Stephen King's 1982 novel "The Running Man" is a gritty dystopian action thriller with a scrappy protagonist named Ben Richards. It was adapted into a campy movie in 1987 that starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and has since been re-adapted into a movie for audiences in 2025. This new film, starring Glen Powell as Ben Richards, is presenting itself as a mix between King's book and the '87 "Running Man" movie ; it features a lot of the campier elements of the Schwarzenegger film, but it also appears to be following the basic plot points of the original novel.

Probably the biggest adaptive flourish apparent in the trailer is the casting of Powell as Richards. In King's novel, the character is athletic enough to do well in the Running Man game show, but he's also malnourished on account of the

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