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Tom Cruise praises Glen Powell's new remake of The Running Man. The two starred together in 2022's Top Gun: Maverick, Powell's breakout, which led to his roles in Anyone But You, Hit Man (both 2023), and Twisters (2024). Powell's latest project is The Running Man remake, the second adaptation of Stephen King's 1982 novel following the 1987 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. At The Running Man premiere in London on November 5, Tom Cruise showed up to support his Top Gun: Maverick co-star Glen Powell's new movie. On X, Cruise shared, "Another great night out with my friends at the movies! You guys crushed it, congratulations! I laughed, was on the edge of my seat," and in typical Tom Cruise fashion, he "ate way too much popcorn." Cruise shared photos of himself with the cast and their Running Man popcorn buckets, including Glen Powell, director Edgar Wright, Colman Domingo, Emilia Jones, and Lee Pace. Check out Cruise's post below: Directed by Edgar Wright, who co-wrote the script with Michael Bacall based on Stephen King's 1982 novel, The Running Man remake stars Glen Powell as Ben Richards, a contestant on a game show in which participants are challenged to evade a group of hunters tasked with tracking them down and killing them. The Running Man cast also includes Oscar nominee Josh Brolin (Milk), two-time Oscar nominee Colman Domingo (Sing Sing, Rustin), Emmy nominee Lee Pace (Pushing Daises), Jayme Lawson (The Batman, Sinners), Michael Cera, BAFTA nominee Emilia Jones (CODA), Oscar nominee William H. Macy (Fargo), David Zayas (Dexter), Katy O'Brian (Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning), and many more. Tom Cruise isn't the only one praising Glen Powell's new movie since, following its premiere, the first reactions to The Running Man have surfaced online, with critics calling it action-packed and emotionally engaging. Some claim it improves on the source material, and while long, it remains thrilling and crowd-pleasing throughout. Glen Powell's performance is also receiving much praise. Tom Cruise has done much more for Glen Powell than merely showing up to the premiere. During an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Powell says that Cruise mentored him for The Running Man during a two-and-a-half-hour conversation about performing his own stunts: What is your advice on not only how to make these things look authentic for an audience, but how to survive a movie? And he was very clear about what that journey looks like. One was clearly stating that stunts are just as painful as the real thing. He's like, you've got to really fortify your body because it's like a normal fight — those physics are still the physics of what is actually happening. If you get slammed onto your back from a table, you're going to feel that someone slammed you on the back from a table, and you're going to do it 12 or 13 times. Right? It was made very clear after talking to him that there was a real sense of discipline around these things, and to treat these stunts with reverence, because you can get extremely hurt, and he knows it better than anyone. He's broken every bone in his body. He's like, this is not messing around. He was also talking about obviously the investment that it takes for an actor to do your own stunts — it's a great privilege and it's super important to sell it to an audience. To do all those things is really, really crucial to sell what you need to sell in a movie and to justify people's ticket prices. If they're following you, they want to know that that's the commitment. If I want you to show up for me, I’ve got to show up for you. I've got to say, Tom is obviously not only one of the greatest actors, but one of the greatest stunt performers. And really to have him as a friend and a mentor to make sure that I survived this movie was extraordinary.
