Paramount+ has spent the last few years feeling like Taylor Sheridan’s personal streaming ranch, but there may be a new cowboy in town. Or pilot. Or desperate dystopian game-show contestant. Honestly, pick your Powell poison, because this lad is suddenly all over the platform’s movie charts, proving that his recent hot streak is not just a theatrical thing. At a time when streamers are constantly looking for recognizable stars who can actually move the needle, he’s making a pretty strong case that he has become one of Paramount’s most useful weapons.
Glen Powell currently has multiple projects drawing attention on Paramount+, with The Running Man and Top Gun: Maverick both continuing to perform for the streamer. The Running Man, Edgar Wright’s 2025 adaptation of Stephen King’s dystopian novel, has been a major streaming redemption story after a softer theatrical run, while Top Gun: Maverickremains one of Paramount+’s most durable movie performers years after becoming a box office phenomenon. FlixPatrol previously had The Running Man ranking as the No. 1 movie on Paramount+ in the U.S. earlier this year, while Top Gun: Maverick has spent hundreds of days in Paramount+ Top 10 charts across different markets.
Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars
Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you’d actually make it out of alive.
💊The Matrix
🔥Mad Max
🌧️Blade Runner
🏜️Dune
🚀Star Wars
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You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do? The first instinct is often the truest one.
02
In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely? What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.
03
What kind of threat keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
04
How do you deal with authority you don’t trust? Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.
05
Which environment could you actually endure long-term? Survival isn’t just tactical — it’s physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.
06
Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart? The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.
07
Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all? Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they’re actually made of.
08
What would actually make survival worth it? Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.
Your Fate Has Been Calculated You’d Survive In…
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
The Resistance, Zion
The Matrix
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.
The Wasteland
Mad Max
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.
Los Angeles, 2049
Blade Runner
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.
Arrakis
Dune
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.
Who Stars in ‘The Running Man’ and ‘Top Gun: Maverick’?
The cast of The Running Man includes Josh Brolin (No Country for Old Men, Dune) as Dan Killian, Colman Domingo (Rustin, Sing Sing) as Bobby T, Lee Pace (Guardians of the Galaxy, Halt and Catch Fire) as Evan McCone, Michael Cera (Superbad, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) as Elton Parrakis, Katy O’Brian (Love Lies Bleeding, The Mandalorian) as Laughlin, and Emilia Jones (CODA, Locke & Key) as Amelia Williams.
Meanwhile, over at the US Naval base, the cast includes Tom Cruise (Mission: Impossible — Fallout, Jerry Maguire) as Capt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, Miles Teller (Whiplash, The Spectacular Now) as Lt. Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw, Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind, Requiem for a Dream) as Penny Benjamin, Jon Hamm (Mad Men, Baby Driver) as Adm. Beau “Cyclone” Simpson, Lewis Pullman (Bad Times at the El Royale, Outer Range) as Lt. Robert “Bob” Floyd, Ed Harris (Apollo 13, The Truman Show) as Radm. Chester “Hammer” Cain, and the late Val Kilmer (Heat, Batman Forever) as Adm. Tom “Iceman” Kazansky.
The Running Man and Top Gun: Maverick are streaming on Paramount+.
