Edgar Wright on THE RUNNING MAN

Kermode & Mayo’s Take

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Film Interviews, Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Tv Reviews

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🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Some exciting news—The Take is now on Patreon: www.patreon.com/kermodeandmayo. Become a Vanguardista or an Ultra Vanguardista to get video episodes of Take Two every week, plus member‑only chat rooms, polls and submissions to influence the show, behind‑the‑scenes photos and videos, the monthly Redactor’s Roundup newsletter, and access to a new fortnightly LIVE show—a raucous, unfiltered lunchtime special with the Good Doctors, new features, and live chat so you can heckle, vote, and have your questions read out in real time. The fabulous Edgar Wright joins us on this week’s Take to talk ‘The Running Man’—his new adaptation of the Stephen King dystopia. You might remember the Arnie version from 1987, but Wright’s is a refreshed take starring very angry action man Glen Powell. He plays Ben Richards, an out-of-work dad living in the slums of a sci-fi totalitarian state, who enters a deathmatch gameshow in the hope of winning the cash he needs to save his sick child. Edgar and Simon talk action classics, staying on Arnie’s good side, and why Stephen King called the film ‘Die Hard for our time’. Mark reviews it too—plus two more big movies out this week: a blockbuster and an exciting indie. In the arthouse corner, the Palme d’Or-winning ‘Titane’ director Julia Ducournau’s latest, ‘Alpha’. In her usual out-there style, it follows a troubled teenage girl who returns home with a mysterious tattoo, amidst a terrifying bloodborne epidemic. And from Hollywood, ‘Now You See Me: Now You Don’t’, the latest entry in the slick magician‑heist franchise... which has left Mark wishing it would do a disappearing act. Ladies and gentlemen, be marveled as a Kermodean rant is conjured before your eyes! Plus more exquisite dad jokes and guaranteed groans in The Laughter Lift, and we’ll hear plenty from you lovely lot as always—including some prizewinning pedantry. Keep it coming! AND Don’t miss our upcoming LIVE Christmas Extravaganza at London’s Prince Edward Theatre on 7th December—with special guests Nia DaCosta, Gurinder Chadha, and more! Tickets here: fane.co.uk/kermode-mayo Timecodes (for Vanguardistas listening ad-free) Alpha Review: 13:11 BO10: 21:42 Edgar Wright Interview: 38:14 The Running Man Review: 53:04 Laughter Lift: 1:03:12 Now You See Me: Now You Don’t Review: 1:04:40 You can contact the show by emailing correspondence@kermodeandmayo.com or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo Please take our survey and help shape the future of our show: https://www.kermodeandmayo.com/survey EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: podcastadsales@sonymusic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:58.2	So, Mark, you know when you've done enough in a day? Let's say you've spoken about your new book
1:03.9	for the first time, recorded our wonderful show with the premium episodes for subscribers,
1:08.7	maybe rehearsed with a band, you know, like the gang of three,
1:11.2	that kind of thing?
1:12.1	I'm getting tired at just a thought.
1:14.3	Well, when you've done enough, Uber eats.
1:17.9	Get my favourite meals?
1:19.4	Well, food, snacks, shopping, all the Epicurean delights which your heart desires.
1:24.4	Imagine hopping onto that sleeper to Ben Z ants. And as you're pulling out,
1:28.6	you open Uber eats and have them deliver what you want as you arrive home. What are you getting,
1:34.3	would you say, in an ideal world? I don't know, a plate of sushi and some ice cold Japanese beer.
1:39.1	I have to say my favourite is the slightly guilty lastminute emergency supermarket delivery when you've just
1:46.4	come back from holiday and you realise you've got like nothing in the house at all.
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