Josh Brolin is in the final stages of negotiation to join Glen Powell in Paramount Pictures’ “The Running Man.”
Deadline has confirmed that Josh Brolin, famous for playing Thanos in the Marvel movies and Gurney Halleck in Dune, will be the bad guy in The Running Man.

We don’t know much about his character yet, but it’s said he’ll play the person running the dangerous TV show that Glen Powell’s character, Ben, will be a part of. Justin Kroll from Deadline also mentioned that Brolin won’t be playing Damon Killian, the villain from the older version of the movie.
The Running Man is a movie based on a book written by Stephen King in 1982, but he used a fake name, Richard Bachman, when he published it.

Wright and Michael Bacall wrote the script, and the producers are Simon Kinberg, Nira Park, and Wright.
The movie is expected to come out on November 21, 2025, which is also the year the story happens.
The first Running Man movie came out in 1987 and was directed by Paul Michael Glaser. It starred Arnold Schwarzenegger, María Conchita Alonso, Richard Dawson, Yaphet Kotto, and Jesse Ventura.
The story takes place in a future world where a policeman, who is unfairly put in jail, has to join a dangerous game show to try to win money for his sick daughter. To win the game, the contestant, called a “runner,” has to survive for 30 days while being chased by professional killers.
Josh Brolin’s next movie will be Wake Up Dead Man, the third film in the Knives Out series. He has been in a lot of other famous movies too, like Dune: Part Two, True Grit, No Country for Old Men, Ridley Scott’s American Gangster, Oliver Stone’s W., Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice, and Marvel’s Avengers movies.
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He was even nominated for an Oscar for his acting in the movie Milk.
Josh Brolin is represented by a group of agents and managers from companies called CAA, Johnson, Shapiro, Slewett, Kole, and Relevant.
Source: Variety