00:00Recently watching 1983 Italian post-apocalyptic action film Endgame, directed by Joe D'Amato, starring Al Cliver.
00:12The opening, highly reminiscent of Stephen King's A Dystopian Thriller, The Running Man.
00:19He wrote this under the pen name Richard Bachman, published in 82.
00:25An actor's appearance who really stood out to me in this was Alberto Del Acquas.
00:32He plays Gabe Mantrax, one of the gladiatorial-like hunters.
00:38I thought he may resemble actor Robert Downey Jr., possibly another actor, actress, or group.
00:46My guess is Jenny Agutter.
00:48She and Downey were together in the cast of Marvel Cinematic Universe comic book superhero film The Avengers in 2012.
00:58Another possibility, perhaps Australian actor Steve Bisley, who played Jim Goose in Mad Max in 79.
01:07Gibson and Downey acted together in the 1990 action comedy Air America.
01:13Now, amazingly, there is a character in Endgame named Stark.
01:19Downey, of course, played Tony Stark, the real identity of superhero Iron Man in Endgame.
01:25Also, the title of the fourth Avengers movie, released in 2019.
01:31To The Running Man, the 1987 film adaptation starred Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonso, and Richard Dawson.
01:42There's a Marvel connection through actor Nicolas Cage.
01:46Alonso and Cage were in 1989 comedy Vampire's Kiss, also set in New York City.
01:54Cage played Marvel superhero Ghost Rider in the 2007 film and Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengeance in 2012.
02:05Now, this bit of trivia has some applications to the near present.
02:11Downey will play a new Marvel character, the supervillain Doctor Doom, in Avengers Doomsday later this year.
02:21This is scheduled to be released on December 18th.
02:24I did some other videos on the subject of The Running Man, which was readapted and released late last year
02:31on November 14th.
02:33Starring Lee Pace, William H. Macy, and Michael Cera.
02:37Now, Pace played the MCU character Ronan the Accuser in sci-fi film Guardians of the Galaxy in 2014.
02:47Actor Josh Brolin plays Dan Killian in The New Running Man.
02:53And time-traveling mutant Cable Nathan Summers in Deadpool 2 in 2018.
03:00Starring Ryan Reynolds.
03:01And I thought there may be some clues to Cable, the new mutants, and X-Force in Endgame 83.
03:10Note the face paint on the characters.
03:13The makeup may resemble the light that's depicted coming out of Cable's eye, for example.
03:20Scope.
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