Overview
- The adaptation is released nationally on November 19, 2025, with a 2 hour 13 minute runtime.
- Set in a dystopian future, the story centers on a lethal televised manhunt that offers desperate contestants a chance to escape poverty.
- Wright emphasizes fidelity to King’s prose by embracing dated technology such as videotapes and mailboxes to build a retro‑futurist world marked by deep class divides.
- Glen Powell stars as the pursued contestant, with Josh Brolin as a cynical network director and Colman Domingo as the show’s charismatic host.
- The review highlights Wright’s ultra‑dynamic editing, virtuoso action, tonal shifts and pop‑culture winks, and contrasts this version with the 1987 Schwarzenegger film while recalling the Le Prix du danger legal saga.