Author/director Edgar Wright’s upcoming remake of The Operating Man has been in manufacturing for a number of weeks now, however simply because cameras are rolling does not imply that the movie is finished including exceptionally proficient actors to its ensemble solid. The film already contains a lineup that features Glen Powell, Josh Brolin, Katy O’Brian, William H. Macy, Lee Tempo, Emilia Jones, Michael Cera and extra, and now it is being reported that Oscar-nominee Colman Domingo has signed on as nicely.
Based on Deadline, the Rustin and Sing Sing star has come aboard the manufacturing to play a key character in The Operating Man – specifically the host of the titular present. It was a task memorably performed by Richard Dawson within the 1987 movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, however with Edgar Wright’s film set to be a extra devoted adaptation of the novel by Stephen King (written beneath the pseudonym Richard Bachman), audiences can count on the half to be fairly totally different.
Within the new film, Glen Powell is starring as Ben Richards – a destitute man residing in an America that has gone full-on dystopia. With the intention to get drugs to look after his sick little one, he volunteers to compete in one of many harmful sport exhibits produced by the government-sponsored tv community. He finally ends up being a contestant on the nation’s hottest present, The Operating Man, which sees him despatched out into the world to be hunted as a fugitive. The longer he can keep alive, the extra money goes to his household.
The 1987 film options Richard Dawson’s Damon Killian because the principal villain of the movie, however Edgar Wright’s adaptation will characteristic Colman Domingo’s character as a secondary antagonist. He would be the smiling face of the nefarious Community, encouraging viewers to be on the look out for Ben Richards and report sightings, however it is going to be Josh Brolin’s TV government who would be the foremost baddie of the story.
Whereas Domingo Colman’s profession goes again to the mid-Nineteen Nineties, The Operating Man will likely be his first time showing in a Stephen King adaptation. The challenge is now one in all three 2025 films wherein the actor will seem, as he’s taking part in Joe Jackson within the Michael Jackson biopic Michael and is in Anthony and Joe Russo’s upcoming Netflix blockbuster The Electrical State.
The Operating Man is one in all as many as six Stephen King variations arriving this 12 months, and it’s now solely months away from hitting theaters, as Paramount Footage has dated the thriller for November 7. Keep tuned right here on CinemaBlend for the entire newest updates concerning the movie, and for a weekly roundup of the most important occasions happening on this planet of Stephen King, take a look at my Thursday column The King Beat.