Arnold Schwarzenegger Gave His Blessing For Me To Remake His Action Movie – Glen Powell

Popular actor Glen Powell has shared what Hollywood veteran Arnold Schwarzenegger told him about getting into the action genre. He recently revealed that Arnold lost it when he watched his remake of the legend’s 1987 flick of the same name.

While attending the movie’s premiere at AMC Lincoln Square in New York City, Powell said that his conversation with Schwarzenegger about the remake was heartwarming when it happened.

According to him, Arnold appreciated how amazing the remake turned out to be after giving “The Running Man” director Edgar Wright his blessing as soon as the idea was pitched to him.

Powell stated that contacting Schwarzenegger was easy because his son is his very good friend.

“It was funny talking with Schwarzenegger the other day.

He was so excited, but he told me, he said… And every single one of my buddies who have starred in action movies told [me] this. They were saying, ‘I don’t think you realize going and being out in front of an action movie where’ — again, in this movie, the entire world is hunting this one guy — I would tell them the premise. They’re like, ‘Oh, that’s gonna be, that’s gonna be something. That’s gonna be intense.’ And it’s true.

To do it right, to do one of these movies right, and I really am so proud of what we did in this movie… It’s very, it’s very physical. It’s very emotional, it’s all those things,” he said.

Describing the action scenes in the movie as unbelievable, he noted that the remake was clearly an upgrade on the original.

He concluded by saying that he had not spoken to Schwarzenegger since they both shot Expendables 3 in Bulgaria.

“Arnold gave us his blessing. [His son] Patrick Schwarzenegger is a great friend of mine and I asked Patrick if I could talk to Arnold and I hadn’t seen Arnold since we shot Expendables in Bulgaria.

So now, this one really upped it and did exactly that. The action was unbelievable and creative,” he added.