There are adaptations, and then there are adaptations , which Edgar Wright's The Running Man — an adaptation of Stephen King's novel starring Glen Powell — fits under.

Sometimes, it feels like Hollywood is only comfortable with adapting (or, in this case, readapting) known IPs. Even franchises like the Mission: Impossible movie series, which has become a mammoth on its own, make you forget it's a reboot of a TV series.

It has been almost 40 years since Paul Michael Glaser's Running Man, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, came out. Now, Wright is taking the second swing at adapting one of King's landmark novels.

This time around, with four decades' worth of newer technology behind it, Wright's Running Man becomes the definitive adaptation. Maybe it is a coincidence, maybe it's not, bu

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