Twitter was once a place where notable filmmakers offered a piece of themselves in between regimented press tours. Sometimes, they’d answer fan questions, or they’d go back and forth with each other in an effort to provide advice to aspiring filmmakers. And in some instances, one of their tweets would actually lead to collaboration, something Edgar Wright knows firsthand.
In 2017, Wright responded to a random tweet to say that The Running Man is the remake he’d most want to undertake. At 14, he’d read Stephen King’s (as Richard Bachman) 2025-set dystopian novel of the same, but he wasn’t old enough to see the Arnold Schwarzenegger-led adaptation in U.K. cinemas the year prior. Once he finally caught up to Paul Michael Glaser’s 1987 film a couple years later, he realized that King’s book was still largely untapped, thereby hatching his longtime desire to reapproach the source material.
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