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Movie Review: Time has outrun this 'Running Man'
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This image released by Paramount Pictures shows Glen Powell in a scene from "The Running Man." - photo by Ross Ferguson/Paramount Pictures via AP
It’s always interesting when time overtakes the dystopias of the past. In Stephen King’s 1982 novel “The Running Man,” the United States has fallen into a totalitarian state, divided between haves and have-nots, where all movements can be surveilled and realistic video propaganda is easily generated. King’s book was set in the year 2025.