Wonder Runner Prime Video-Bound

Wonder Woman’s Gal Gadot stars in a new thriller from Oscar-winner Kevin Macdonald that will stream on Prime Video from September 22.

In The Runner, she plays a lawyer who must sprint unquestioningly through the streets of London if she’s to save her kidnapped son (view trailer).

Damian Lewis and Alfred Enoch co-star. Reads the blurb:

In the pulse-pounding psychological thriller The Runner, Maia Marten (Gal Gadot) has built her life on being one step ahead — a sharp, resourceful, high-powered lawyer at the top of London’s legal world.

During her routine morning run, a single phone call shatters her world: her son has been taken. The instructions to get him back are simple and merciless — keep moving, follow every command, and tell no one. Stop, and he dies.

Forced to sprint through the city and obey a series of sinister commands, Maia must confront an impossible question: how far will she go to bring her son home?

Set against the backdrop of London’s hyper-connected streets, The Runner is a visceral, high-stakes race where every second counts, every choice carries a price, and a mother’s unstoppable love becomes the most dangerous weapon of all.

Macdoanald’s best known for documentaries like Touching the Void and the Oscar-winning One Day in September as well as true-life scripted movies (The Last King of Scotland, The Mauritanian).