{"id":980461,"date":"2025-10-13T12:41:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/?p=980461"},"modified":"2025-10-13T12:45:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:45:01","slug":"the-running-man-glen-powell-reveals-personal-blessing-from-arnold-schwarzenegger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/the-running-man-glen-powell-reveals-personal-blessing-from-arnold-schwarzenegger\/","title":{"rendered":"The Running Man: Glen Powell Reveals Personal Blessing from Arnold Schwarzenegger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Long before he starred in <em>The Running Man<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/glen-powell\/\">Glen Powell<\/a> had a professional relationship with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/arnold-schwarzenegger\/\">Arnold Schwarzenegger<\/a>. Kind of. See, way back in 2014, back in a time before <em>Top Gun: Maverick<\/em> or working with Richard Linklater, Powell appeared in <em>The Expendables 3<\/em>, an old school action flick which starred the likes of Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, and Wesley Snipes. And as Powell confided to a New York Comic Con audience over the weekend, he nicked tricks of the trade by watching those icons on set, including with how Sly would do some quick weight reps before shooting a scene\u2014a tip Powell applies to this day on films like <em>Twisters <\/em>and now <em>Running Man<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, while Powell and director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/edgar-wright\/\">Edgar Wright<\/a> have been open that they will homage the 1987 cult classic <em>Running Man <\/em>in their reimagining (even as the new film steers much closer to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/stephen-king\/\">Stephen King<\/a>\u2019s bleak source material), they have remained mum about how they got in contact with the former Governiator. So it seemed like an appropriate thing to ask when we caught up with the new Ben Richards for a quick chat at NYCC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\r\n\n\t\t<div class=\"ad-dog__cnx-container\"><script id=\"0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796\">\n\t\t\tcnx.cmd.push(function() {\n\t\t\t\tcnx({\n\t\t\t\t\tplayerId: \"106e33c0-3911-473c-b599-b1426db57530\",\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t}).render(\"0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796\");\n\t\t\t});\n\t\t<\/script><\/div>\n\t\n\n\n<p>\u201cPatrick Schwarzenegger\u2019s a great buddy of mine, and Arnold and I worked together on <em>Expendables 3<\/em>,\u201d Powell says with a grin. \u201cSo I said \u2018Hey, do you think I can talk to your dad before we get going on this thing? Just to get his perspective.\u2019 Because you never want to step into someone else\u2019s running shoes without understanding how they feel about it, because everybody feels different about how to occupy that character. He made that character iconic, so I wanted to make sure I got his blessing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Powell continues, \u201cHe was so supportive of our movie. He really talked about the process of how they made that movie, how we can kind of improve, why he loved the book so much. He\u2019s really just an open book and really a cheerleader.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Schwarzenegger has yet to see the finished film, Powell teased earlier during the panel there is easter egg homage to the original big screen Richards in the new movie, complete with it being revealed in the movie\u2019s alternate future, Schwarzenegger is now on the hundred dollar bill. Apparently the former Governor of California approved a great deal, telling Wright \u201cI\u2019m glad you made me so valuable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t wait to show him this movie, he\u2019s so excited,\u201d Powell adds to us, \u201cand I think it\u2019s been amazing to go on that journey of going from being like 13th on the call sheet for <em>Expendables 3 <\/em>to now getting to reprise one of Arnold\u2019s greats.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet one of the main reasons he\u2019s making this particular film is to specifically work with Edgar Wright. As Powell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/the-running-man-edgar-wright-glen-powell-stephen-king\/\">previously told us<\/a> in the latest issue of <em>Den of Geek <\/em>magazine, he was a fan of Wright since before he moved to Los Angeles in 2008 to pursue acting. He elaborated on that over the weekend by telling us how much Wright\u2019s earliest films meant to him when growing up in Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cObviously when you saw <em>Shaun of the Dead<\/em> for the first time, you knew he was a special filmmaker. He\u2019s one of those guys where I go, \u2018Oh what a vision, what a control of tone. What an ability to [take] a genre staple and reinvent it.\u2019 \u2026 I think <em>Hot Fuzz <\/em>is one of the most brilliant movies ever. I\u2019ve rewatched that with my buddies in Texas over and over, and over.