Mixed-up killer game show runs out of steam

HOT Fuzz and Baby Driver director Edgar Wright is back in the director's chair four years on from his last movie, Last Night in Soho, but this time with a Stephen King adaptation.

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Glen Powell feels the heat in game show

Based on the 1982 novel of the same name, The Running Man was adapted into a 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger movie set in, would you believe, 2017.

But now, the acclaimed English filmmaker aims to stick much more closely to the source material.

Set in a dystopian near-future with an analogue aesthetic, Glen Powell's Ben Richards is a struggling working-class family man who cannot afford basic medicine for his sick daughter.