The rest of us normal people have to wait a couple of weeks before we get a chance to see Edgar Wright’s new adaptation of Stephen King’s The Running Man. This seems especially unfair because it feels like everybody else has already seen it. Stephen King has seen it. Arnold Schwarzenegger has seen it. Now it turns out a bunch of high-profile directors have also seen it.
According to World of Reel, a special screening of The Running Man was held on the Paramount lot last week, and it contained a who’s who of A-list directors, including Taika Waititi, Jordan Peele, Ti West, Joseph Kosinski, Barry Jenkins, J.T. Mollner, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, Joe Dante, and Walter Hill. At least one of those directors has confirmed seeing the film, as Phl Lord tweeted about the movie saying…
