Literary
Ben Richards is the protagonist of The Running Man.
He lives in a world, where the media, particularly the games media (The Network) is controlling everything and a totalitarian state is governing the country. He decides to participate in the Running Man show to help his family with their problems. He was the most successful player. He even defeated the Lead Hunter, for which he was offered the job of taking his place. It was something that was offered to him, because in the meantime his family was murdered. He faked acceptance to destroy the Network in revenge for everything it had done to him, his family and to millions of Americans.
Film
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Ben Richards was played by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
He is the captain of a group of helicopters. He refuses to kill unarmed civilians under the orders of his speriors. That´swhy he was arrested and framed for the later executed crime. He spent 18 months in prison, where he and others stages a prison revolt, which succeeds and gets out of there. He is later arrested again and forced by Killian to play in Running Man, He manages to escape the game and join a Resistance group and tur the tables on Killian, who caused him a lot of damage. He execute Killian for his crimes after exposing them and becomes a heroe for the public. He goes away and the show is closed.
