Earlier than Glen Powell felt comfy racing onto Edgar Wright’s The Operating Man, he made positive to get the approval from the star of the 1987 movie — Arnold Schwarzenegger.
As buddy of The Terminator’s son, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Powell enlisted the assistance of The White Lotus season three actor to verify his father was on board with him starring within the 2025 remake primarily based on Stephen King’s 1982 novel.
“Arnold gave us his blessing,” Powell mentioned throughout a Thursday interview with Folks. “Patrick Schwarzenegger is a superb buddy of mine and I requested Patrick if I may discuss to Arnold.”
The 2 actors shared the silver display screen collectively again in 2014 when Powell joined the solid of the third Expendables movie. Powell defined that he wished to hop on a name with Schwarzenegger as a result of they “hadn’t seen” one another since they shot The Expendables 3 over a decade in the past.
Nonetheless, he gave Powell his “full blessing” to partake within the new Operating Man movie. To commemorate his involvement with the franchise, Powell seemingly teased that he had a “very particular reward” for Schwarzenegger within the works.
“Arnold gave us his full blessing and we get to provide Arnold a really particular, enjoyable reward from the film in a few weeks right here,” he mentioned. “So I’m very excited to see him.”
Powell and Wright promoted the Nov. 7 launch of their Operating Man revival at CinemaCon on Thursday. They had been joined by fellow stars Josh Brolin and Colman Domingo, the place among the first footage from the film was revealed.
Whereas Wright’s movie is predicated on King’s novel launched below his pseudonym Richard Bachman, the story will differ from the reiteration Schwarzenegger starred in practically 40 years in the past. The story is about in a totalitarian society that makes use of lethal sport exhibits for punishment. In Wright’s model, Powell’s character, Ben Richards, joins a tv present the place contestants should outrun killers in an effort to earn cash for his sick daughter.
Alongside Powell, Brolin and Domingo, William H. Macy, Lee Tempo, Emilia Jones, Michael Cera, Daniel Ezra and Jayme Lawson be a part of the solid. Wright, Simon Kinberg and Nira Park produced, whereas George Linder, James Biddle, Rachael Prior and Audrey Chon government produced.