re: How audacious to you see Hollywood getting in regards to remakes?

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Running Man is a great premise that I'd like to see done smarter.



or they could simply have king write the screenplay to be more faithful to the novellete and you'd have a whole new movie.

kinda like when the shining was redone a few years back.

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That would be awesome.

The Shining (TV Mini-Series) was MUCH better than Kubrick's version: We learned who the little girls were; learned what happened in "that room;" learned more about the butler/bartender dude; more about Toby; etc. etc. Kubrick's movie was more about Nicholson than the actual story.

Back to The Running Man, the novella was so much darker than the movie, it's not even funny. There were lots of underlying themes that the movie didn't even attempt to cover. It was just a bad chase move.

I would love to see M. Night Shama-lama-ding-dong's take on "The Long Walk"--just as long as it didn't include Mark "say hello to your mother for me" Wahlberg or Bryce Dallas Howard.