We’re celebrating! Based on The Hollywood Reporter, Katy O’Brian, an actress at present on the rise in Hollywood, has signed on to hitch Glen Powell in The Working Man, the upcoming Paramount movie that adapts considered one of Stephen King’s novels. Able to know extra particulars?
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Edgar Wright will direct the movie, in addition to co-write the script with Michael Bacall. Simon Kinberg, Nira Park and Wright are producing. Stephen King’s e book on which the movie relies was revealed in 1982 and written below the pseudonym Richard Bachman. The story is about in 2025 in an America below a totalitarian regime that makes use of violent recreation exhibits to appease the disenfranchised plenty.
Amidst this state of affairs, a determined man, who wants cash for his sick daughter, joins the most well-liked recreation present, The Working Man, during which groups of assassins seek out contestants. The longer a contestant survives, the more cash that individual makes — one thing that we are able to’t assist however be reminded of Squid Recreation.
However as the sport present’s producers and assassins later discover out, this determined man will break all the principles and expose the present’s darkish secrets and techniques, destroying it from inside. Powell will play that determined man, taking up the lead function whereas O’Brian will play one of many present’s contestants.
The Working Man is about to hit theaters on November 21, 2025.