In the grim world of 2025, the United States has become a corporate-controlled dystopia where the rich thrive and the poor are left to rot in slums. To distract the masses, the government runs The Games Network, a sadistic form of reality entertainment where desperate citizens compete in deadly contests for money and survival. The most notorious show is The Running Man—a live broadcast in which fugitives are hunted across the country by heavily armed “Hunters,” with civilians incentivized to report their whereabouts. No one has ever survived. Enter Ben Richards, an unemployed and desperate father whose daughter is dying from a curable illness. To earn money for her treatment, he volunteers for The Running Man, not realizing it’s a death sentence. Given a 12-hour head start and the entire surveillance state turned against him, Richards must use every ounce of cunning and will to survive. As he evades Hunters through cities, sewers, and skies, Ben begins to uncover the horrifying truth: The game is rigged, the winners are fake, and the real goal is to eliminate dissenters under the guise of entertainment. With nothing left to lose, Richards turns the hunt into a revolution—aiming not just to survive, but to bring down the system.