Actor Glen Powell is starring within the adaptation of The Working Man, primarily based on the novel by Stephen King, with director Edgar Wright on the helm. The story was beforehand made right into a 1987 movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, and a few have speculated about whether or not this will probably be a shot for shot remake, or a model new take, and Powell is right here to guarantee us that this story is fairly totally different, with fascinating parallels.
The actor defined in an interview with GamesRadar:
“One of many issues that I’d say is the construction of the film is extra like Braveheart and Gladiator. Like, abnormal people who find themselves attempting to avoid wasting particular person relations or make up for horrible issues which have occurred to relations and kind of find yourself getting pulled right into a higher story the place their issues aren’t distinctive, and their sense of the world and the way they’re interacting with their world is… they’re virtually discovering humanity within the inhumane.”
Primarily based on Stephen King’s novel of the identical title (first printed in 1982 utilizing the pseudonym Richard Bachman) and directed by Edgar Wright, the film follows Powell’s Ben Richards, an out-of-work father who desperately wants cash to purchase drugs for his sick daughter. Out of choices, he finally ends up competing on the fact present The Working Man, the place contestants can win $1 billion in the event that they handle to evade a workforce of Hunters for 30 days. The catch? Nobody’s ever managed it earlier than…
Powell additionally says that 1976’s Community was a degree of reference for the film, which is sensible contemplating Wright’s comedian background. “That was all about kind of the lengths that individuals go to,” he explains. Sidney Lumet’s comedy follows a struggling TV community which fits to excessive lengths to spice up its viewership. “The dehumanization of human life and the way a community will sort of do something for rankings. That is undoubtedly a tonal [comparison].”
The Working Man arrives in US theaters on November 14.
