Many have been hoping that Nicolas Winding Refn would finally get his long-gestating adaptation of Logan’s Run off the ground, but it appears that may have to wait a while, as he’s now signed on the adapt the graphic novel Button Man: The Killing Game for DreamWorks, according to Deadline.
The plot is a little like a grown-up Hunger Games, a tiny bit Red, a touch Running Man and a large splash of The Most Dangerous Game. The story centres on Harry Exton, a hired gun who agrees to participate in a game set up by a bunch of millionaires in which he is forced to face off against some of the world’s most dangerous killers in a fight to the death. When Exton grows tired of the game, he realises that the only way to stop it is to go after the millionaires directly.
It’d be an interesting project for Refn, although quite whether he’ll be allowed to keep the extreme violence of the likes of Drive and Valhalla Rising is yyet to be seen. There’s no news on when it might be ready to shoot.
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