Colman Domingo has become the latest recruit for Edgar Wright’s take on Stephen King’s The Running Man.
Arriving towards the end of this year is Edgar Wright’s The Running Man, which will see the British director tackle what he has called his ‘dream project’, collaborating with a cast that only sounds more impressive with each addition.
Set in a dystopian future where America has become largely ghettoised, reality TV is the ‘opiate of the masses’, pumping out violent shows that distract viewers from the misery that surrounds them. The most popular show of all, The Running Man, charges a contestant with running and hiding for a month as hunters attempt to track them down and murder them.
Sing Sing star Colman Domingo has now been announced as another addition to the production which has been underway since November. According to Deadline, Domingo will be taking on one of the stories juiciest roles, the host of the game show. A host whose fiery rhetoric whips audiences across America into a frenzy of hatred for the pursued contestants, meaning that there is no safe harbour for them as the hunters seek to track them down and kill them, all in the name of good television.
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The actor will join Glen Powell, Josh Brolin and Love Lies Bleeding's Katy O’Brian in the cast. Powell plays Ben Richards, the running man of the title, while O’Brian will play another contestant on the show. Brolin is set to play ruthless network executive Jack Killian (in the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger adaptation, Killian was, of course, rewritten as the show’s host).
Before joining The Running Man, Domingo wrapped production on Michael, Antoine Fuqua’s Michael Jackson biopic that will see the actor play Jackson’s father. That’s coming this April.
The Running Man is set to arrive in November and we’re looking forward to seeing Wright put his unique spin on it, not to mention seeing what his film will say about the modern media landscape and the audiences that ingest it. We’ll bring you more on The Running Man as we hear it.
