The Running Man's Glen Powell Also Stars in These Action and Romance Movies on Netflix - Netflix Tudum

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    The Top Gun: Maverick and Anyone But You star takes on Stephen King’s The Running Man.

    By Caitlin Busch
    Nov. 14, 2025

If you’re a director and need an actor who can take a hit, get a laugh, and fall in love over and over again, Glen Powell’s your guy. The Texas–born actor’s latest collaboration is with director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Baby Driver): The Running Man, an adaptation of Stephen King’s 1982 novel, follows Ben Richards (Powell) as he volunteers for a life-or-death competition show to save his sick daughter’s life. It involves donning disguises, dodging bullets, and, yes, running. So much running.

Powell has said he turned to his Top Gun: Maverick co-star Tom Cruise for running tips, but he already had plenty of experience: He was thrown around by Bane in The Dark Knight Rises, kicked butt alongside Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Expendables 3, wrangled tornadoes in Twisters, and flew in a real F/A-18 jet in the Top Gun sequel. Oh, and he portrayed the real Navy fighter pilot Tom Hudner in Devotion. For more action-packed, swoon-worthy Powell performances, you can watch these movies on Netflix.

Sand Castle

This war drama follows Nicholas Hoult (Superman) as Private Matt Ocre, a civil affairs soldier with the US Army who’s tasked with restoring water to an Iraqi village. Powell plays Sergeant Dylan Chutsky, a member of Ocre’s squad. The movie is based on writer Chris Roessner’s experiences as a soldier in the Iraq War and also stars Henry Cavill (Enola Holmes) and Logan Marshall-Green (The Invitation).

Sand Castle
1h 53m   16+   2017
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So you’ve got a bad boss. Most people would try to find a new job. Harper (Zoey Deutch) and Charlie (Powell), two fed-up personal assistants in New York City, are not most people. Instead, they scheme to set up their horrible bosses — played by Taye Diggs (The Best Man) and Lucy Liu (Charlie’s Angels) — so they can be free to live their lives. And if Charlie and Harper develop feelings for each other along the way? Even better. This 2018 rom-com also co-stars Pete Davidson (Saturday Night Live), Jon Rudnitsky (Stealing Pulp Fiction), and Tituss Burgess (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt).

 

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