Welcome to October, Stephen King fans! This, of course, is the spookiest month of the year, and it’s thus a favorite time for Constant Readers: the ideal 31-day period to marathon every horrific King movie and perhaps induce nightmares by reading books like Pet Sematary or Revival before bed. As far as new adaptations go, the next one set to arrive is IT: Welcome To Derry, which will be premiering on HBO on October 26 – but for this week’s edition of The King Beat, we’re going to be skipping ahead a bit and talking about the last King blockbuster of 2025: Edgar Wright’s The Running Man.
The lead story for this column concerns alterations that are being made to the third act of the Glen Powell-led remake, but it’s not the only headline out of the world of Stephen King, as we also have the director of the new movie Good Boy sharing his own King-centric career aspirations and a fresh look into the making of Francis Lawrence’s The Long Walk. There is a whole lot to discuss, so let’s dig in!
