In the 1980s, science-fiction movies reveled in presenting the future as a grand bad dream of where we were headed — movies like “Blade Runner,” “Outland,” “The Terminator,” and “Escape from New York.

When Stephen King published The Running Man under his pseudonym Richard Bachman in 1982, he set his story — about a bleak America where the desperate are hunted to the death on national television — ...

In 1982, Stephen King—writing under the name Richard Bachman—released The Running Man, a dystopian thriller about a deadly game show where contestants, branded enemies of the state, are hunted for ...

As disinformation runs rampant and the truth is under attack, “The Running Man” comes out at a timely moment. The dystopian blockbuster is the second adaptation of Stephen King’s 1982 novel. However, ...