It’s all fun, games, and maybe a little violence and mayhem on “The Running Man,” a fictional reality game show in the book of the same name , originally written by Stephen King (under his pseudonym Richard Bachman). Sign up for the Hello, Houston! daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.

The novel was originally adapted into a film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1987, and now a new The Running Man comes from director Edgar Wright with Glen Powell in the starring role.

In all iterations of the story, Ben Richards is a desperate man living in a dystopian futuristic society run by a totalitarian government that keeps the masses pacified via an all-powerful TV network.

Richards and his wife are barely making ends meet, and when their youn

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