Drew Dietsch | Published
The world is always It’s getting darkI found myself jumping into dark science fiction about the commercialization of human murder by powerful people. The framework that appears to be the most digestible for a wide audience framing this concept as a science fiction game.
Although any number of examples can be rattled in any number of different media, it intrigued the interest of three films coming out in 2025, using this concept to tell a potentially challenging and dark story.
Two of these are adaptations of Stephen King’s novels he wrote under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman, and the third looks darker than the maestro goes.
running man
These firsts I’m trying to focus on running manAlthough it was released later this year, and a novel from the King was written later. why? It has the biggest attention and budget of these three films. In other words, the most prepared film is to be successful and reach the widest audience possible.
running man It was adapted to the Arnold Schwarzenegger car in 1987, but so far it has been removed from the source material that the new film version makes sense.
In the new film and original novels, the main character, Ben Richards, is chosen to take part in a game show where detection must be avoided in the world. It transforms a poor, hopeless, out-of-work man who just wants to be the ultimate target of health care for children, if he can win the game, a perfect, provided life promise.
It’s a rather obvious minority that makes us oppose each other, so we don’t turn on the rich. The new Edgar Wright film appears to embrace its social commentary, but is also sold as a high octane thrill ride. I love such films and I love Wright’s brand of activism, but I hope he will be willing to bring the film to some of the tougher, more shocking places.
Specifically, the ending of the novel. I hope you have reading comprehension – Recent legitimate concerns – And there is no need for warning labels for spoilers outside of this sentence. In the novel, Ben jets into the game building, turning the birds over with the elite schmax, which runs the show. It’s a dark comic in the novel, but 9/11 produced the belief that the film version would not turn such an image into one of heroic rebellions.
If Wright’s film goes there and adapts the novel’s ending in several recognizable ways, it could become one of the most controversial topics of this year’s film. We’re not going to hold our breath when we think that’s going to happen, but we don’t deny that the other Stephen King films coming this year are inevitable with the darkest ideas.
Long walk
Long walk This is my favorite Stephen King novel about a creepy clown. Fans were waiting for the movie version Long walk For decades. After some deadly attempts, we finally got a feature film of a deadly game that sacrifices children all over the country in the name of nationalism.
If that sounds like that Hunger Games It’s no surprise that some of you know that Francis Lawrence, the main director of the franchise, is the person behind the camera. Long walk. In some way, this seems like Lawrence is hoping for an even more cruel and deadly take on this kind of sci-fi story.
I’m excited Long walk It finally turns into a film and appears to be doing its best to honor King’s novel. Mark Hamill has always been a welcome presence and casts him because the fascist villain is amazing. I can’t wait to see the performance.
But I hope you’ll be more than happy Long walk The brutal depiction of armed soldiers who murdered children and the challenge of the audience with indifference that allows these children to die for our entertainment and the false sense of pride of the people.
Then there are other films you probably don’t know that it’s a real downer.
School duel
School duel A separate film written and directed by Todd Wiseman Jr., posits a near future America where gun control has been abolished and school shootings have risen to unprecedented levels. The government’s response is a statewide competition where children sign up to kill each other to eliminate students who are most vulnerable to violence.
Instead of doing something to curb actual gun violence, School duel It presents an American solution to mental illness that is not surprised to see some people in the real world try to justify.
Shot in the right black and white, School duel In any of these listed films, this is the boldest of this idea. It clearly is a very angry and disappointing American issue of ramp-stretching school shootings told through a veil of speculative fiction.
I don’t blame anyone who doesn’t want to watch these movies, especially Long walk and School duelBut fiction has always been a way of dealing with and analyzing real-world horrors in a reasonable way. If these kinds of ideas cannot be explored and defined in fiction, then there is only the real world left to unleash them.
2025 is another dark year that looks like an endless onslaught of a dark year. These three films attempt to capture certain rage about our present state and our terrifying future.
I look forward to seeing them all. Because there’s no way they could be as miserable as they looked out the window.
