While its release may have been pushed back, The Running Man is finally crossing the finish line as it arrives at Cineworld cinemas on the 14th November. Another Stephen King book to screen adaptation to add to your 2025 watchlist, Hollywood’s new favourite action man, Glen Powell, stars as Ben Richards; a man down on his luck and looking to enter a dangerous TV gameshow in order to provide for his family.
Set in a not too distant society, Edgar Wright is bringing back the dystopian thriller, with Colman Domingo starring as host of The Running Man show, Bobby Thompson, and Lee Pace as Evan McCone, one of the key hunters trying to catch and kill Ben.
An action-packed thriller not to be missed, Cineworld is showing it to a number of special formats. Book your tickets for The Running Man in IMAX, 4DX, and Superscreen. Need more convincing? Here’s what each format will deliver to your The Running Man screening.
Bring Edgar Wright’s The Running Man vision to life in IMAX
Based on the 1982 novel, at the time the year 2025 felt like a future both in touching distance and one that had the potential to have a reality entirely different and transformed from that of the early 80s. In many ways, Stephen King (writing under the pseudonym Richard Bachman) was right, especially when it comes to our fixation on reality TV and putting human beings through difficulty and hardship for our own entertainment. At least our reality TV isn’t intending to unalive anybody, though.
Still, it’s interesting that Edgar Wright decided to remake The Running Man (which was originally adapted for the screen in 1987 with Arnold Schwarzenegger) now that the year the story depicts is here.
Presenting opportunities to spin a contextually futuristic time period, from the trailer we get the impression it won’t be all hovercrafts and robots, keeping things mostly planted in our current reality. However, the visuals still look incredible, from capturing the dingy and declining dwellings of the city Ben lives in to the explosive stunts and action-packed scenes as he goes on the run in pursuit of that life-changing cash prize. If you’ve got an opportunity to watch The Running Man in IMAX, then, you absolutely should.
Book your 4DX ticket and be a player in The Running Man
Want to feel like you’ve done as much cardio as Glen Powell without actually doing it? Watching The Running Man in 4DX is likely to get your heart rate up as the action on screen crosses over into the room with you.
With the character of Ben Richards being pursued down by a group of lethal hunters, 4DX makes the action feel as though it’s happening directly to you with the help of a moving chair, wind, water, scents, and strobe lighting.
From scaling a wall in just his undies to driving an armoured jeep and leaping off the side of a bridge. There are plenty of explosions that you’ll experience every vibration of, along with close combat as Powell’s character attempts to escape his demise over and over again.
Massive action scenes are deserving of a Superscreen
The Running Man is just epic stunt after epic stunt. And that means you need both the screen and the speakers to really feel the impact.
Cineworld is bringing The Running Man to Superscreen, which combines a ginormous screen (we’re talking floor to ceiling, wall to wall ginormous) and Dolby Atmos speakers for a booming, crisp sound that’ll have the popcorn juddering in your bucket.
The Running Man has to be seen in one (or all) of these special formats. Arriving at Cineworld on the 14th November, book your tickets now.
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