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This Wednesday at the cinema, the British Edgar Wright signs an effective adaptation of the horror master's novel that resonates with the current political situation in the United States. ...
MAINTENANCE. The director of this second adaptation of Stephen King's dystopic novel, on a television death race, details behind the scenes of his filming at the "Point".
Why it matters that Edgar Wright's The Running Man completely changes Stephen King's ending
But both those movie endings miss the different, darker kind of satisfaction that comes from the much grimmer ending of King’s novel, published in 1982 under his Richard Bachman pseudonym. There’s a rote, business-as-expected quality to the ending of both movie adaptations. Glaser’s version, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Ben Richards role, gives the character a more neatly packaged happily-ever-after, while Wright’s version is more chaot…
The action movie The Running Man, a new film by Edgar Wright, who directed the Blood and Ice Cream trilogy, as well as Scott Pilgrim Against All, has been released worldwide. This is an adaptation of Stephen King's early novel, which has already been filmed: in 1987, Paul Michael Glazer shot a film of the same name with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Wright's lively directing did not benefit the adaptation this time: the film looks more like a meaningle…
Is Ben Richards dead? Is his family really it? Why does Edgar Wright's film change the end of the novel so much? With his new adaptation of The Running Man, released in November 2025, the director delivers a version as explosive as political of Stephen King's cult work, with Glen Powell in a main role all in rage and resistance. And the end... changes everything. Unlike the 1987 film by Arnold Schwarzenegger, this version is more faithful to the…
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