The Running Man with Edgar Wright and Daniel Scheinert (Ep. 585)

The Director’s Cut - A DGA Podcast

Directors Guild of America

Tv & Film

4.6 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Director Edgar Wright discusses his new film, The Running Man, with fellow Director Daniel Scheinert in a Q&A at the DGA theater in Los Angeles. In the conversation, he discusses the vast number of locations where the film was shot, how he favored practical effects work and his attitudes on computer generated effects, and his vision for a dystopian future where technology simultaneously regresses as it advances. The film tells the story of Ben Richards, a working-class man in a near future society who is convinced to enter the popular and deadly television show The Running Man as a last resort to escape poverty. But as the show hunts him down, Ben’s defiance, instincts, and grit turn him into a fan favorite and a threat to the entire system as he must outwit not just the game’s hunters, but a nation addicted to watching him fall. See photos and a summary of this event below: https://www.dga.org/events/2026/january2026/runningman_qna_1125

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0:00.0	You know, William McChemacey has that line about these TVs don't watch you back.
0:04.2	You know, there's obviously, we're all very aware that our smartphones and laptops are listening to us.
0:09.8	And TVs are going that way as well.
0:12.7	You know, the idea in the movie is that we thought like everybody has a state mandated 65 inch plasma.
0:37.3	Yeah. state-mandated 65-inch plasma. Hello and welcome back to the Director's Cut, brought to you by the Director's Guild of America.
0:42.8	In this episode, a man competes in a game show that could mean life or death,
0:47.5	and director Edgar Wright's sci-fi action film, The Running Man.
0:52.8	The film tells the story of Ben Richards, a working-class man in a near-future society,
0:58.2	who is convinced to enter the popular and deadly television show The Running Man as a last resort to escape poverty.
1:04.8	But as the show hunts him down, Ben's defiance, instincts, and grit turn him into a fan favorite
1:10.6	and a threat to the entire system,
1:12.8	as he must outwit not just the game's hunters, but a nation addicted to watching him fall.
1:19.1	In addition to The Running Man, rights of the directorial credits include the feature films Last Night in Soho,
1:25.5	Baby Driver, The World's End, Scott Pilgrim versus the
1:29.3	World, Hot Fuzz, and Shauna the Dead, and episodes of the series spaced.
1:37.0	Following a screening of the film at the DGA theater in Los Angeles, Wright spoke with
1:41.8	director Daniel Shinerd about filming The Running Man. Listen on for their
1:46.6	spoiler-filled conversation.
1:56.0	Hello, hello. Thanks for coming. Hello, everybody. Hey, thanks for inviting me. This is exciting.
2:01.6	Edgar is one of my all-time favorite filmmakers, but you're also so nice and easy to talk
2:10.6	to.
2:11.6	So I'm not too nervous, but this can be...
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