Glen Powell led the UK premiere of Edgar Wright's The Running Man, the second screen adaptation of Stephen King's 1982 novel of a lethal game show.
Glen Powell, Hangman in Top Gun: Maverick, led the UK premiere of The Running Man at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square in the West End on Wednesday 5 November 2025. Edgar Wright directed the film, in which Powell plays the runner Ben Richards.
Powell was born in Austin, Texas, in 1988 and began acting as a teenager. Richard Linklater cast him in Everybody Wants Some!!, and he played John Glenn in Hidden Figures.
The romantic comedy Anyone but You confirmed him as a leading man. He co-wrote and produced Hit Man with Linklater, then starred in Twisters.
Wright wrote the film with Michael Bacall, the second adaptation of Stephen King’s 1982 novel after the 1987 picture. It imagines a near-future America where a network’s most popular show pays a billion dollars to any contestant who survives thirty days of being hunted.
The film is a British and American production, made by Kinberg Genre and the British company Complete Fiction, with Nira Park producing alongside Wright.
Colman Domingo, Lee Pace and Emilia Jones joined Powell and Wright on the carpet. Josh Brolin, William H. Macy and Michael Cera are also in the cast.