Edgar Wright directs the film, which stars Powell as a father who enters a deadly competition to help his sick daughter.

"The Running Man" was first adapted in 1987 with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the lead role, but that earlier version was different in some key points. Rather than a desperate father, Schwarzenegger played a helicopter pilot framed for murder who agrees to the game as his only alternative to incarceration.

Paramount Pictures has dropped the first trailer for The Running Man, Edgar Wright’s bold reimagining of Stephen King’s dystopian classic, originally published under his pseudonym Richard Bachman.