The Running Man is a 1987 American action film of Stephen King's 1982 novel of the same name.

The film, set in a America in the year 2019, is about a television show called The Running Man,
where convicted criminal "runners" must escape death at the hands of professional killers.
A wrongly-convicted man must try to survive a public execution gauntlet staged as a TV game show, called THE RUNNING MAN.

Directed by Paul Michael Glaser, the film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Marķa Conchita Alonso,
Jesse Ventura, Jim Brown, and Richard Dawson.