Arnold Schwarzenegger gave Glen Powell his blessing for ‘The Working Man’ remake.
Glen will star in Edgar Wright’s adaptation of creator Stephen King’s 1982 novel of the identical identify, which was first delivered to the massive display in 1987 with Schwarzenegger, 77, within the lead function and the veteran star was joyful to cross on the baton to his ‘Expendables’ co-star.
Glen, 36, instructed PEOPLE: “Arnold gave us his blessing. Patrick Schwarzenegger is a superb good friend of mine and I requested Patrick if I might discuss to Arnold and I hadn’t seen Arnold since we shot ‘Expendables’ in Bulgaria.
“Arnold gave us his full blessing and we get to present Arnold a really particular enjoyable present from the film in a few weeks right here. So I am very excited to see him.”
In the meantime, Wright beforehand revealed he solid Powell in ‘The Working Man’ as a result of he wished to make use of an actor “who hadn’t actually accomplished one thing like this earlier than”.
In an interview with Empire journal, the 50-year-old director stated: “I felt it was vital to see anyone who hadn’t actually accomplished one thing like this earlier than.
“It’s just like Bruce Willis, when he was nonetheless the man from ‘Moonlighting’, earlier than he did ‘Die Onerous’, the place that provides to the suspense. Can they make it?”
‘The Working Man’ follows the determined Ben Richards (Powell) who indicators on to take part within the TV recreation present ‘The Working Man’, the place enemies of the state should evade dying by the hands of the sport’s stalkers to attempt to win their freedom.
Wright vowed that his ‘Working Man’ movie can be a trustworthy adaptation of King’s guide and teased it will be a “very intense, harmful highway film”.
He stated: “One of many issues concerning the guide that I cherished was the truth that Ben Richards is out on the earth on his personal, so it’s just like the deadliest recreation of cover and search.
“It does really feel like making a highway film in a variety of methods: a really intense, harmful highway film. Ben is shifting by means of totally different environments and assembly totally different folks as he tries to outlive 30 days out within the wild.”
