The Running Man trailer: Edgar Wright adds comedy to Stephen King's sci-fi dystopia

Edgar Wright is remaking The Running Man, and there's a trailer to prove it. Arnold Schwarzenegger's 1987 classic imagined a dystopian 2025 in which an authoritarian government forced cruelty on incarcerated people for entertainment. Now it's actually 2025 and, well, that doesn't sound that far off.<br /> Wright's version injects a bit of humor into the proceedings, while widening the stakes. The 1980s film, which was based on a novel by Stephen King, chronicled a game show in which prisoners had to survive in an abandoned section of Los Angeles while being chased by lethal assassins.<br /> <br /> This new movie keeps the basic premise, but expands the location. The participants have to survive 30 days in the outside world while "the entire n [...]