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 ...

Comedy may be the genre most associated with director Edgar Wright, but he's also proven time and again that he's got a great sense for kinetic action. His Cornetto Trilogy — "Shaun of the Dead," "Hot ...

"This game is no game," warns Colman Domingo's TV host in The Running Man, a new Stephen King adaptation that should be a pulse-pounding thrill ride, but is instead a disappointingly damp squib. The ...

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, ...

Edgar Wright feels like the perfect person to adapt Stephen King's most obscure work, especially since he's proven to be one of the more effective genre filmmakers of the 21st century. What might come ...

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.

Stephen King wrote The Running Man in 1972 when, as he’d later describe, he was “a young man who was angry, energetic, and infatuated with the art and the craft of writing”. It imagines a reality ...

Stephen King’s “The Running Man,” published in 1982, was set in 2025 and imagined the United States as an authoritarian dystopia. Gonna leave that there for a moment. Five years later, the book was ...

In 1987, Arnold Schwarzenegger starred as Ben Richards in the film The Running Man, which was very loosely based on the novel of the same name by legendary author Stephen King. Directed by Paul ...