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GLEN POWELL
Newsweek Europe
|November 21, 2025
GLEN POWELL KNOWS HOW UNIQUE THIS MOMENT IS. “I’M REALLY GETTING TO learn from some of the people that have inspired me.”
This time he’s teaming up with director Edgar Wright for The Running Man, based on Stephen King’s novel. “Rarely do you get a filmmaker of his level on an action movie like this. In addition to being high octane and life and death, it’s also just a fun blast of a ride. It’s just a full meal. I love it.” Powell plays Ben Richards in the futuristic tale of a man who “signs up for this game show that literally there’s a survival rate of zero,” to win money for his family. “One of the coolest compliments I’ve gotten is...an email from Stephen King that basically said, ‘I feel like [this is] this generation's Die Hard.’” Li
This story is from the November 21, 2025 edition of Newsweek Europe.
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