Edgar Wright has taken on no easy feat: He’s bringing a novel accurate adaptation of Stephen King’s The Running Man to us. Co-written with Michael Bacall, the film stars Glen Powell as Ben Richards and, from the trailer, does look more like the novel!
At New York Comic Con, I was lucky enough to talk with Wright on the press line about the film and the adaptation process and one of the things I asked him about was how to include important aspects of a character’s journey into the film while not being able to include every single thing about them. For me, there is a chapter that informed so much about Ben’s love for his family but it also happens a great deal into the novel. Meaning, that information has to be played out in different ways.
