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   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 14 Oct 2025 17:21:44 +1300, Your Name    
   wrote:   
      
   >    The Running Man Trailer Previews Glen Powell's Action Movie Remake   
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   >    Paramount Pictures has shared a brand new trailer for The Running Man,   
   >    the latest film adaptation of Stephen King's 1982 dystopian thriller   
   >    novel. This won't be the first time that the novel was adapted for the   
   >    big screen, as Arnold Schwarzenegger previously led the 1987 version.   
   >    The survival action-thriller is now scheduled to arrive in theaters on   
   >    November 14.   
      
   But will it be a travesty, as the (last, if multiples exist) remakes   
   of   
   Ben-Hur   
   Total Recall   
   and others were?   
      
   Or will it be a tepid remake, of interest only because it empowers the   
   protagonis, as that of   
   Night of the Living Dead   
   was?   
      
   Or will it be so well done and rethought that it can be watched   
   directly after the original, as   
   The Stepford Wives   
   War of the Worlds (Pal, Cruise)   
   were?   
      
   Or so well done that it is worth watching when the original was not,   
   as   
   The Thomas Crown Affair   
   turned out to be?   
      
   All evaluations are, of course, IMHO. YMMV.   
      
   But this sort of thing is /very/ hit-or-miss. And the misses are ...   
   terrible.   
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
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