Tom Cruise has been “running in movies since 1981.” So when Glen Powell was tapped to star in a reboot of The Running Man, he of course reached out to his Top Gun: Maverick co-star for advice.

“I mean, when you have Tom Cruise in your phone, the best thing to do is take advantage of that wisdom,” Powell says with a chuckle over Zoom. “He’s got decades of wisdom from being the greatest action star of all time. The best part about Tom is he’s very generous with that wisdom. The guy always picks up.”

In the Edgar Wright-directed film, which adapts Stephen King’s 1982 novel and reboots a 1987 big-screen version that starred Arnold Schwarzenegger, Powell, 37, is thrust into a dystopian future as a desperate father who joins a reality show in which contestants try to outrun a murderous gang of

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