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Powell goes on to specifically cite the \u201cMichael Bay parallax\u201d shots in <em>Hot Fuzz <\/em>as a moment imprinted on his mind\u2014the bit where the cameras spin around Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as if they\u2019re Will Smith and Martin Lawrence reincarnated. After that bit, as well as Frost going all Patrick Swayze\/Kathryn Bigelow in <em>Point Break<\/em>, Powell became a lifelong fan. \u201cHe just appeals to the fan, he appeals to the audience, and that\u2019s one of the things that I just love about this movie. You\u2019re taking all the movies he\u2019s made, and then this uses all those skillsets he\u2019s developed over an entire career and puts it in one movie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Wright it was also a chance to tick something off his own bucket list: adapting a Stephen King story for the first time, as well as one he\u2019s publicly admitted he wanted to remake. In fact, Wright tells us that this <em>Running Man <\/em>came about because producer Simon Kinberg read a quote from Wright in 2017 where he said if he ever remade one movie, it would be <em>Running Man<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was something I already wanted to do and perhaps mentioned in some interviews,\u201d says Wright. \u201cSo Simon Kinberg remembered that, and I got an email one day, and it was almost like the best case scenario where this wasn\u2019t something I was actively chasing. Because I had looked into it before, and there were some issues with the rights. But then I got an email in 2021 from Simon Kinberg that said, \u2018Is it true you have some interest in adapting <em>The Running Man?\u2019<\/em> And I was like yes, and it literally started there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wright muses there\u2019s an irony that of all his films, only <em>The Running Man <\/em>and <em>Scott Pilgrim vs. the World <\/em>have been adaptations, and both of those films he wound up adapting with co-writer Michael Bacall. However, in the case of <em>Running Man<\/em>, it came specifically from an appreciation of King and this particular story. While Wright doesn\u2019t recall if it was the first King novel he ever read, it was among them in those formative years of early adolescence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think the first King I ever read was <em>Night Shift<\/em>, which was a collection of short stories,\u201d Wright says. \u201cBut I know, because I still have them, there was <em>Salem\u2019s Lot<\/em>, <em>Christine<\/em>, <em>IT<\/em>, <em>Skeleton Crew<\/em>, and <em>Night Shift<\/em>. And I think my brother had <em>Pet Sematary <\/em>and <em>The Shining<\/em>. And then I had the Bachman books, so I read all of those, but I\u2019m not sure which was first.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With regard to <em>The Running Man<\/em> and the other three books King wrote under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman\u2014including <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/the-long-walk-movie-vs-the-book-what-changed-ending\/\">The Long Walk<\/a><\/em>\u2014there was an anger that appealed to Wright\u2019s young mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was about 13 or 14 when I read those, and I think also if you\u2019re growing up as a horror fan, Stephen\u2019s books [in that era] are the first adult books that you read,\u201d Wright says. \u201cAnd I think the 1982 [<em>Running Man<\/em>] novel still has a lot of power. It\u2019s a really angry book. Richard Bachman was sort of like Stephen King\u2019s Richard Stark\u2026 the idea being if he wakes up and it\u2019s sunny, he writes as Stephen King; and if you wake up on a cloudy day, it\u2019s Richard Bachman.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book has a cynicism and edge to it that is all the more remarkable when one realizes King set it in a fictional 2025 where millions of Americans are brainwashed by television into a complacency about their situation. In one of the clips screened exclusively at NYCC, there is a chilling bit where Coleman Domingo\u2019s host of the <em>Running Man <\/em>TV show\u2014a fictional series-within-the-movie which is a bit like <em>American Idol <\/em>meets the UFC\u2014tells his rabid audience that Powell\u2019s Ben Richards is a criminal who stole state secrets and gave it to a \u201cunion.\u201d When Ben calls BS on that lie off-mic, Domingo\u2019s host whispers with a shrug, \u201cMan, that\u2019s showbiz.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s interesting that in the time since the book was written, reality TV has become so mainstream and has been for at least 25 years,\u201d Wright observes while considering Domingo&#8217;s line. \u201cBut I think more recently, people have started to understand how it\u2019s manipulated and understand how those shows are manipulated and edited. And it\u2019s interesting while writing, a lot of that material is in the book. And that clip you saw today is only the half of what\u2019s said on the stage. It gets more fiery than that! It\u2019s like untruths about Ben Richards beamed into millions of homes to make everyone want to see him die. He kind of becomes America\u2019s most wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, Wright seems hesitant to draw too strong a line between the movie\u2019s dystopian future and our current state of affairs. Wright is quicker to point out how this moment echoes what we\u2019re still learning about the scripted nature of reality television, talk shows, and other forms of so-called infotainment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Says Wright, \u201cJust before we started filming with Coleman, that Jerry Springer documentary arrived on Netflix and that documentary seemed to kind of reinforce everything we had in the script. Both Josh Brolin and Coleman said, \u2018Have you seen this Jerry Springer documentary on Netflix?\u2019 And [they] go, \u2018it\u2019s basically the movie.\u2019 So we had already done our research on that stuff, and then all of these things are confirmed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also creates a hell of a backdrop for a <em>Running Man <\/em>game show where the entire world is out for Ben&#8217;s blood. Which we imagine leaves a lot of opportunities for Powell to get Michael Bay-inspired parallax camera shots of his own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Running Man is in theaters on Nov. 14.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long before he starred in The Running Man, Glen Powell had a professional relationship with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Kind of. 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