Isaw Stephen King in person once at Fenway Park. It was really weird! Like seeing a literal living monolith… in a Red Sox hat. I can’t even imagine what it would be like to actually speak to him. So I definitely have no idea what it must have been like for Glen Powell when he was hoping to star in Edgar Wright’s The Running Man . Powell had to spend a night waiting for Stephen King to watch one of his movies so he could find out if the iconic author approved of his casting in The Running Man .

At a panel during this year’s New York Comic Con (which we first heard about at People ), Powell told the story of needing the official okay from King to star in the upcoming adaptation of his 1982 dystopian novel. Powell said he instantly said yes when Wright offered him the lead role i

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