Music - The Running Man ; the Deluxe Edition is now avaliable

By Mulder, 12 june 2020

In the year 2019, America is a totalitarian state where the favorite television program is The Running Man—a game show in which prisoners must run to freedom to avoid a brutal death. Having been made a scapegoat by the government, an imprisoned Ben Richards (Arnold Schwarzenegger) has the opportunity to make it back to the outside again by being a contestant on the deadly show, although the twisted host, Damon Killian (Richard Dawson) has no intention of letting him escape.

The Running Man (Deluxe Edition), was composed by GRAMMY-winning composer Harold Faltermeyer (Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun, Cop Out, and the upcoming film Top Gun: Maverick). The original (1987) 17-track album has been expanded to 35 tracks, which include additional music and unreleased and alternate cues. The album was remastered from the original Paramount Pictures sources. The package features original artwork, images from the film and a booklet with extensive liner notes by film music journalist Daniel Schweiger.

Harold Faltermeyer on this special deluxe edition release: “Scoring The Running Man was a rather big challenge. After the urban and bouncy score for Beverly Hills Cop, and the epic and heroic score for Top Gun, I was facing a new territory. The Running Man needed a dark, ominous sound design with a new sound library we had to create. It was fun working on this movie and it‘s great to see that after all these years, there is still a vivid interest. I was very delighted when I heard that Varèse Sarabande would be releasing the entire score!”

Tracklist :
01 - Logo-Bakersfield (full-length version) (3:00)
02 - Fight/Escape (3:51)
03 - Game Show Promo (0:36)
04 - Laughlin’s Collar/Richards’ Collar (2:00)
05 - Network (0:36)
06 - Richards’ Apt. Sneak (1:13)
07 - Captain Freedom’s Workout (1:56)
08 - Airport Chase (1:26)
09 - Medical Checkup (2:23)
10 - Richards’ Intro (0:49)
11 - Hawaii/Amber Sneaks/Richards’ Betrayal/Blast Off (2:00)
12 - Richards Lands /Come On Down (1:25)
13 - Subzero Intro (1:58)
14 - Subzero (3:55)
15 - Count’s Aria Marriage Of Figaro (instrumental version of Dynamo’s theme) (0:40)
16 - Uplink/Amber Launch/Richards Grabs Amber (2:55)
17 - Buzzsaw Dynamo (1:51)
18 - Buzzsaw Attack (1:54)
19 - Weiss Finds Uplink (1:17)
20 - Buzzsaw-Richards Fight (1:55)
21 - Valkyrie Intro/Valkyrie” (2:37) (composed by Harold Faltermeyer and Richard Wagner)
22 - Spare Dynamo/Laughlin Dies (2:22)
23 - Fireball Intro (1:23)
24 - Fireball Chase (2:04)
25 - Fireball-Amber (2:09)
26 - Death March (0:48) (composed by Jackie Jackson and Glen Barbee)
27 - Fake Death (1:37)
28 - Mick/Richards Amber (1:40)
29 - Broadcast Attack (5:06)
30 - Killian Is Launched (unreleased version) (0:55)
31 - Revolution/End Credits (alternate version of “Intro-Bakersfield”) (1:59)
32 - Intro-Bakersfield (2:02)
33 - Captain Freedom’s Workout (full-length version) (2:27)
34 - Massacre Highlights (1:09)

Purchase: https://www.varesesarabande.com/collections/cd-club

Synopsis Running man :
In a dystopian America, a falsely convicted policeman gets his shot at freedom when he must forcibly participate in a TV game show where convicts, runners, must battle killers for their freedom.

The Running Man
Directed by Paul Michael Glaser
Produced by George Linder, Tim Zinnemann
Screenplay by Steven E. de Souza
Based on The Running Man by Richard Bachman
Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, María Conchita Alonso, Yaphet Kotto, Richard Dawson
Music by Harold Faltermeyer
Cinematography : Thomas Del Ruth
Edited by John Wright, Mark Warner, Edward A. Warschilka
Production company : Braveworld Productions, Taft Entertainment, HBO Pictures
Distributed by TriStar Pictures
Release date : November 13, 1987 (United States)
Running time : 101 minutes

(Source : press release)