If you've read Stephen King's "The Running Man," Edgar Wright's 2025 adaptation will feel a lot more familiar than the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger film. That's not a diss, it's a just a fact that the new version stays much closer to the beats of the novel. But while King's work is the guiding light, the film also takes plenty of opportunities to reference 1987's version of "The Running Man" specifically.

One of Schwarzenegger's best films , directed by Paul Michael Glaser and written by action legend Paul Michael Glaser ("Commando," "Die Hard"), the movie is far more campy and shows a different sort of dystopia from the new adaptation. Compared to the corporate fascism seen in Wright's version, the world is polluted, industrial, and more militant in its authoritarian regime. The "Runnin

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