Talk:The Running Man

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The Running Man clearly draws from previous work, although the exact line of inspiration/plagiarism is hard to determine.

• The first instance is Robert Sheckley's short story "The Prize of Peril" (1958).
• Sheckley's story was turned into the German TV movie Das Millionenspiel (1970). This movie is probably very obscure outside Germany and in fact couldn't be rebroadcast for 30 years due to legal issues (cf. de:Das Millionenspiel).
• Sheckley is again credited for the French movie Le Prix du danger (1983), starring Michel Piccoli as the smarmy show host. The movie version of The Running Man very much looks like a Hollywood remake of this French movie.

Not having read King's novel, I don't know how it fits in there. —Naddy 16:18, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The Running Man 2: A rumor of a possible sequel?

While I was watching The Running Man on Turner South I began to look up the same name on the internet, but sometime after the movie has ended I found two sites that may have something to do with a sequel to the Governator's dystopian blood run. Here are the sites I found in order:

• http://www.countingdown.com/movies/3240268
• http://www.liljas-library.com/run2.html

[edit] Split

This should be split into two articles. One for the book and one for the film.