In just over a month, Edgar Wright’s new take on The Running Man will be out, and it’ll have some changes to source material. This also includes its conclusion, and if you don’t want to know how the original book ended, you should go no further.

At the end of the 1979 novel, Ben Richards—portrayed in the new film by Glen Powell—learns his wife and daughter were killed, leading to him using a plane to kill himself and the Games Network that runs the titular bloodsport. An ending like that would probably court unwanted attention, and Wright told UK outlet Film Stories that he and co-writer Michael Bacall “knew at the outset that [the novel’s ending] wasn’t going to be part of this adaptation.”

Thus, a new ending was crafted, but the specifics are under wraps. A change like th

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