‘The Running Man’: Arnold Schwarzenegger Optimistic Edgar Wright Remake Surpasses Original: “I Felt It Could Have Been Better”

The Arnold Schwarzenegger Netflix series “FUBAR” is returning with a second season this week, and the action star is making the press rounds to promote the show and is sharing his optimism about Edgar Wright‘s “The Running Man,” a remake of his 1987 original. ComicBookResources spoke with the former California Governor about his impressions of Wright’s remake, which he sounds hopeful that the project starring Glen Powell, who once said he got Schwarzenegger’s blessing, will have more money and technology to help execute the vision that Schwarzenegger feels “could have been better.” READ MORE: ‘The Running Man’: Edgar Wright Calls Remake “A Very Intense, Dangerous Road Movie” & Compares Glen Powell To Bruce Willis In ‘Die Hard’ “‘Running Man’ was one of the movies that…I think it would have been great if we would have been better prepared for this movie, if we would have had more money for this movie, and if we would have had then… the visual effects, the technology of visual effects, that they have today, all of those things I wished after the movie came out, I felt like it could have been better.” “It was great, but it could have been better, and I think that they have a good chance now with the new ‘Running Man’ to make it better. Continue reading ‘The Running Man’: Arnold Schwarzenegger Optimistic Edgar Wright Remake Surpasses Original: “I Felt It Could Have Been Better” at The Playlist.

Jun 11, 2025 - 23:05

‘The Running Man’: Arnold Schwarzenegger Optimistic Edgar Wright Remake Surpasses Original: “I Felt It Could Have Been Better”

The Arnold Schwarzenegger Netflix series “FUBAR” is returning with a second season this week, and the action star is making the press rounds to promote the show and is sharing his optimism about Edgar Wright‘s “The Running Man,” a remake of his 1987 original.

ComicBookResources spoke with the former California Governor about his impressions of Wright’s remake, which he sounds hopeful that the project starring Glen Powell, who once said he got Schwarzenegger’s blessing, will have more money and technology to help execute the vision that Schwarzenegger feels “could have been better.”

READ MORE: ‘The Running Man’: Edgar Wright Calls Remake “A Very Intense, Dangerous Road Movie” & Compares Glen Powell To Bruce Willis In ‘Die Hard’

“‘Running Man’ was one of the movies that…I think it would have been great if we would have been better prepared for this movie, if we would have had more money for this movie, and if we would have had then… the visual effects, the technology of visual effects, that they have today, all of those things I wished after the movie came out, I felt like it could have been better.”

“It was great, but it could have been better, and I think that they have a good chance now with the new ‘Running Man’ to make it better.

Continue reading ‘The Running Man’: Arnold Schwarzenegger Optimistic Edgar Wright Remake Surpasses Original: “I Felt It Could Have Been Better” at The Playlist.