SPOILER WARNING: The following article contains massive spoilers for Edgar Wright’s The Running Man. If you have not yet seen the film, proceed at your own risk!
When it came to Edgar Wright’s decision to make a new adaptation of Stephen King’s The Running Man, faithfulness to the source material was the point. Earlier this year, during a luncheon Q&A at CinemaCon, the writer/director explained that he was a big fan of the book from when he was young, and he was never satisfied with the extremely loose take that was released in 1987, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger (which I’ve previously dubbed “the least-Stephen King Stephen King movie"). He wanted to make a film that better represented King’s original story.
