Movie
1987
The Running Man is a 1987 American science fiction action film directed by Paul Michael Glaser from a screenplay by Steven E. de Souza. It is loosely based on the 1982 novel The Running Man by Stephen King. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, María Conchita Alonso, Richard Dawson, Yaphet Kotto, and Jesse Ventura, the film is set in a dystopic and totalitarian future United States, where a state-controlled broadcaster…
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One of the saddest recurring jokes on today’s social media is the claim that Orwell’s *1984* was misinterpreted as instruction manual for our world rather than warning about dystopian future. While many tend to find similarities between today’s reality and Orwell’s dystopian vision, there are other works of dystopian fiction that turned out to be more prophetic. One of those is *The Running Man*, 1987 science fictio…More
