Tom Cruise was ‘so stoked’ watching The Running Man trailer, Glen Powell says
Glen Powell has teased Tom Cruise was "so stoked" after watching 'The Running Man' teaser trailer.
Glen Powell has said Tom Cruise was "so stoked" after watching ‘The Running Man’ trailer.
The 36-year-old actor will lead the upcoming thriller as protagonist Ben Richards, and has now teased that his ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ co-star couldn't "hide his excitement" after he saw the first teaser for ‘The Running Man’.
Speaking with SFX magazine, Powell said: "Watching that teaser with Tom Cruise is a memory I will never forget.
"He was so stoked after watching it. What’s been amazing about my relationship with Tom is the fact he’s a guy that doesn’t hide his excitement.
"He loves the theatrical experience and working hard and putting your body on the line to entertain audiences."
‘The Running Man’ - which will also star Josh Brolin, Colman Domingo, Michael Cera and Katy O’Brian - is an adaptation of author Stephen King’s 1982 novel of the same name, and follows the desperate Ben Richards (Powell) who signs up to participate in the TV game show ‘The Running Man’, where enemies of the state have to evade death at the hands of the game's stalkers to try and win their freedom.
The movie, which is slated for release in November, will be the second interpretation of King’s work on the silver screen, with the first ‘Running Man’ film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as Ben Richards in 1987.
Powell previously revealed that ‘The Terminator’ icon had given him his blessing for the new ‘Running Man’.
The ‘Twisters’ star explained to People: "Arnold gave us his blessing. Patrick Schwarzenegger is a great friend of mine and I asked Patrick if I could talk to Arnold and I hadn't seen Arnold since we shot ‘Expendables’ in Bulgaria.
"Arnold gave us his full blessing and we get to give Arnold a very specific fun gift from the movie in a couple of weeks here. So I'm very excited to see him."
Meanwhile, ‘The Running Man’ director Edgar Wright revealed he cast Powell in the leading role as he wanted to use an actor "who hadn’t really done something like this before".
The filmmaker told Empire magazine: "I felt it was important to see somebody who hadn’t really done something like this before.
"It’s similar to Bruce Willis, when he was still the guy from ‘Moonlighting’, before he did ‘Die Hard’, where that adds to the suspense. Can they make it?”
While Wright is a fan of the original ‘Running Man’ movie, the ‘Baby Driver’ director promised his version would be a more faithful adaptation of King’s novel.
He said: "One of the things about the book that I loved was the fact that Ben Richards is out in the world on his own, so it’s like the deadliest game of hide and seek.
"It does feel like making a road movie in a lot of ways: a very intense, dangerous road movie. Ben is moving through different environments and meeting different people as he tries to survive 30 days out in the wild."
