Here’s Your First Look at Glen Powell’s Retro Take on The Running Man

Glen Powell is operating in the direction of superstardom. The Prime Gun: Maverick and Twisters main man has been making a reputation for himself these previous few years as a singular kind of everyman Hollywood megastar. And he’ll proceed that streak, it appears, within the newest Edgar Wright venture, a remake of the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, The Operating Man, which started filming this week in London.

In new Daily Mail photos from the set, Powell is wanting retro-futuristic as he makes his method by means of crowds of extras in entrance of the enduring Battersea Energy Station in London, England.

What’s Edgar Wright and Glen Powell’s The Operating Man About?

The Operating Man is predicated on a novel of the identical title, written by Stephen King beneath the pseudonym Richard Bachman in 1982. Beforehand tailored by director Paul Michael Glaser with Arnold Schwarzenegger within the lead function, the unique movie was a really unfastened adaptation that came about in 2017.

Nevertheless, Wright has acknowledged that his take — co-written alongside Michael Bacall — will hew nearer to the novel’s origins, that means it’s seemingly that this The Operating Man can be set through the yr 2025. Happening in a dystopian United States that’s proverbially operating on fumes and in shambles economically (because of the rising violence worldwide), the novel follows a person named Ben Richards who decides to take part within the titular actuality present, the place contestants win cash by evading a staff {of professional} hitmen despatched to kill them.

And, as if Powell wasn’t already busy sufficient, he’s apparently ending up his training whereas taking pictures The Operating Man. Whereas talking with IndieWire, the actor revealed that he’ll be leaping between the London manufacturing and the College of Texas campus with the intention to end his Spanish and Early American historical past diploma.

Glen Powell Has All the time Wished to Work with Edgar Wright

Powell has made a reputation for himself the previous few years enjoying main man-handsome, however character actor-complicated roles in a few of the greatest blockbusters of the previous few years. However the Scorching Fuzz and Shaun of the Lifeless director has lengthy been the person he’s wished to work with most.

Whereas talking with ScreenRant, Powell had heaps to say about his love of Wright’s model and this adaptation particularly:

“Edgar Wright has been one in all my favourite filmmakers for so long as I can bear in mind. I feel since Shaun of the Lifeless, I used to be like, ‘I can’t wait to work with this man.’ And he simply retains churning out good issues that solely his mind might concoct. … The Operating Man is one thing he’s so keen about, and we’re actually taking the Stephen King e-book and simply including quite a lot of enjoyable Edgar Wright taste to it, and it has been superior. That’s going to be a extremely enjoyable one; I’m tremendous enthusiastic about it.”

Within the new images, London’s iconic Battersea Energy Station may be seen being swarmed with extras in militaristic, police-style gear, in addition to 80s-inspired retro clothes. Previous automobiles from the period had been parked up alongside the constructing, garnering appears from passersby. Elsewhere on set, Wright and Powell may be seen laughing with crew members in between takes.

Now that the manufacturing is up and, ahem, operating, new images will seemingly proceed to floor and get us excited for no matter Wright and Powell have in retailer for us. Different actors confirmed to be tackling components within the movie embrace Lee Tempo, Josh Brolin, William H. Macy, Michael Cera, and Emilia Jones.