The Running Man: Book vs. Movie
Edgar Wright's 2025 film The Running Man adapts Stephen King's book, first published as Richard Bachman. Glen Powell plays Ben Richards, who enters a deadly television competition to provide for his sick daughter.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Stephen King
- Year
- 1982
- Pages
- 352Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 7 hr 42 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Kevin Kenerly
Unable to afford treatment for his sick daughter, Ben Richards enters a televised contest that pays him to stay alive while professional hunters pursue him. He can flee across the country, but anyone who recognizes him can earn money by reporting his location. As the network turns him into public entertainment, survival depends on finding help among people with reasons to betray him.
- Director
- Edgar Wright
- Writer
- Michael Bacall, Edgar Wright
- Year
- 2025
- Runtime
- 2 hr 13 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Glen Powell, William H. Macy, Lee Pace, Michael Cera
- Genre
- action, dystopian, science fiction, Thriller
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Ben Richards signs away his safety for a chance to pay for his daughter's treatment, becoming the newest contestant on a lethal television show. Winning requires thirty days on the run, with assassins in pursuit and the network deciding how the public sees him. The longer he survives, the more his defiance threatens the people selling his death as entertainment.
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