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November 14, 2025

At the Movies: Time has outrun this ‘Running Man'

By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer

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Arriving in 2025, the year Stephen King’s dystopian novel was set in, its near-future has little in it that isn’t already plausible today.

It's always interesting when time overtakes the dystopias of the past. In Stephen King's 1982 novel “The Running Man,” the United States has fallen into a totalitarian state, divided between haves and have-nots, where all movements can be surveilled and realistic video propaganda is easily generated. King's book was set in the year 2025.


 
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