Film, TV or Theatrical Adaptations
"Battleground" was converted to a teleplay by Richard Christian Matheson for the television series Nightmares & Dreamscapes. Originally airing on Wednesday July 12, 2006, the episode was directed by Brian Henson and starred William Hurt as Renshaw the assassin. There is no dialogue in the entire episode.
The episode featured a longer ending than the short story, in which Renshaw is attacked again and makes it out of the penthouse for a final showdown in the elevator shaft with an angry plastic commando (played by an uncredited Bill Barretta). Renshaw defeats the final commando, only to find it had armed a thermonuclear weapon that then explodes and kills him.
It was also made into an animated short film, Srazhenie (Russian: Сражение) - see External Links - by the Soviet Kievnauchfilm studio in 1986, directed by Mikhail Titov.
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