What you wont get from the below description is how all of it is all 100% Edgar Wright.
So: lots of editing timed perfectly to the music.
Broad, sweeping camera moves.
Glen Powell, Edgar Wright, Colman Domingo, and Josh Brolin talk about The Running Man at CinemaCon.© Ethan Miller/Getty Images
Take that and put it on this.
Ben Richards (Powell) walks though a slum in a red hoodie.
Ben tells Brolin, No, he wont go on the show and to fuck himself two times.
That right there is why you’re able to win this, Brolin says.
Meanwhile, we watch Ben go through tests to double-check he can appear on the show.
A huge room of people on treadmills.
Him holding a cattle prod in his hand and just dealing with the pain.
This is America, dammit!
Domingo says, We dont take bullshit.
Domingos character says to the camera, as we see Ben out in the world.
Hes standing in front of his wanted poster in a disguise.
Quick cuts show him in all other sorts of scenarios.
In a booby-trapped house.
Sleeping when a gun gets put to his head.
A pink convertible driving through the streets.
Stop filming me, he screams in extreme close-up to a camera following him around.
Machine guns kill the pilots.
Ben swings from a rope into a building and crashes through the window.
At the end of the hall, Ben slides into an elevator shaft and throws a grenade back.
A bad guy throws it back to him it explodes in the elevator.
Ben falls all the way down into a sewer and lands safely in the gross water.
Im still here, you shit eaters!
he screams into the camera while giving the middle finger.
Finally, Ben is back in a booby-trapped house owned by a character played by Michael Cera.
Soldiers pour into the house and Cera electrocutes the floor.
They all light up.
The Running Man, which looks simply amazing, opens in theaters on November 7.
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