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The Running Man is a 1987 American dystopian action film directed by Paul Michael Glaser and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, María Conchita Alonso, Richard Dawson, Yaphet Kotto, and Jesse Ventura.
Nov 13, 1987 · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonso, Yaphet Kotto, Jim Brown. In a dystopian America, a falsely convicted policeman gets his shot at freedom when he must forcibly participate in a TV game show where convicts, runners, must battle killers for their freedom.
Apr 18, 2024 · The man behind modern classics like Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz is about to adapt The Running Man for the big screen, and we have all the details.
"The Running Man" is a deadly game no one has ever survived. But Schwarzenegger has yet to play. Overview. By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity.
Television is now ruling people's lives. The most popular "audience participation" game show is "The Running Man" - where convicts can win pardons instead of "parting gifts" by defeating...
Schwarzenegger is a cop who flies his own helicopter gunship and is ordered to fire on citizens who are rioting for food. Refusing to fire on innocent civilians, he is knocked unconscious, jailed, accused of false charges and assigned to a penal colony. Meanwhile, life goes in in the society, which is numbed by a steady diet of fabricated news.
Nov 13, 1987 · Ben Richards (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is desperate – he needs money to treat his daughter’s illness. His last chance is entering a game show called The Running Man where the objective is to elude police and specially trained trackers for a month. The reward is a cool billion dollars.
