Lee Pace is back as the bad guy and the latest star to join the Glen Powell starring 'The Running Man.' The actor also joins Josh Brolin and Katy O'Brian in Paramount's adaptation of the Stephen King novel. King's 'Running Man,' published in 1982 and written under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, was set in 2025 in an America under a totalitarian regime that uses violent game shows to exercise control of the masses.