Although we’re still waiting on Edgar Wright’s Last Night In Soho, delayed by the general pandemic-ness of it all, to finally arrive in theaters, the The Sparks Brothers director has just added a new movie to his ever-packed slate of future projects: A new adaptation of Stephen King’s grim game show satire The Running Man. Advertisement The Running Man has, of course, already been adapted to the screen before. In 1987, Paul Michael Glaser re-imagined the book’s scrawny everyman scrapper Ben Richards as Arnold Schwarzenegger at his kill-and-quippiest, and transformed the premise of the original—released under King’s Richard Bachman pseudonym, where all his darkest impulses in the 1980s tended to find purchase—from a nationwide manhunt into a series of gladiator matches stocked with cut-rate supervillains played by a variety of pro wrestlers, former footballers, and one genuine opera singer. Per