From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's the treatment.

It's the treatment.

I'm Elvis Mitchell. Welcome.

Good to welcome back.

An old friend who's been away from this country and this show for way too long, our old friend, Edgar Wright, who has a new adaptation of a film from a book by Richard Bachman, nay, Stephen King. I guess it's said in the year 2025. Yes. First of all the film is Man, and it's a pleasure to have you here, but when does

a book take place?

It's nice to be back.

It's lovely to be back.

Do you know what the jacket, the original 1982 edition of the Running Man when it was under

Stephen King's student and Richard Backman, you know what the log line of the book said in 1982?

Welcome to the year 2025 where the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives.

Which reminds me this book that clearly had a big influence of Stephen King, which is I Am Legend.

Not the movie, but the book, which is really about

living in this world where you can't trust anybody. You're forced to trust your instincts and your

instincts only at that point where you're so tired, you can barely tell what instincts to trust.

Yeah. That really is a big part of this movie. I think Stephen King, I started reading in my early teens and I think he was definitely,

I mean, it's obviously a writer I still enjoy to this day, but he definitely, I think probably

for a lot of people, if you're like a gateway author to reading adult books.

And the thing about Stephen King books was, you know, I was a horror fan so I'm kind of interested in really horror books. And the thing about Stephen King books was, you know, I was a horror fan, so I'm kind of

interested in reading horror books. And of course, when you're reading a Stephen King book,

the horror is not necessarily the thing. It's actually about kind of like society and life and a lot

of like adult material. I mean, when I say adult, I mean grown up. And I remember that being a

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