{"id":2140165,"date":"2025-11-07T01:47:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T01:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2140165"},"modified":"2025-11-07T01:47:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T01:47:24","slug":"the-running-man-edgar-wright-on-directing-his-most-expensive-movie-ever-shooting-glen-powell-naked-in-the-freezing-cold-and-getting-stephen-kings-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-running-man-edgar-wright-on-directing-his-most-expensive-movie-ever-shooting-glen-powell-naked-in-the-freezing-cold-and-getting-stephen-kings-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Running Man\u2019: Edgar Wright on Directing His Most Expensive Movie Ever, Shooting Glen Powell Naked in the Freezing Cold and Getting Stephen King\u2019s Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1412974\/\">Glen Powell<\/a>, naked except for a towel, dangles from a rope eight stories in the air in below-freezing Bulgaria as director <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0942367\/\">Edgar Wright<\/a> watches from the ground in a parka, sipping an espresso.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s February, and they\u2019re sprinting toward the end of production on \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt14107334\/\">The Running Man<\/a>,\u201d the longest, most expensive and by far coldest shoot of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm9238315\/\">Wright<\/a>\u2019s career. Days earlier, a blizzard hit the country, blanketing it in snow. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3150209\/\">Powell<\/a>, who stars as a game-show contestant in a race to stay alive in Wright\u2019s adaptation of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000175\/\">Stephen King<\/a>\u2019s dystopian novel, had been tracking the frigid weather closely, all too aware of this upcoming scene. In it, his character evades deadly hunters by jumping out a hotel window and then rappelling down the side of a building while wearing barely a stitch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always temporary pain for eternal cinematic glory,\u201d Powell jokes.<\/p>\n<p>Wright, who&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glen Powell, naked except for a towel, dangles from a rope eight stories in the air in below-freezing Bulgaria as director Edgar Wright watches from the ground in a parka, sipping an espresso. It\u2019s February, and they\u2019re sprinting toward the end of production on \u201cThe Running Man,\u201d the longest, most expensive and by far coldest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2140166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2140165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\u2018The-Running-Man-Edgar-Wright-on-Directing-His-Most-Expensive.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2140165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2140167,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140165\/revisions\/2140167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2140166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2140165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2140165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2140165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}