THE RUNNING MAN (1987 Theatrical Trailer)

This is the theatrical trailer for the 1987 dystopian action thriller feature "The Running Man", adapted from the 1982 novel of the same name by Richard Bachman, a pseudonym used by Stephen King ("Carrie", "The Shining" "Cujo").
Directed by actor/director Paul Michael Glaser ("Starsky & Hutch"), the movie was released through TriStar Pictures, Taft Entertainment Pictures and Keith Barish Productions on November 13, 1987.
By 2017, the United States had become a totalitarian police state following a worldwide economic collapse. The government pacifies the populace through violent TV shows: its most popular is The Running Man, a broadcast game show, where criminals fight for their lives as "runners", fleeing from armed mercenaries called "stalkers", to earn a government pardon and tropical vacation.
Captain Ben Richards (Arnold Schwarzenegger), a police helicopter pilot, observes an unarmed food riot in Bakersfield, California. He is ordered to open fire on them but refuses and is subdued by his colleagues. The media blames Richards for shooting 60 people and he is sent to a prison labor camp.
18 months later, he escapes with two resistance fighters, Harold Weiss (Marvin J. McIntyre) and William Laughlin (Yaphet Kotto, "Alien"), finding refuge in their camp, led by their leader Mick (Mick Fleetwood). The resistance group looks to hijack the ICS broadcast network's uplink facilities to expose the government's lies. Richards declines to help, and then heads to his younger brother Edward's apartment, only to find Amber Mendez (Maria Conchita Alonso), a composer, now occupies it, and that his brother has been sent to a "re-education" camp.
With Mendez's security travel pass, Richards takes Mendez hostage to flee to Hawaii but is arrested at the airport when Mendez alerts security. Meanwhile, Damon Killian (actor/game show host Richard Dawson, "Family Feud"), the founder and CEO of the ICS Corporation and the charismatic yet amoral creator, showrunner and host of The Running Man, becomes enamored by Richards' physical prowess and "notorious reputation" as a murderous madman.
Killian coerces Richards to participate in the show, threatening to send Laughlin and Weiss instead. Mendez sees a news report stating that Richards shot people at the airport, which she knows is untrue. As The Running Man begins, Richards is rocket-sledded into the game zone, an abandoned part of Los Angeles, divided into four quadrants. Killian reneges on his deal and also sends Laughlin and Weiss into the game. They are first attacked by the stalker Sub-Zero (Professor Toru Tanaka), but Richards garrotes him with a section of razor-wire fencing, the first time a stalker has ever died on the show.
Mendez finds the original, unedited footage of the Bakersfield massacre before she is caught and sent into the game zone, joining the other three contestants. Killian then deploys two stalkers - Buzzsaw (Gus Rethwisch) and Dynamo (Erland Van Lidth) - to hunt the four runners.
Weiss realizes the underground resistance has been searching for the government/TV satellite uplink station in the game show arena. Dynamo electrocutes Weiss, just as he cracks the satellite's security, but Mendez has memorized the access code. Buzzsaw mortally wounds Laughlin, but Richards bisects Buzzsaw with his chainsaw. Dynamo is then incapacitated by Richards, who spares the stalker live on air. Laughlin tells Richards that the resistance has a hidden base in the arena before dying from his wounds. Off the air, Killian offers Richards a position as a stalker, which the enraged Richards refuses.
While hunted by Fireball (Jim Brown), a flamethrower-wielding stalker with a jetpack, Mendez finds the corpses of the show's alleged past "winners", revealing that the show's promises of pardons are all false. Richards saves Mendez and kills Fireball by sabotaging his gas tank and setting him alight with a road flare. Immediately afterward, the pair stumbles into Mick's command center.
With the viewership now cheering for Richards, Killian asks Captain Freedom (Jesse Ventura), a retired stalker and fan favorite, to join the hunt. When Captain Freedom refuses to fight using mechanical weaponry instead of his bare hands, the network doctors old footage to portray Richards and Mendez being killed by Captain Freedom. Mendez and Richards see this on TV. Richards warns Mendez that the government will hunt them to silence them and is now convinced to attack the ICS building with resistance members. Using the access codes, they broadcast the original footage of the Bakersfield massacre and the deceased runners to expose Killian and the government's lies. As the resistance fighters battle ICS security forces, Dynamo tries to rape Mendez, but her gun triggers the building's sprinkler system, which electrocutes him.