When Stephen King published The Running Man under his pseudonym Richard Bachman in 1982, he set his story — about a bleak America where the desperate are hunted to the death on national television — ...

In the 1980s, science-fiction movies reveled in presenting the future as a grand bad dream of where we were headed — movies like “Blade Runner,” “Outland,” “The Terminator,” and “Escape from New York.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Richards signs up for the popular reality show The Running Man, where three people can win a billion "new dollars" if they survive ...