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Trespassers and troubadours: what to watch and listen to this week

The winner of this year’s Booker prize, Hungarian-British writer David Szalay, has often been accused of overwriting. His earlier short story collections and novels sometimes lost readers in their ornate, over-detailed descriptions. It seems he’s taken that criticism to heart. After abandoning a novel he had been working on for…

The Conversation

'The Running Man' review: Fun, fueled by rage and ultimately forgettable

'The Running Man' manages to be a fairly faithful adaptation, but despite its polish, this fun action thriller fails to leave a lasting impression.

Tom’s Guide

Edgar Wright explains Arnold Schwarzenegger's cameo in The Running Man

Director Edgar Wright has explained Arnold Schwarzenegger's cameo in his new version of his 1987 film The Running Man - revealing he was inspired by a scene in Sylvester Stallone's 1993 blockbuster Demolition Man.

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Euronews Culture's Film of the Week: 'The Running Man' - A Stephen King adaptation running on empty

Edgar Wright's take on Stephen King's 'The Running Man' is frenetic, fun action that lovingly nods to genre tropes - but exhausts itself with muddled tone.

Euronews

'The Running Man' Ending Explained: Edgar Wright Reveals How The New Ending Got Stephen King's Blessing

Let's break down the ending of 'The Running Man' and how it nods to the novel's original bleak finale.

Inverse

Edgar Wright on getting Stephen King’s approval: “I can’t let Stephen King down” [EXCLUSIVE]

The Running Man is in theaters November 14.

The Mary Sue

Critics Have Seen The Running Man. Will This ‘Fun Enough’ Action Thriller Have People Sprinting To Theaters?

Glen Powell and Edgar Wright come together for the Stephen King adaptation.

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Edgar Wright’s ‘The Running Man’ leaves a lot for the audience to unpack in the end

Let's talk about the ending of 'The Running Man'

The Mary Sue

The Running Man Massively Changes The Ending Of Stephen King's Story, And WTF Was That?

A decent movie has one of the worst endings in recent memory.

Cinemablend

8 Years Later, Edgar Wright Finally Makes The 'The Running Man' He's Always Wanted

'The Running Man' director Edgar Wright speaks about why his new movie is not a remake, and navigating the grim tone of the Stephen King novel.

Inverse

Glen Powell Goes From Running Man To Dancing Man In SNL Promo, And I Love That It's A Christopher Walken Homage

It's really off the wall

Cinemablend

Glen Powell is finished with remakes

Glen Powell has declared he doesn't want to film any more remakes and wants to focus on "original movies" instead so he can create his own "legacy of pictures".

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Glen Powell’s ‘Spy Kids’ roots played a shocking part in ‘The Running Man’s press tour

The Running Man is finally here and Glen Powell had a fun Spy Kids reunion during the press tour. He talked to Mike Ryan over at IndieWire about adapting the Stephen King novel. As they were joking about some of his old quotes, Powell actually brought up Robert Rodriguez out…

The Mary Sue

48 Years Later, HBO's 'It' Prequel Fixes Stephen King's Laziest Trope

'Welcome to Derry' fixes the worst habit of the Stephen King universe by reintroducing 'The Shining's Dick Hallorann as a fully fleshed-out character.

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Colman Domingo based his The Running Man character on "old school" TV hosts like Jerry Springer

Exclusive: The Running Man stars Colman Domingo and Lee Pace break down their villainous roles in the new Stephen King adaptation

Cinemablend

An Unexpected Stephen King Adaptation Is On The Way, And I Really Hope They Keep The Details The Same

I never would have seen this adaptation coming.

Cinemablend

These Book-to-Screen Adaptations, Like Annihilation, Were Wildly Misunderstood — And That’s What Makes Them Brilliant

These film adaptations refused to color inside the lines.

Total Film

Edgar Wright reveals how he knew it was "time to leave" his doomed Ant-Man movie

Edgar Wright stepped away from making Ant-Man for Marvel

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Total Film

The Running Man ending explained: All your biggest questions answered on the Stephen King adaptation

Everything you need to know about The Running Man ending explained

Total Film

The Running Man Easter eggs: all the Stephen King references we spotted in the new film

Did you spot these?

Cinemablend

The Running Man Review: A Great Stephen King Movie... Until It Totally Screws Up The Ending

A big mistake has been made.

The Conversation

The Running Man is the most fun you’ll have at the cinema this year

Nearly four decades after Arnold Schwarzenegger’s muscle-bound version sprinted across screens, The Running Man returns to cinemas. In Edgar Wright’s hands, this adaptation is a sharper, smarter reflection of a culture that still can’t look away from spectacle.

Inverse

'The Running Man' Review: Stephen King's Bleak Novel Gets A Surprisingly Feel-Good Remake

'The Running Man' remake is very Stephen King, and is also a massively dark movie that is somehow upbeat.

The Guardian - UK

The Running Man review – Glen Powell sprints through fun update of Stephen King future-shock sci-fi satire

Full-tilt chase sequences, a punk aesthetic and a sugar-rush soundtrack, means there is plenty of enjoyment to be had as Edgar Wright goes back to King’s original 1982 novel

The Independent UK

The Running Man review – a near-total failure from Edgar Wright and Glen Powell

2/5 The eerie prescience of Stephen King’s dystopian source material – written in 1972 and set, of all years, in 2025 – has been wiped from this bland reboot, which also seems to know it’s miscast its leading man

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