During the climax of the new movie The Running Man , runner Ben Richards gets his stomach sliced aboard an airplane. It seemed bad on screen, but trust us that every single person who has read the 1982 Stephen King novel of the same name started squirming in their seats. That’s because King , writing under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, devotes many, many words in the novel’s climax to describing how Richard’s entrails keep spilling out, dragging on the floor and getting caught on the furniture.

Despite the nastiness of his wound, the Ben Richards of the movie, played by Glen Powell , doesn’t really have to contend with his innards becoming outtards. While hardly the most important issue, this shift highlights one of the problems with Edgar Wright ‘s update on The Running Man

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