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The Running Man (2025 film)

2025 film by Edgar Wright

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 25, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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The Running Man is a 2025 dystopian action film co-produced and directed by Edgar Wright, from a screenplay by Wright and Michael Bacall. It is the second adaptation of the 1982 novel by Stephen King, following the 1987 film. It stars Glen Powell as Ben Richards, a competitor on a lethal reality television show. The cast also features William H. Macy, Lee Pace, Michael Cera, Emilia Jones, Daniel Ezra, Jayme Lawson, Sean Hayes, Colman Domingo, and Josh Brolin.

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The public source identifies “The Running Man (2025 film)” as 2025 film by Edgar Wright. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Running, film and Edgar.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2025, 1982, 1987—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Running, film and Edgar providing the first useful test.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 25, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2025, 1982 and 1987.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Running Man (2025 film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.