Edgar Wright, the beloved director responsible for brilliant films like _Baby Driver, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World_, _Last Night in Soho_ and the Cornetto trilogy (_Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World's End_), has given us _The Running Man _(now in theatres), one of the most exciting and fun movies of the year, starring Glen Powell. But as Wright talked about the film at a screening in Toronto, he was enthusiastic about discussing the Canadian elements of the story with the crowd, as Powell's character, Ben Richards, embarks on a 600-mile journey from a fictional Co-Op City to Canada.

"I hope you appreciated that our hero at some point thinks that the best bet is to go to Canada," Wright said on Thursday night. "The only way out of this hellish nightmare is to get to Canada."

"And that

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