Each version of Stephen King’s The Long Walk that has not been made

2025 is already formed to be another large year for Stephen King’s fans. With the appearance of Osgood Perkins’ The Monkey “in February, the remaining months are paved Large modifications on the screen “Hayat Chuck” And “The Running Man”, in addition to a TV series based on “The Institute”. If this is not enough, it seems especially appropriate that “The Long Walk, one of the best King’s stories, was finally appointed to strike theaters in September from director Francis Lawrence and strange” jt molner. The marathon will not be seen in the same way again.

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The horrific hypothesis of “The Long Walk” imagines a broad future in which a group of young boys volunteer in the luxurious event in which the winner gets a desire to choose them from a fateful character known as Major (Mark Hamill). All they have to do is walk, but hunting is that there is no finish line – at least all of them will not live. The marathon does not end until there is only one left. If the participant falls behind, they get three warnings before the bullet of their fate seals. Cooper Hoffman (“Pizza Pizza”) and David Johnson (“Foreign: Romulus”) It is among the group that takes the most important picnic in their lives.

“The Long Walk” feels huge for a number of reasons, with one of its most important place in history between the king’s work. Although the novel was not published until the “Stand” in 1979, it is one of the oldest famous author stories. It was a high school project that lasted at the time at Maine University, and eventually sat on a shelf until he decided to launch it under the name of Richard Bakhanmann after a decade has passed almost.

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You can see the “Long Walk” DNA works in “Squid”, “ “Circle” and “The Hunger Games”, so it makes sense to be the output of the latter’s entries to take a stab in a terrible story to stay amid overwhelming possibilities. Some people may ask why no one has adapted yet, but the fact is that there is certainly some interested parties, but for one reason or another, it continued to mix them back and forth.

There is a specific paradox in the film’s adaptation to “The Long Walk”, which is heading several times before you can reach the finish line. But unlike the participants in the story, there is no fatal end on the horizon, but rather a new start on the horizon of the time of time. Lawrence’s work in continuing “Hunger Games” gives him an advantage to capture the challenge of King’s novel, but there was several times when the film could have made a history with a group of great movie makers.

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The first one to the bats was nothing but horror Maestro George A. Romero, which was moved in the late 1980s to lead the project. Although it did not end with embodiment, It is very similar to his movie “The cry of horror” unustedYou could not request a more socially awareness film director to address the inhumanity of such an event. Although the king does not directly mention the Vietnam War as the central driving force of “The Long Walk”, the slaughter of the meaningless American youth has affected at that time at that time on his sarcastic view of the world as young people (through youth Vanity Fair):

“You are writing from your time, so it was certain that this was in mind. But I never thought about it consciously; I was writing a kind of brutal thing. It was hopeless, and what you write when you are nineteen years old, man. You are full of beans and you are full of mockery, and this is the case.”

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With Romero’s refusal of the project, Frank Darabont was in the late first decade of the twentieth century, which is likely to be recognized as a manager of such loved ones like “The Shawshank Redemption”, “The Green Mile” and “The Mist”. From the author’s adapted work, Dubont was among the best movie makers to understand King’s materials, and in such cases, to improve them. It is particularly Bomer that this did not happen because, along with some episodes of TV, it has not been a feature for nearly two decades.

The “Long Walk” plans were closer to 2019 “Fear stories that you tell in the dark,” director Andre Overidal He was appointed to take over the project for the new line cinema. Although he is not prominent in the movie “Romero or Darbont”, ØVredal has a great visual taste that could have led to desperate life. Unfortunately, the project will move to Lionsgate in 2023, in addition to Lawrence’s assumption of guidance duties. But at an interesting turn of events, there was a point while Lawrence got the opportunity to make the movie much earlier.

In 2006, Lawrence released his adaptation to the character DC Comics “Constantine” and was working on a screen version of Richard Matthesson after the terrible “I am a legend” Larner Bruce in an interview with Exhibition diversityLawrence reveals that at this time he tried his hand to make the large screen version of “The Long Walk”: The truth:

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“I crossed my office in 2006, soon by making” I am a legend. “The man who wrote” I am a legend “was one of the producers – Akiva Goldsman, who is now a friend of mine.

Between “long walk” and The next “The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reping”, Lawrence seems to have besieged the market with stories about young people who face cold blood systems for entertainment. But his previous work in the world of “Gunger Games” shows a cinematic director who knows how to reveal the emotional complications of such a worrying impasse. The King Story story mainly prepares a story for one person walking side by side, and in some cases, 99 ghosts befriended. What could be more horrific than a coming story that guarantees that most of these children will not see in the future?

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With everyone who continues “hunger games”, Lawrence sits into a variety of layers that remove mystery from the fascist stronghold from the Capitol and its effects on the citizens of Banim by exploring what leads people to commit such cruelty. This alone makes him an interesting candidate for such a bleak story, and I cannot wait to find out how these instincts carry this.

The “The Long Walk” was appointed to hit theaters on September 12, 2025.