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This is Talk Easy. I'm Stan Forgo, so welcome to the show.

Today, writer-director Edgar Wright, where some filmmakers take a minute to find their voice,

Wright hit the ground running. There was always something fully formed about his cinematic vision.

Take Shawna the Dead, for example, from 2004. It's the film that many consider his true directorial debut after a rarely seen and slightly disavowed film called A Fist Full of Fingers.

Even then, the hallmarks of a right film were on full display, the seamless blend of action

and comedy, the breakneck pacing, the insert shots played for laughs, the music, my God, the music, every edit, sound cue and song, further enveloping the viewer in the North London of Shauna the Dead. And the same would be true for the rest of the films that followed, from Hot Fuzz and The World's End to Scott Pilgrim v. The World and Baby Driver.

His latest project, though, is an adaptation of Stephen King's 1982 novel, The Running Man.

You may remember the first time the story was adapted back in 1987, which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger as the titular freedom fighter trapped inside a deadly reality show.

Wright's new version reimagines that world today, a near future where contestants, known as

runners, are hunted by assassins for the entertainment of a nation glued to its screens.

Of course, a fantasy film. At the center of it is Ben Richards, played by Glenn Powell, a working-class father who enters the game to save his sick daughter, and quickly becomes an unexpected fan favorite.

Here's a clip from the trailer.

People on these games never come back.

I'm not trying to get myself killed.

So kiss my ass twice.

Right there is why you can win this game.

Rules are simple.

Survive 30 days.

The entire nation hunting you down.

And get your family out of Slumside for good.

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