Stephen King season is officially here, and while fans are gearing up for HBO’s IT: Welcome to Derry later this month, there’s another King adaptation looming on the horizon that fans are excited about, Edgar Wright’s The Running Man. Fans of King’s 1982 novel know that the climax is brutal and unforgettable. Everybody knew at the outset that [the novel’s ending] wasn’t going to be part of this adaptation exactly the way.”Luckily for Wright, the Master of Horror embraced the change of the ending. “He realised even before he read it that we weren’t going to be doing the ending from the book. The Running Man is set in a dystopian future where desperate contestants volunteer to be hunted by government “stalkers” on live TV.