This campy, homoerotic ’80s sci-fi is getting a remake with a super-queer cast

Image Credit: ‘The Running Man,’ Paramount Home Entertainment

As our own world continues to feel increasingly dystopian, it’s no surprise that dark sci-fi stories have proliferated, from Squid Games to The Hunger Games.

So it’s fitting, then, that for his next film, director Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz, Baby Driver) is adapting the ’80s novel The Running Man—written by Stephen King under the pseudonym Richard Bachman—a dystopian action-adventure set in…. 2025.

In it, due to a global economic collapse, America has descended into a totalitarian police state (sound familiar?) where the government controls media and censors all other art (yeesh, this is really hitting close to home, huh?). The most popular TV program is the titular reality show, where enemies of the state earn their freedom

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