![]() A film adaptation arrived before the end of the 1980s, but the cinematic version of The Running Man (Glaser US 1987) is often lambasted for transforming a leftist novel into a conservative action blockbuster. A countercultural and scathingly anti-capitalist work, it tells the story of an impoverished family man selected to take part in 'The Running Man', a grotesque game show that offers cash rewards to contestants willing to be hunted on television. ![]() One of seven books to be published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, Stephen King's The Running Man (1982) is a dystopian sf novel written in 1971, during a time of severe civil unrest under Richard Nixon, but not published until after the beginning of Ronald Reagan's New Right revolution. ![]()
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