![]() ![]() He is subdued by his colleagues and sent to a prison labor camp. The government placates and pacifies the populace through violent TV programs its most popular being The Running Man a broadcast game show, where criminals and government dissidents flee from armed gladiators ("stalkers"), to earn a pardon and tropical relocation.Īfter refusing to open fire on them, Ben Richards, a police helicopter pilot, is framed for massacring 60 people in a food panic riot, in Bakersfield, California. ![]() īy 2017, the United States has become a corrupted totalitarian state following a worldwide economic collapse and the recent election. A new movie adaptation of the novel, announced in early 2021, is in development at Paramount Pictures, with Edgar Wright directing and Michael Bacall writing the script. The Running Man was a moderate box office success in the United States, grossing $38 million on its $27 million budget, but opened to mixed reviews from critics. The 1987 US film is set in a dystopian United States between 20. The film's story about a television show where convicted criminal "runners" must escape death at the hands of professional killers is very loosely based on the 1982 novel of the same name written by Stephen King and published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.Ī lawsuit determined the movie was plagiarized from the French movie Le prix du danger (1983) ( The Price of Danger) which was made after Robert Sheckley's 1958 short story " The Prize of Peril", just like the 1970 German TV movie Das Millionenspiel ( The Million Game). It may not be THE THIRD MAN, but THE RUNNING MAN is likely to satisfy most fans of thrillers, the director and the estimable cast.The Running Man is a 1987 American dystopian action film directed by Paul Michael Glaser and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, María Conchita Alonso, Richard Dawson, Yaphet Kotto, and Jesse Ventura. And William Alwyn's music score enhances the film as well. The script has a good helping of humor along with the suspense. Watch for Fernando Rey and Fortunio Bonanova (the singing teacher from CITIZEN KANE-"Impossible! Impossible!") as a bank manager. And Alan Bates, an actor who radiated charm, brings a lot of substance to his part. Lee Remick has never been better: a woman who sees her husband for what he really is when he assumes a new identity. The cast is superb: Laurence Harvey might look underfed, but his character is richly drawn he seems to have a great time. If a viewer can forgive a small handful of plot contrivances, this movie delivers in suspense, interesting characters, acting, and pleasing use of locations. He conducts us deftly through a nicely conceived intrigue, with no time wasted. Director Carol Reed was said to be shaken after being dismissed from MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY, but it really doesn't show. Sorely underrated and dismissed at the time of its release, THE RUNNING MAN can now be seen for what it it: a highly effective thriller. ![]()
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