It really is sensible advice when people say you should never run away from your problems.

Except if those problems happen to be military trained assassins who will stop at nothing to kill you.

In that case, I highly recommend that you run.

Howdy, I'm Jeff Goldsmith, and this is the Q&A.

My agenda is simple.

Each week, I plan to bring you in-depth insights into the creative process of

storytelling. And folks, I couldn't be happier to have a chat today with good old co-writer

director Edgar Wright and co-writer Michael Bacall, the creative team that is bringing you

The Running Man. That's right. It's in theaters this week. I highly recommend you grab a pal

and go see it because it's an awesome big screen experience.

This was no easy task because Edgar and Michael were essentially going back to Stephen King's original novel for their adaptations.

So they're world building. They're keeping the pace going. They're adding new things to Stephen King's novel, but with his blessing.

And without a doubt, Edgar and Michael were very forthcoming about their creative process,

so I know you'll dig this episode.

And speaking of things to dig, folks, it's my 20th year of podcasting, my 13th year for Backstory

Magazine.

There's a lot going on for both of my outlets, and I hope you'll

check them out. We keep adding new articles to Backstory Issue 56, which you could read over at

Backstory.net, and Issue 57 will be coming out soon in December. If you've never read us before,

you could read us on a desktop or laptop at Backstory.net, or via our iPad our iPad app backstory. There's a free issue you could

peruse so I hope you check that out. And if you like what you see and I hope that you do, I hope

you'll consider supporting independent entertainment journalism and becoming a subscriber. And to

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