“The Running Man” races from the theaters and into the home video market, as the action comedy, starring Glen Powell, arrives on Paramount+ on Jan. 13.
Directed by Edgar Wright, “The Running Man” was adapted from a Stephen King novel of the same name, originally published in 1982 under the author’s frequented pseudonym, Richard Bachman. The story focuses on Ben Richards (Powell), a blacklisted blue-collar laborer living in a dystopian future. To lift his family out of poverty, he enters to compete in “The Running Man,” a televised game show where he must survive 30 days while
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