As promised, the primary trailer for director Edgar Wright’s tackle Stephen King’s novel The Working Man is right here — and it seems like a playful throwback to ‘80s motion films.
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 extra money the longer he stays alive. The aim is to final a complete 30 days unscathed, which usually doesn’t occur. Oh, and mainly each citizen is making an attempt to catch him as nicely. Regardless of the darkish premise, the trailer has a reasonably lighthearted tone, combined in with the entire demise and destruction.
Along with being helmed by Wright — who’s best-known for films like Shaun of the Lifeless, Child Driver, and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World — the brand new film additionally contains a fairly large and notable solid. That features Powell within the lead position, 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.
In fact, this isn’t the primary adaptation of the ebook. 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 cell phone model of The Working Man additionally isn’t the one dystopic King adaptation within the works proper now. The slightly slower-paced novel The Long Walk can be coming to theaters this 12 months from Starvation Video games director Francis Lawrence. It premieres on September twelfth.
The Working Man is scheduled to hit theaters on November seventh.