Edgard Wright's film of Richard Bachman's THE RUNNING MAN (2025)
So, this is.... Very broad (hey, AMERICANOS team, where you at? Or Fun Twinks eaters!) very sharp, very much turning an Exploitation Big Dumb Hollywood Action Movie Thriller Funhouse mirror on us, and is it the Edgar Wright version of this book. OH YEAH YEAAAAAHHHHH THE CLOCK STARTS NOW ON SPOILERS! This is one of those takes I don't think many (or any) other film geeks or people who watch a lot of movies will have - certainly not the general public who will barely know this name if at all - but I thought of Larry Cohen watching this production of Running Man. .... Or I should say if any studio head decided to suddenly give the writer and director of The Stuff and The Ambulance buckets of money to plan and execute a vision of America in 2025 that is equally right now and years from now (really it is here as much as it is "ahead" in the future - and yes I am the millionth one to point out the Bachman book was set this year dont @ me). Cohen was very much a f...
