As promised, the primary trailer for director Edgar Wright’s tackle Stephen King’s novel The Working Man is right here — and it appears to be like like a playful throwback to ‘80s motion motion pictures.
The story facilities on a struggling man named Ben Richards, performed by Glen Powell, who’s a contestant on a mega-popular TV sport present the place he’s hunted by skilled killers, and earns more cash the longer he stays alive. The purpose is to final a complete 30 days unscathed, which generally doesn’t occur. Oh, and principally each citizen is attempting to catch him as properly. Regardless of the darkish premise, the trailer has a reasonably lighthearted tone, combined in with the entire loss of life and destruction.
Along with being helmed by Wright — who’s best-known for motion pictures like Shaun of the Lifeless, Child Driver, and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World — the brand new film additionally contains a fairly large and notable forged. That features Powell within the lead function, alongside Katy O’Brian, Daniel Ezra, Karl Glusman, Josh Brolin, Lee Tempo, Jayme Lawson, Michael Cera, Emilia Jones, William H. Macy, David Zayas, Sean Hayes, and Colman Domingo.
After all, this isn’t the primary adaptation of the e-book. It follows Paul Michael Glaser’s movie from 1987, which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and had one thing of a post-apocalyptic-meets-American Gladiators vibe.
The most recent model of The Working Man additionally isn’t the one dystopic King adaptation within the works proper now. The marginally slower-paced novel The Lengthy Stroll can also be coming to theaters this yr from Starvation Video games director Francis Lawrence. It premieres on September twelfth.
The Working Man is scheduled to hit theaters on November seventh.
