
The Year's Biggest Stephen King Reboot Goes Back To Its Dystopian Thriller Roots
Dais Johnston
created: July 1, 2025, 4:12 p.m. | updated: July 8, 2025, 5:27 p.m.
Instead, he’s in Edgar Wright’s latest movie, The Running Man, running for his life.
Check out the full trailer below:The Running Man follows Ben Richards (Powell), a young dad struggling to pay for his sick daughter’s medical treatments.
In that version, the year is 2017, and Ben Richards is a disgraced former soldier.
He joins “The Running Man,” which is a more restrained game featuring rocket sleds and set in an abandoned part of Los Angeles.
Josh Brolin plays devious TV producer Dan Killian in The Running Man.
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