The film is an adaptation of a Stephen King novel. Ben Richards, the protagonist, is a down-on-his-luck everyman who enters the Running Man competition to support his wife and sick daughter. Also ...

In Edgar Wright's new take on The Running Man, violence and entertainment are inextricable. When out-of-work father Ben Richards runs out of options to secure a paycheck to buy vital medicine for his ...

Josh Brolin often doesn't get credit for his versatility as an actor, but in 2025, he's showing off his range. He often plays complex, rugged heroes like in Dune or Deadpool 2, infusing them with an ...

The actor stars as an Everyman battling it out in a near-future but familiarly dystopian America in the director Edgar Wright’s new version of the Stephen King novel. By Manohla Dargis When you ...

‘The Running Man’ is not necessarily the movie you might expect director Edgar Wright to make; he’s brought his own zippy visual style to genre comedies set in the horror, cop and alien invasion world ...

As disinformation runs rampant and the truth is under attack, “The Running Man” comes out at a timely moment. The dystopian blockbuster is the second adaptation of Stephen King’s 1982 novel. However, ...

Spoilers follow for the Stephen King novels The Long Walk and The Running Man, as well as for The Long Walk movie and the original The Running Man movie. The Long Walk is out on Friday, September 12, ...

Decades later, unsettling ideas presented by horror great Stephen King in “The Running Man” continue to resonate. Published in 1982 under the pen name Richard Bachman, “The Running Man” is set in a ...

Glen Powell leads the cast of The Running Man, directed by Edgar Wright. The Running Man is about a game show with life or death stakes in a(n obviously) dystopian world. The film is an adaptation of ...