Sorry, Anyone but you fans, but you’ll have to wait a little longer for a Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell reunion project. Euphoria The actor is not expected to appear alongside Powell in the upcoming remake of Stephen King’s novel. The running man.
Last week, insider Daniel Richtman reported that Sweeney was being considered for a role in director Edgar Wright’s film. Running Man restart. Unfortunately, Collider has since has learned that the actor will not appear in the upcoming adaptation of King. While the casting was never officially confirmed by Wright or Paramount, it appears to fit with Sweeney’s upcoming schedule. She’s set to begin filming a biopic about famed fighter Christy Martin in the near future, while The running man Filming won’t begin until October. That would have given Sweeney plenty of time to wrap up his role in the King adaptation before early 2025, when HBO will begin filming Season 3 of Euphoria.
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Although a Anyone but you reunion at The running man That doesn’t seem to be happening, Sweeney previously shared that the two actors plan to work together again. “We dream of a lot of different ideas [for Anyone But You 2]” Sweeney said People in March 2024. “We haven’t really defined what we want to do yet. But we’re just dreaming up a bunch of different things and seeing what works best.”
Sweeney and Powell remain among Hollywood’s most in-demand actors, with both attached to multiple projects in development. The running man is expected to be Powell’s next project after he finishes filming Huntington. The second adaptation of the 1982 novel after the 1987 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, The running man is set in a dystopian future where Powell’s character, Ben Richards, competes on a game show where he is hunted by an elite team of hitmen to win money to save his dying daughter. For every hour he manages to stay alive and avoid capture, he will earn a $100 bonus. If the contestant wins the game by surviving 30 days, they will win the grand prize of $1 billion. Michael Bacall is writing the screenplay for the reboot.
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With filming set to begin in London in October, Powell has begun teasing The running man during interviews for his latest film Tornadoes“We’ve been going back and forth on the script, and it’s so much fun. The world that Edgar has developed on this thing is just outrageous,” he said in July 2024. “It’s so good. And really, we’re both huge fans of the Stephen King book, and it’s going to be a great character. I’m so excited about it.”
Wright The running man The remake does not yet have a release date. The 1987 adaptation, meanwhile, is available to stream on Paramount+.
Source: Collider
The running man
In a dystopian America, a wrongfully convicted cop gets his chance at freedom when he is forced to participate in a game show where convicts, runners, must fight killers for their freedom.
- Director
- Paul Michael Glaser
- Release date
- November 13, 1987
- Duration
- 1 hour 41 minutes
- Main genre
- Action
- Production company
- TAFT Entertainment Pictures, Keith Barish Productions, Home Box Office (HBO)