Millions Hunt. One Runs. Everyone Watches.

?In a near-future society, The Running Man is the top-rated show on television—a deadly competition where contestants, known as Runners, must survive 30 days while being hunted by professional assassins, with every move broadcast to a bloodthirsty public and each day bringing a greater cash reward. Desperate to save his sick daughter, working-class Ben Richards (Glen Powell) is convinced by the show’s charming but ruthless producer, Dan Killian (Josh Brolin), to enter the game as a last resort. But Ben’s defiance, instincts, and grit turn him into an unexpected fan favorite—and a threat to the entire system. As ratings skyrocket, so does the danger, and Ben must outwit not just the Hunters, but a nation addicted to watching him fall.

The Running Man is the second adaptation of Stephen King’s 1982 novel by the same name. It’s produced and directed by Edgar Wright, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Michael Bacall. While it’s technically a remake, it purportedly follows the original book much more closely than the 1987 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger did.

King released the original novel under the pen name of Richard Bachman, partly to get around his publisher’s insistence that he not release more than one book per year so as not to sabotage his own sales, and partly as an experiment to see if he could reach success with his books on the basis of their quality alone rather than his name, to prove to himself that his career wasn’t a fluke. Obviously, it wasn’t.

The Running Man stars Glen Powell, Katy O’Brian, Daniel Ezra, Karl Glusman, Josh Brolin, Lee Pace, Jayme Lawson, Michael Cera, Emilia Jones, William H. Macy, David Zayas, Sean Hayes, and Colman Domingo. It releases from Paramount Pictures on November 7, 2025.