead guy getting his entrails snagged on plane seat (?) during the finale.
bitbydeath
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Virt McPolygon
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Baby Driver and Scott Pilgrim made me want to vomit.
I love the original movie, but this is one of the weaker stories King wrote under pseudonym Richard Bachman. BTW, a movie based on The Long Walk is also supposed be in the works.
I love the original movie, but this is one of the weaker stories King wrote under pseudonym Richard Bachman. BTW, a movie based on The Long Walk is also supposed be in the works.
xrnzaaas
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Calling it now that it's going to be an innocent afroamerican running man (or a woman) hunted down in white nazi America. And the finale will take place at Trump Tower.
The book was fun to read, but as with most of King's work the original ending was shit. I really liked Arnie's movie even though it is kinda silly to watch.
The book was fun to read, but as with most of King's work the original ending was shit. I really liked Arnie's movie even though it is kinda silly to watch.
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Peggies
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The Hamburglar
Banned
Will suck like the time they remade Total Recall.
You don't remake Arnold. Period.
Looks like he has a plate of shit to eat, but he’s so high he doesn’t realise.
GeorgPrime
Banned
Nothing will ever beat my man Dynamo.
Now starring "Jack Black as Dynamo"
The Hamburglar
Banned
Well jacks desperate for work so he’ll take it
gunslikewhoa
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in before title change to "The Running Person"
Revolutionary
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Edgar Wright is one of the best directors in the biz. Only blight on his resume is his stint with Marvel. So yeah, I'm really looking forward to this.
FreedomOfSpeech
Banned
The running man! Let's see what they do with it, the original was quite enjoyable.
Red Crayon Aristocrat
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Everyone freaking out about this has never read the original Stephen King book like I have, it's completely different than the Arnold movie.
A remake more faithful to the Stephen King book is a worthy project if you ask me.
It's still weird to me though to think that Arnold Schwarzenegger of all people starred in a Stephen King adaption of all things, even if it was a very loose adaption (what would Arnold in a more typical Stephen King movie look like?)
A remake more faithful to the Stephen King book is a worthy project if you ask me.
It's still weird to me though to think that Arnold Schwarzenegger of all people starred in a Stephen King adaption of all things, even if it was a very loose adaption (what would Arnold in a more typical Stephen King movie look like?)
wondermega
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I usually wince at such news, but honestly as a kid I really enjoyed the original novel. It was extremely different than Arnold's film (which was also enjoyable, but in a completely different way) so I am absolutely interested to hear more about this. Total Recall and Robocop reboots had zero interest for me (perhaps if they reviewed well I may have checked them out) but this situation does seem different.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Never knew the movie was based off a Stephen King book. I read the novel plot and it's basically nothing like the movie except for a high level story of a dude on the run from a killer game show. Everything else is totally different.
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kunonabi
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The carrie remake was supposed to be more faithful too and that ended up being a load of bull. They always say this sort of thing and it almost never is.
Teletraan1
Banned
After watching Total Recall, Carrie, IT and a bunch of other movies that were supposed to be more inline with with source material and turned out worse my interest is sub zero, add in current year wokeness now plain zero.