The Running Man won’t work for everyone. The film zips along in such an unrelenting way it can feel like whole scenes are missing. It also blurs the line between absurdist comedy, intense action film, ...

First published in 1982 but set in the year 2025 (ever heard of it?), Stephen King’s “The Running Man” takes place in a then-future where the world’s economy has collapsed, America has turned into a ...

Why walk when you can run? The second Stephen King adaptation about a contest to the death for a large cash prize has hit theaters this fall — Edgar Wright’s take on “The Running Man,” which was ...

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 ...

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The story of The Running Man has traveled a long way since its early incarnation. What started as a grim, pulse-pounding novel by Stephen King under the name Richard Bachman in 1982 has turned into ...

Running time: 133 minutes. Rated R (strong violence, some gore, language). In theaters Friday. Playing an all-powerful TV producer in the dystopian action film “The Running Man,” Josh Brolin ...