William H. Macy and Michael Cera join ‘The Running Man’

(Left) William H. Macy in ‘Fargo’. Photo: Gramercy Pictures. (Center) Michael Cera in ‘Superbad’. Photo: Sony Pictures Releasing. (Right) Emilia Jones in ‘CODA’. Photo: Apple Original Films.

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William H. Macy, Michael Cera and Emilia Jones are joining ‘The Running Man’
Glen Powell is starring alongside Josh Brolin, Lee Pace, Katy O’Brian and Daniel Ezra.
Edgar Wright co-wrote and will direct the Stephen King adaptation.

With production about to start on Edgar Wright’s ‘The Running Man,’ we’re learning about more names who will be joining Glen Powell in the movie.

“It is the year 2019. “The Running Man” is a deadly game no one has ever survived. But Schwarzenegger has yet to play.”

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William H. Macy, Michael Cera and ‘CODA’s Emilia Jones are the latest recruits, according to The Hollywood Reporter. They join the likes of Josh Brolin, Katy O’Brian, Lee Pace, Daniel Ezra and Karl Glusman.

This is, of course, a fresh adaptation of Stephen King’s classic dystopian tale which was famously previously brought to screens by ‘Starsky and Hutch’ actor-turned-director Paul Michael Glaser in 1987 with Arnold Schwarzenegger starring.

Wright will start the cameras rolling next week in London. He wrote the script with his ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ collaborator Michael Bacall.

What’s the story of ‘The Running Man’?

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Captain Benjamin “Ben” Richards in ‘The Running Man.’

‘The Running Man,’ which King published in 1982 under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, was set in 2025 in an America under a totalitarian regime that uses violent game shows to placate the disenfranchised masses.

The story centered on one desperate man, needing money for his gravely sick daughter, who joins the most popular show, ‘The Running Man,’ in which teams of killers hunt down contestants. The longer that a contestant survives, the more money that person makes. But as the game show’s producers and killers will find out, our conflicted hero will break all the rules and expose the show’s dark secrets.

Powell is playing the main character, while O’Brian would be one of the other contestants.

What do we know about the new recruits for the movie?

Josh Brolin as Gurney Halleck in Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures’ action adventure ‘Dune: Part Two,’ a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Niko Tavernise. Copyright: © 2023 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Hollywood Reporter brings word that Macy will be playing a man who helps Powell’s Richards when he’s on the run.

Brolin, meanwhile, stars as the ruthless producer of the game show, and Pace is the brutal chief hunter tracking down Powell.

Cera (who starred in ‘Scott Pilgrim’ for the director) will be a naïve rebel who tries to help the desperate man, while Jones is playing a privileged woman blind to the oppression of the government.

Ezra and Glusman’s roles have yet to be revealed.