Discover What’s Streaming On: The fourth and possibly splashiest Stephen King adaptation of the year is now in movie theaters with The Running Man, a $110 million adaptation of King’s dystopian 1982 ...

“The Running Man,” the second adaptation of Stephen King’s 1982 dystopian thriller, can’t decide whether it wants to run a sprint or a marathon. On one hand, it’s a pulse-pounding blitz of kinetic ...

When you purchase through our links, we may earn an affiliate commission. The Running Man is a dystopian action thriller film directed by Edgar Wright, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Michael ...

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Edgar Wright’s 2025 Stephen King adaptation The Running Man has an ending designed to satisfy audiences eager for payback, after watching down-on-his-luck protagonist Ben Richards (Glen Powell) suffer ...

During the lead up to the release of Edgar Wright’s The Running Man, the studio behind this adaptation—Paramount Pictures—kept making fascistic business moves that underlined the irony that it was ...