THE RUNNING MAN's Glen Powell Says He Doesn't Identify With People With Superpowers

Don't expect to see rising movie star Glen Powell play a superhero anytime soon.

via: SFFGazette

In a new interview with Empire Magazine, the Top Gun: Maverick and Twisters star revealed that he just isn't interested in playing a character with superpowers.

“I just don’t identify with people with superpowers for the most part,” Powell told Empire, explaining why he was attracted to the role of Richard in the upcoming remake of The Running Man.

“I like the ordinary guy against extraordinary odds. The entire world is hunting this man, trying to kill him. Can he survive? Can he save his family? That’s a great, simple story.”

While Powell's words rules out all of those Aquaman and Nova fancastings, it does leave the door open for Batman...

The 1987 sci-fi action film, loosely based on Stephen King’s novel, starred iconic action star Arnold Schwarzenegger as Ben Richards- a wrongly accused ex-cop forced into a deadly televised competition reminiscent of American Gladiator.

Given Schwarzenegger's physique, the movie reimagined King’s protagonist as a muscular action hero battling assassins for a chance at freedom and his daughter’s survival.

However, the upcoming remake from Edgar Wright and Glen Powell aims to stick closer to King’s original vision. This new adaptation will portray Richards not as a hardened fighter, but as a desperate, everyman character pushed to extremes in a dystopian society that turns suffering into entertainment.

In addition to Powell, the remake also stars Colman Domingo (If Beale Street Could Talk), Michael Cera, (Scot Pilgrim vs the World), Josh Brolin (Dune: Part Two, Avengers: Infinity War), Emilia Jones (Locke & Key), Lee Pace (Halt and Catch Fire, Foundation), William H. Macy (Shameless))and Katy O’Brian (Love Lies Bleeding).

Brolin is set to play a producer of the show, with Domingo playing the show's host, and Pace playing one of the fiendish hunters tasked with hunting down the game's contestants.

Cera is reportedly playing a rebel that's out to overthrow the government and finds himself assisting Powell's lead character.

Katy O'Brian, Daniel Ezra, and Karl Glusman are also set to appear in supporting roles.

The Running Man is scheduled to be theatrically released on November 7, 2025.

I can definitely see Glen playing Batman, since Bruce Wayne is an ordinary man who fights crime with his wits and gadgets (fun fact: Glen is actually in The Dark Knight Rises. He's the wall street trader who gets his head smashed in by Bane). If Glen passes on playing the dark knight, I'm still pulling for Brandon Sklenar.