The Running Man: Edgar Wright's Action-Thriller Headed to New York Comic Con

The Running Man is coming to New York Comic Con.

IGN tin exclusively denote that Paramount Pictures’ sheet for The Running Man volition beryllium held from 11:00am-12:00pm ET connected Friday, October 10 connected the Empire Stage successful Javits Center. The authoritative sheet statement follows:

“Writer/Director Edgar Wright joins stars Glen Powell and Lee Pace for an exclusive look astatine this fall’s adrenaline-fueled, action-packed theatrical event. Adapted from the acclaimed champion seller by Stephen King, The Running Man is lone successful theatres this November.”

We besides person 3 caller exclusive photos from the movie that we tin stock with you. They tin beryllium seen successful the slideshow below.

A dystopian thriller acceptable successful the adjacent future, The Running Man follows Ben Richards (Glen Powell), a “Runner” successful TV’s top-rated world amusement wherever helium tin triumph a luck – provided helium tin past 30 days evading the litany of nonrecreational assassins hunting him.

Ben, a moving people everyman, is lone participating successful the deadly contention due to the fact that helium needs wealth to assistance prevention his sick child. His each determination televised, Ben becomes a instrumentality favourite and past a menace to an full strategy that’s addicted to watching radical tally for their lives.

The Running Man is 1 of Stephen King’s earliest books, penned nether his then-pseudonym Richard Bachman. It was antecedently adapted into a 1987 enactment movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Edgar Wright promoted The Running Man earlier this twelvemonth astatine CinemaCon wherever the footage shown revealed the differences betwixt his movie and the Schwarzenegger film.

In the ‘87 version, Ben’s pursuit was contained to 1 circumstantial country whereas successful Wright’s film, Ben has to evade Hunters crossed the full U.S.

Wright’s movie is besides person to Stephen King’s publication The Running Man than the 1987 movie was, making the show’s enforcement shaper (Josh Brolin’s Dan Killian) and big (Colman Domingo’s Bobby Thompson) 2 abstracted characters arsenic King had intended.

The Running Man opens November 7, 2025.