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The new trailer for Edgar Wright’s cinematographic adaptation of “The Running Man” by Stephen King had online, and as the 1987 version featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger, he seems to be heading in a much funnier and lighter direction than the book he adapts.

Located in the not too distant future, Glen Powell plays Ben Richards, a downward soul who is part of being a candidate on a popular game and thirsty for blood called man in progress. The competition forces our hero to exceed a group of hunters who are responsible for following and killing Richards, all for the good of live entertainment. If he exceeds his pursuers, Richards could leave with a truck in cash to help his seriously ill daughter.

In the 1987 film, which stands among The best half of Stephen King adaptations (although certainly Not one of the best films in Schwarzenegger), the family element was absent. Instead, Richards is transformed into a former military officer who has opted against the order to kill civilians. From there, our hero is thrown into a golden strike cache which was as garish as the liners he spoke with each successful killed. But the thing that the two versions of film seem to have in common is that they seem to omit some of the darkest parts of the book, and add a little more pep in the step of this man.

Stephen King’s original book (written under the pseudonym Richard Bachman) envisaged a future (by chance in 2025) which was so dystopian, the protagonist’s wife turns to prostitution to pay for their daughter’s medicine. The challenge of the Running Man competition is also even more difficult for Richards, which is radically out of shape, unlike Powell and its muscular predecessor on the screen. In addition, it could be too early to say, but the end of the book, which was also excluded from the 1987 version, seems to be well to work well with all that Wright found here.

(Warning: Spoilers for the original novel below.)

King’s original story ends with a deeply dark note when Richards learns that his wife and daughter were killed by the company organizing competition. With nothing to lose, our hero diverts an airplane and plants it in the network building of the network, causing an explosion that is described in the book as “lighting the night like the anger of God, and it rained fire to twenty blocks”. Yikes.

It is clear that Wright is not intended to reproduce the somewhat outdated action and filled with word games in the 1987 film, but we look forward to seeing Powell’s charm in the middle of the display and the S *** – Eat smile through the face of Josh Brolin as an executive producer Dan Killian. For a more painful footing orchestrated by King, Wait for the “The Long Walk” adaptation to strike the rooms on September 12, 2025. As for “The Running Man”, prepare, set and go see him when he arrived in theaters on November 7, 2025.