Edgar Wright's new movie The Running Man is based on a 40-year-old novel set in 2025 and, although Stephen's King satirical vision of our reality TV-obsessed, hyper-surveilled present is ever-prescient, Wright still wanted to update the source material for a 21st Century context.
One way he does this is through Bradley Throckmorton, played by Daniel Ezra, a gang member who Ben crosses paths with in Boston. In both the novel and the movie, Bradley is vocally anti-government and opens protagonist Ben Richards up to the idea that the government-run TV network is a propaganda machine. The character gets a thoroughly 2020s update for the film, though – he's a part of an online community dedicated to unravelling conspiracies about The Running Man competition, with clips from his anonymous videos filling in key plot points.
