

The regular people are poor and suffering in ways that one would never want to imagine.įor Ben Richards, he’s going through a particularly rough time. Times are very hard as the societal setup is very dystopian indeed. But he is a broke man in his late twenties with a wife and an infant child of eighteen months. In the novel, Ben Richards is still the main character.

This demand was adhered to and we were given what is often touted as one of Arnie’s best movies of that era, alongside with films like Total Recall (1990). However, if you know the true meat of the real story, honestly, he’d be one of the last people that you would cast for this role. King disliked the drastic differences so much that he demanded that his name not be used in the marketing of the film at all. The film was made in 1987, five years after the first printing of the novel itself. This is one of those cases where the book is very different than the film.
