The Running Man

Siliconemelons · 2025-07-01T09:47:50-0400

so diverse!

Phazael · 2025-07-01T11:10:10-0400

Book was actually excellent but there is no way in hell they do the ending as remotely close to written as I would like, because current year. Edgar Wright can do no wrong in my eyes, so gonna roll the dice on this one.

Juvarisx · 2025-07-01T11:26:35-0400

spronk said:
youtube version (higher quality)

supposed to be more true to the book than the Arnold movie. i don't really watch trailers (spoil too much nowadays) so hope this is good

Man they so obviously wanted Steve Harvey, i wonder if they even asked. Also apparently the hunter in the green mask is Lee Pace, thats fun, but yea meh.

Cybsled · 2025-07-01T13:55:37-0400

Looks like they are going the book route mostly, but with heavy “gameshow” elements of the 80s flick thrown in

Harshaw · 2025-07-01T13:58:36-0400

I could swear that there was another movie I have seen that was very similar to this. I can not remember it though.

Cybsled · 2025-07-01T14:03:43-0400

Self Reliance? It had a similar theme and came out a couple years ago

DickTrickle · 2025-07-01T14:10:51-0400

Harshaw said:
I could swear that there was another movie I have seen that was very similar to this. I can not remember it though.

Yeah, that sounds familiar to me, too. I think it was this film.

Arbitrary · 2025-07-01T14:24:05-0400

Cybsled said:
Looks like they are going the book route mostly, but with heavy “gameshow” elements of the 80s flick thrown in

Book route for the story but with a tone entirely different. I don't think we're going to have our hero's wife get murdered trying to hook for money to buy (fake) medicine for their sick child that also dies to then close the movie out with the dude showing off his world class impression of a 9/11 hijacker.

Harshaw · 2025-07-01T14:39:41-0400

DickTrickle said:
Yeah, that sounds familiar to me, too. I think it was this film.

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Haha. No, I wanna say it had like Justin Timberlake in it. He was being hunted for some reason. I probably watched it stoned when nothing else was on

Caliane · 2025-07-01T14:54:28-0400

Harshaw said:
I could swear that there was another movie I have seen that was very similar to this. I can not remember it though.

Adaptations of The Most Dangerous Game - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

even looking at this list its missing a bunch.
or the variants like Death race 2000.
(I see "the running man" is not listed as a movie, but only as a book adaptation. )

Timberlake movie was "in time", which was more of a heist/chase movie. then death game.
He was being hunted by a cop, because he stole something valuable or specifically was given something stolen, not for sport or entertainment.

Malakriss · 2025-07-01T14:59:29-0400

Weird choice of music, the trailer gives a vibe for a different genre than what we are seeing scenes for. Leaves me with the impression of those late 90s / 2000s films where marketing had no idea how to present the movie and it pathed completely separate from the promotional material.

Mahes · 2025-07-01T15:14:56-0400

moonarchia · 2025-07-01T15:26:23-0400

Harshaw said:
I could swear that there was another movie I have seen that was very similar to this. I can not remember it though.

Harshaw · 2025-07-01T15:39:48-0400

moonarchia said:

They could take out all the "Running Man" logos and shit and it wouldn't even really have much in common with the original.

moonarchia · 2025-07-01T15:41:21-0400

Harshaw said:
They could take out all the "Running Man" logos and shit and it wouldn't even really have much in common with the original.

The 80s were a wild fucking decade.

Juvarisx · 2025-07-01T15:47:40-0400

moonarchia said:
The 80s were a wild fucking decade.

I loved a lot of it tbh lol

Lightning Lord Rule · 2025-07-01T18:45:06-0400

Arbitrary said:
Book route for the story but with a tone entirely different. I don't think we're going to have our hero's wife get murdered trying to hook for money to buy (fake) medicine for their sick child that also dies to then close the movie out with the dude showing off his world class impression of a 9/11 hijacker.

I thought the trailer looked pretty good tbh, kind of a cool and interesting vibe compared to the original movie and Powell is a good choice I think. Though it looks like there's a lot of Squid Game influence here going on? Hard to say at this point.

Then I read this post and now I think they'll do a 'white guys are gonna false flag/terrorist attack us all to death!' Kind of angle.
Please, I hope not

Harshaw · 2025-07-01T18:49:06-0400

Lightning Lord Rule said:
I thought the trailer looked pretty good tbh, kind of a cool and interesting vibe compared to the original movie and Powell is a good choice I think. Though it looks like there's a lot of Squid Game influence here going on? Hard to say at this point.

Then I read this post and now I think they'll do a 'white guys are gonna false flag/terrorist attack us all to death!' Kind of angle.
Please, I hope not

Don't bet on Edgar Wright being closet MAGA. lol

Inque · 2025-07-01T19:26:54-0400

Harshaw said:
Haha. No, I wanna say it had like Justin Timberlake in it. He was being hunted for some reason. I probably watched it stoned when nothing else was on

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