In the 1980s, science-fiction movies reveled in presenting the future as a grand bad dream of where we were headed — movies like “Blade Runner,” “Outland,” “The Terminator,” and “Escape from New York.” One of those films was “The Running Man,” adapted from Stephen King’s 1982 novel (written under the pen name Richard Bach) about a homicidal TV competition show, and a book that now looks like the missing link between “Network” and “The Hunger Games.”
Released in 1987, “The Running Man” was a lumbering Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. You could say that Edgar Wright, the director of the new version, has made it into a decent Bruce Willis
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