{"id":10428,"date":"2025-11-10T19:09:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T11:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=10428"},"modified":"2025-11-10T19:09:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T11:09:05","slug":"what-stephen-king-edgar-wright-think-about-the-running-man-and-its-prescient-2025-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=10428","title":{"rendered":"What Stephen King, Edgar Wright think about The Running Man and its prescient 2025 vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/11\/10\/1ba64961-9f27-49fb-80bf-02f9860fedd4_14fd329e.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Numerologists would surely have a field day, but it feels apt that 2025 has become the year of Stephen King.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Maybe that statement feels redundant. Seemingly every year, there is a new adaptation of one of the myriad books written by the author, a man whose chilling stories have brought us films like <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Carrie<\/em>, <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">The Shining<\/em> and <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Misery<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">But this year, in cinemas, we have already seen <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">The Monkey<\/em>, <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\"><em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">The Life of Chuck<\/em><\/span> and <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">The Long Walk<\/em>, and on television, <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\"><em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">The Institute<\/em><\/span> and <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">IT: Welcome to Derry<\/em>.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Now it is the turn of <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">The Running Man<\/em>, the second feature film to be inspired by King\u2019s novella, written in the early 1970s but first published in 1982, under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Curiously, the original setting is right now. A blurb on the jacket read: \u201cWelcome to America in 2025, when the best men don\u2019t run for President. They run for their lives\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/entertainment\/article\/3332143\/what-stephen-king-edgar-wright-think-about-running-man-and-its-prescient-2025-vision?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Numerologists would surely have a field day, but it feels apt that 2025 has become the year of Stephen King. 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