# Running Man remake

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-man-remake/1012745>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** movies\
**Created:** [January 8, 2025, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-man-remake/1012745 "2025-01-08T23:07:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-man-remake/1012745/41 "2025-01-12T23:57:05Z")

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> [@aceplace57](#):
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> Isn’t Hungar Games basically the same idea?

We’ve had decades of humans hunting other humans for sport or the entertainment of others for a while now, so I suppose there are similarities. With the _Hunger Games,_ at least the first book, author Suzanne Collins kind of went out of the way to avoid having Katniss getting her hands dirty with the unpleasantness of surviving the games. King doesn’t do this in _The Running Man_ as he kills a few officers the first time they catch up to him. But then one was a book for kids and the other for adults.

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**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-man-remake/1012745/42 "2025-01-13T01:36:07Z")

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> [@Odesio](#):
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> King doesn’t do this in _The Running Man_ as he kills a few officers the first time they catch up to him. But then one was a book for kids and the other for adults.

And it was a Richard Bachman book before it was known King was Bachman. Like much of his work as Bachman it was more violent and didn’t rely on supernatural suspense. _Misery_ was going to be a Bachman book. The onscreen credit in the original movie was to Bachman at King’s insistence.

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**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-man-remake/1012745/43 "2025-01-13T22:50:27Z")

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> [@Odesio](#):
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> From what we’ve heard from people who were on reality shows, the producers very often create a narrative that is anything but real, and in the process make heroes and villains for the sake of ratings.

Yeah, that whole area is ripe for exploration.

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