Feb. 20 (UPI) — “Hot Fuzz” and “Baby Driver” filmmaker Edgar Wright is set to helm a movie based on Stephen King‘s story, “The Running Man.”
The new Paramount Pictures film is expected to be a faithful adaptation of the 1982 dystopian novel King penned under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.
Wright will direct the movie and is co-writing it with Michael Bacall.
No casting has been announced yet.
The futuristic tale is about a television game show in which contestants are hunted and killed.
It was previously adapted as a 1987 film directed by Paul Michael Glaser and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
