{"id":15280,"date":"2025-11-14T23:12:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T23:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15280"},"modified":"2025-11-14T23:12:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T23:12:02","slug":"the-running-man-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15280","title":{"rendered":"The Running Man 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I went and saw Edgar Wright&#8217;s new adaptation of <strong>The Running Man<\/strong> earlier &#8211; I absolutely love the original (older viewers will remember we used to give away copies on DVD as competition prizes), we enjoyed this in a different way &#8211; pleased to see it has retained its dystopian TV show gags (including a running joke built around an unexpected reference to Holly Johnson&#8217;s 1989 hit <em>Americanos<\/em>) and it hits a lot of familiar beats in a remixed way, although it&#8217;s certainly feels much closer to the Richard Bachman book where it&#8217;s more of a long-form open-world reality show. There&#8217;s an element of having its cake and eating it with the ending, which without spoiling too much, looks like it might end the same way as the book but then&#8230; doesn&#8217;t. Some fun world building and direction (and an unusual bit where it basically turns into <em>Home Alone<\/em>), and fans of Glen Powell not wearing clothes are catered for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For me I think I will always prefer the 80s futurism of the original, Arnie, the Faltermeyer soundtrack, Richard Dawson, Mick Fleetwood, but it&#8217;s pleasing that another version that has been made that&#8217;s both very similar yet completely different and is well worth a watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went and saw Edgar Wright&#8217;s new adaptation of The Running Man earlier &#8211; I absolutely love the original (older viewers will remember we used to give away copies on DVD as competition prizes), we enjoyed this in a different way &#8211; pleased to see it has retained its dystopian TV show gags (including a\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15280\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-3Ys","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}