Why The Running Man Changed Stephen King’s Original Ending
The distinction between Paul Michael Glaser and Edgar Wright‘s variations of The Running Man is evening and day. Glaser’s 1987 movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger represents an extremely free translation of the 1982 dystopian novel by Stephen King (written underneath the writer’s edgier Richard Bachman pseudonym), through which down-on-his-luck household man Ben Richards takes half within the titular sport…
