The Running Man (2025)

The 2025 version, directed by Edgar Wright, with Glen Powell as Ben Richards, a working man who enters a lethal reality show because he can't afford medicine for his sick daughter. Where the 1987 film kept him inside a TV arena, this one sends Richards out into the real world with the whole country hunting him, which is closer to the book's idea. King read and approved the script's changes, and he praised the finished film as a "bipartisan thrill ride." Wright brings his usual speed and dark wit, which makes this the easiest pick here for a group that wants a big, propulsive action movie with something to say about television.