The upcoming Running Man remake is set in a United States where people watch contestants try to survive being hunted . Watch any game show (or reality TV in general), and the host is as important as the players themselves, and that’s where Colman Domingo comes in.
He plays Bobby Thompson in the film, who hosts the titular blood sport that’s the talk of the country. We got a little bit of the character in the trailer, and according to Domingo, playing a guy like that is like “[being] in a whole different film than anyone else.” Like he told Entertainment Weekly , Thompson’s only seen through the context of his show, where he’s “operating, manipulating, charming, not only the studio audience, but the guests as well.”
Despite not having any backstory to lean on, Domingo revealed t