Lee Pace has closed a deal to join Glen Powell, Josh Brolin and Love Lies Bleeding star Katy O’Brian in The Running Man, Paramount’s new adaptation of the Stephen King novel to be directed by Edgar Wright. The Cornetto Trilogy filmmaker also co-wrote the script with Michael Bacall. Production on the sci-fi project is due to shoot in London next year.

King’s Running Man, published in 1982 under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, is set in 2025 in an America under a totalitarian regime that uses violent game shows to placate the disenfranchised masses. The novel centres on one desperate man who needs money for his sick daughter and joins the most popular show, The Running Man, in which teams of killers hunt down contestants. The longer a contestant survives, the more money they are awarded.

Powell is playing the aforementioned “desperate man”, while Brolin stars as the ruthless producer of the show. O’Brian will play one of the contestants. Lee Pace is playing the brutal chief hunter for the network airing the game shows and tasked by the producer with tracking down Powell’s character.

Pace is best known for playing Ronan the Accuser in Guardians of the Galaxy and Captain Marvel. He more recently starred in Apple TV+’s sci-fi series Foundation, as well as in Bodies Bodies Bodies.

The film is being released by Paramount on November 21st, 2025.

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