Oh, I'm not arguing against it. The movie has basically nothing in common with the short story. In the latter, he's running across the countryside and there's audience participation. If a civilian sees him and calls into the hunters with a tip they end up acting on, the civ gets put into a cash lotto or wins a toaster or something.
Oh, I'm not arguing against it. The movie has basically nothing in common with the short story. In the latter, he's running across the countryside and there's audience participation. If a civilian sees him and calls into the hunters with a tip they end up acting on, the civ gets put into a cash lotto or wins a toaster or something.
Now I kinda wanna try my hand at writing a story that's part OG Running Man, part Western. Wanderers going around collecting bounties.
"Whatcha got, gunslinger?"
"One dead, one likely. Stiff is Jayquan Pharell Williams, his friend's Cohray Xavier Jefferson."