The Running Man 35th Anniversary 4K UHD Steelbook [Blu-ray] [2022] [Region A & B & C]

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Die USA im Jahr 2017. Die Weltwirtschaft ist zusammengebrochen. Ein Polizeistaat, aufgeteilt in militärische Zonen, beherrscht das Land ("Jeder der ohne gültigen Pass nach Mitternacht angetroffen wird, wird lebenslänglich eingesperrt!"). Nahrungsmittel, Rohstoffe und Öl sind knapp und das totalitäre Regime zensiert Kunst, Musik und Kommunikation. Mit der populären Gameshow RUNNING MAN ("Eine Sendung der ICS in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Justizministerium.") soll die Bevölkerung bei Laune gehalten werden. In der sadistischen Sendung werden verurteilte Kriminelle von professionellen Menschenjägern durch eine tödliche Arena gehetzt. Wem die Flucht aus dem Jagdgebiet gelingt, dem winken Freiheit und Luxus. Auch der (unschuldig) verurteilte Polizist Ben Richards ("Richards, ein ehemaliger Polizei-Offizier, war der Hubschrauberpilot, der vor 18 Monaten Amok lief und ohne Warnung in eine hungernde Menschenmenge schoss!") wird zur Teilnahme an der grausamen Show gezwungen, die bisher noch kein Kandidat überlebt hat... Mit Mister Bizeps (siebenmal Mr. Olympia, fünfmal Mr. Universum) Arnold Schwarzenegger (Terminator, Phantom Kommando, Predator, Red Heat, Total Recall - und 2003 bis 2011 Gouverneur Kaliforniens) als "Schlächter von Bakersfield" Ben Richards ("Schau wie dieser Teufel rennt!")

The Running Man' Is the Perfect Dystopian Movie For Trump's Inauguration - Motherboard". Motherboard.vice.com. 2017-01-20. Archived from the original on 2017-06-23 . Retrieved 2017-05-17.Und nun zu Ihnen, Agnes. WER, glauben Sie, tötet als Nächster?" - "Das ist eine schwere Frage..." - "Kommen Sie, raten Sie!" - "In Ordnung. Ich denke, der nächste Tote geht auf die Rechnung von... Ben Richards!"

Christopher Reeve was once attached to play Ben Richards. [4] In a 2015 interview about the film, Paul Michael Glaser said that he was originally approached to direct the film but declined because he felt that the preproduction period was insufficient. [5] Director Andrew Davis was hired instead but was fired after just two weeks, because the production was one week behind schedule, so Glaser was now hired. Schwarzenegger has stated this was a "terrible decision," as Glaser "shot the movie like it was a television show, losing all the deeper themes." [6] L.A. Weekly stated that the film's tone changed from a dark allegory to a humorous action film with the change of the film's star. [7] With Reeve, The Running Man was about an unemployed man who goes on a violent game show for a thirty-day period to feed his family. With Glaser and Schwarzenegger, the protagonist became a condemned, but innocent, criminal forced into a three-hour gladiator-style game show by the justice system. Screenwriter Steven E. de Souza wrote fifteen drafts of the script over the course of the film's development. Mendez finds the original, unedited footage of the Bakersfield massacre before she is caught and sent into the game zone, joining the other three contestants. Killian now deploys two stalkers — Buzzsaw and Dynamo — to hunt the four runners. There’s a small sub-genre concerning brutal futuristic game shows. Rollerball was king before Running Man, and videogames found their genre champion in Smash TV. That lust to see people win something, mentally placing yourself on that stage and pretending to be one of them, is almost instinctual in its allure. Add in actual murder to a depraved society, and yes, The Running Man could be the world’s highest rated TV show.

The Running Man 35th Anniversary 4K Blu-ray SteelBook Edition". Blu-ray.com. 22 August 2022 . Retrieved 16 October 2022. Dolby Vision brings some added splendor, raising the color to give primaries renewed life. Once into The Running Man itself, wild uniforms/costumes sport spectacular vibrancy. Every color jumps from the frame. Flesh tones hold a naturally vivid hue. In making this point, Running Man doesn’t try to hide the absurdity. The result is a culturally relevant campy icon, whose villains dress in Christmas lights, and a crowd eagerly awaits a slaughter. The show itself doesn’t make much sense – what happens if the runner is killed in the first stage during a three hour broadcast? No one cares though, certainly not viewers who treat death with such casualness, they happily celebrate their wins at the gambling tables, dead people be damned. It’s hilariously craven behavior, forever captured on film. Kinder von Cadre vergesst nicht: Oktober ist Euer Bonus-Monat! Verdient Euch doppelte Prämien, wenn Ihr ein Familienmitglied anzeigt!" commentaries and a pair of featurettes. So, for extras, fans will have to hang on to that decade-old disc.