‘The Running Man’ Review: Glen Powell Joins a Homicidal Reality TV Show in Edgar Wright’s Overelaborate Reboot of Stephen King’s Dystopian Novel
Variety | 12.11.2025 02:00
In the 1980s, science-fiction movies reveled in presenting the future as a grand bad dream of where we were headed — movies like “Blade Runner,” “Outland,” “The Terminator,” and “Escape from New York.” One of those films was “The Running Man,” adapted from Stephen King’s 1982 novel (written under the pen name Richard Bach) about a homicidal TV competition show, and a book that now looks like the missing link between “Network” and “The Hunger Games.”
