Wright is coming off great reviews for The Sparks Brothers, the documentary he directed that premiered last month at the virtual Sundance Film Festival. Alex Jackson is shepherding it at Paramount. This becomes a top priority pic for Paramount, and a novel, which King published as a paperback back in 1982, a dystopian thriller that still feels prescient in the current collision between pop culture and politics, this before social media ratcheted up the stakes. While the filmmaker is very selective, the prospect of a new The Running Man is one that has intrigued him to the point that when asked if he could remake any film, he would choose that one. Kinberg brought the idea to Emma Watts, based on their long relationship, and then Kinberg courted Wright. Simon Kinberg will produce through Kinberg’s Genre Films banner, alongside Nira Park from Wright’s Complete Fiction banner, and Genre Films’ Audrey Chon.
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