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The Running Man is a 1987 American dystopian action film directed by Paul Michael Glaser and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, María Conchita Alonso, Richard Dawson, Yaphet Kotto, and Jesse Ventura. The film is set in a dystopian United States between 2017 and 2019, featuring a television show where convicted criminal "runners" must escape death ...
Nov 13, 1987 · The Running Man: Directed by Paul Michael Glaser. With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonso, Yaphet Kotto, Jim Brown. In a dystopian America, a falsely convicted policeman gets his shot at freedom when he must forcibly participate in a TV game show where convicts, runners, must battle killers for their freedom.
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- Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
- Paul Michael Glaser
- 1987-11-13
Apr 18, 2024 · Powell will be taking on the role of Ben Richards, the character famously played by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1987 adaptation of Stephen King’s satirical dystopian thriller.
- Philip Sledge
The Running Man (1987) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
The Running Man is a dystopian thriller novel by American writer Stephen King, first published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman in 1982 as a paperback original. It was collected in 1985 in the omnibus The Bachman Books. The novel is set in a dystopian United States during the year 2025, in which the nation's economy is in ruins and world ...
- Stephen King
- 1982
In the year 2019, America is a totalitarian state where the favorite television program is "The Running Man" -- a game show in which prisoners must run to freedom to avoid a brutal death.
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The Running Man is directed by Paul Michael Glaser and adapted from the Stephen King (as Richard Bachman) story by Steven E. de Souza. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonso, Richard Dawson, Yaphet Kotto, Jim Brown, Jesse Ventura, Erland van Lidth, Marvin J. McIntyre, Gus Rethwisch, Professor Toru Tanaka and Mick Fleetwood.