This campy, homoerotic ’80s sci-fi is getting a remake with a super-queer cast
Squid Games to The Hunger Games.So it’s fitting, then, that for his next film, director Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz, Baby Driver) is adapting the ’80s novel The Running Man—written by Stephen King under the pseudonym Richard Bachman—a dystopian action-adventure set in….
2025.In it, due to a global economic collapse, America has descended into a totalitarian police state (sound familiar?) where the government controls media and censors all other art (yeesh, this is really hitting close to home, huh?).
The most popular TV program is the titular reality show, where enemies of the state earn their freedom if they can survive a month-long televised hunt.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.Even if the story takes a cynical view of our so-near-it’s-practically-here future, at least the future’s looking pretty queer?Newly minted superstar Glen Powell (Twisters, Hit Man) will play the protagonist, Ben Richards, who volunteers for the game in order to make money for his family.
And, per the latest announcement, out Oscar nominee Colman Domingo has joined the cast as the charismatic host of “The Running Man,” the show within the movie.Domingo’s far from the only LGBTQ+ actor lending their talents to the film.
