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The Chronicle
|November 14, 2025
NEW ADAPTATION OF DYSTOPIAN STEPHEN KING NOVEL IS A VERY DIFFERENT BEAST TO SCHWARZENEGGER'S EIGHTIES ACTION CLASSIC
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TAKE your pick of the athletic turns of phrase that suggest a disappointing outcome: run out of steam, run aground, run on empty, run dry, run out of luck.
Any of them could apply to director Edgar Wright's high-octane adaptation of Stephen King’s 1985 dystopian thriller, which coincidentally imagined the bleak authoritarian future of... 2025 replete with a government-controlled television network that broadcasts a bloodthirsty survival game show with one inevitable outcome.
Working-class father Ben Richards (Glen Powell) has been blacklisted for exposing corporate negligence. He struggles to find work to pay for medicine to save his gravely ill baby daughter.
This story is from the November 14, 2025 edition of The Chronicle.
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