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🗓️ 7 November 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Fantastic filmmaker Edgar Wright discusses all the details around his brand new Sci-Fi/Adventure film 'The Running Man.'
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| 0:36.4 | His latest offering The Running Man is out next Wednesday and we'll have you sprinting to your local cinema, so it will be all right on the night with the bright light. That is Edgar Ray! Oh, right, Edgar! Welcome to the show, mate. Thank you. How are you? Nice to be here. You're busy? I have been busy. |
| 1:13.3 | I was just saying it's like the last time I did the show we were on the phone because it was in pandemic times. So it's nice to be here in person. Oh my gosh. Do you remember the pandemic? Of course, yeah. The Running Man, it's out of week today. It's massive. It's a massive film. You know, you've come a long way since Fist Full of Fingers, my friend. |
| 1:27.7 | Oh, thank you. You know what? That came out 30 years ago this November. Not that many people saw it in November night. I watched the trail this morning. I did. I watched a trailer for it. It's got some really good bits in it. Thank you. I was 20 when I made that film. |
| 1:28.8 | 20 when you made that film. |
| 1:32.8 | 24 when you started to direct space, which is incredible. |
| 1:35.7 | 24, that's, you're such a baby. |
| 1:37.5 | You're in charge of a network show? |
| 1:41.7 | No, I think, I definitely realized that at the time. |
| 2:01.5 | And as time goes on, I mean, I, I mean, I've realized how fortunate I was to be making. It was sort of also like Simon, you know, Pegg and Jessica Stevenson, now Heinz, they were all in their mid-20s as well. So the fact that we all had a show on Channel 4 was at 9.30 on a Friday. They would give anyone a show on Channel 4 in those days. But no, but it was, yeah, it was definitely that's something I look back on with enormous fondness. |
| 2:07.6 | And like, the fact that we were able to do that was crazy. |
| 2:09.9 | I don't know how you've made this film. |
| 2:12.2 | You've actually made it. |
| 2:13.1 | I'm not sure. |
| 2:13.7 | I know how I made this film. |
| 2:15.0 | When you go and see this film, as many of you will at the cinema, it's our week today. |
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