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Edgar Wright, Glen Powell, and Stephen King’s “The Running Man”<\/a>\u00a0is a combination that has stirred both film nerds and action aficionados’ imaginations ever since the project was announced. With the film’s November 14 release date drawing near, it’s almost time to experience the cake that the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy director and the “Top Gun:\u00a0Maverick” star\u00a0have baked and decorated.<\/p>\n In the latest issue of SFX magazine<\/a>, “The Running Man” director Wright answered questions about the movie and touched on a single subject that fans who are familiar with the source material have probably been wondering:\u00a0how the movie intends to adapt the story’s ending.\u00a0Removed from all context, it’s a powerful finale that I\u00a0personally consider one of the best Stephen King book endings<\/a> out there. However, no work of art exists in a vacuum, and the weight of history can’t be ignored, so the protagonist flying a plane into a skyscraper is an extremely uncomfortable finale after the 9\/11 terror attacks. Wright seems to agree with this line of thinking, seeing as he confirmed that the film’s ending will be different (if thematically similar)\u00a0from the source material:<\/p>\n “There are obviously some elements [of the book] that are not going to be a part of the new adaptation. Even Stephen King … he had to give script approval, and probably one of the most nerve-wracking parts of the production was sending the email to him with the screenplay attached. He loved the adaptation and said he’d been curious as to how we were going to tackle the ending. I’d say it’s not that ending, but it has the spirit of that ending. We allude to it, in a way.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n