Although we’re still waiting for Edgar Wright Last night in Soho, dremoved by the general pandemic of all, to eventually reach theaters, The Spark Brothers the director just added a new movie to his list always packed with future projects: A new adaptation of Stephen King’s spectacular satire runner.
runner it has, of course, already been adapted to the screen before. In 1987, Paul Michael Glaser reimagined Ben Richards, the stingy man of the book Arnold Schwarzenegger to the best murder, and transformed the premise of the original– launched under the pseudonym of King Richard Bachman, where all his darkest impulses from the 1980s tended to find shopping—From a nationwide manhunt, in a series of gladiatorial matches with super-robbers, played by a variety of professional wrestlers, former footballers and a single opera singer. On Deadline, Wright’s new screenplay, which is set to be written with his Scott Pilgrim collaborator Michael Bacall, will cut much closer to King’s book, a bloody look at a dystopian world in which healthcare is auctioned off through game shows and life is extremely cheap – even if you are paid $ 100 per hour, you can evade the authorities who were allowed to shoot their competitors / prey in sight.
And, we’ll be honest: There are two major questions raised for us through this project, about which Wright would have reached an agreement with Paramount right now to develop and then direct. The first being, what the hell is it the writer-director Will I handle the original ending of the book, a climax as bleak and destructive as King ever wrote? And the second is the problem how Wright is expected to take his film out the shadow of Glaser’s brilliant touch of good faith in the film Schwarzenegger: CA sting Family feud host Richard Dawson to unleash his own endlessly restrained smiling anger image as a game show impresario Damon Killian. And, look: nobody says Edgar Wright It has to throw them to Dawson Family feud the great successor, Steve Harvey, in a similar role. Balso, THEIf you start thinking about this idea, you will not be able to stop. This is your blessing now, and your curse.