The horrors of real life that inspired Stephen King’s long walking

Fine -horror author Stephen King wrote about some beautiful nightmare things throughout his long career, but one of his first works is among the most brutal. It was first published under his pseudonym, Richard Bakhanman, in 1979, “The Long Walk” is a very disturbing novel about the Dystopian alternative to the annual walking competition with only one winner – the last person to walk. “The Long Walk” was later collected in “The Bachman Books”, and since then it has become appreciated among the most influential work of the author, although it was very difficult to adapt to a movie or TV series. There was a lot of Committees suitable for SUNGER Games’ “The Hunger Games” And adapting them movies, however “The Long Walk” is its really unique and bad monster With its origins in the history of the personal king.

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Director Francis Lawrence, who hired all the movie “Hunger Games” so far, has faced Save for the Original 2012, the challenge of overseeing the adaptation of King For Lionsgate novel, and this means returning to where everything began. In an interview with Vanity Fair, King has opened out of inspiration behind the writing of “The Long Walk” throughout those years, explaining that he was headquartered in a very real and tangible horror for the young author: Vietnam War and the American Military Hand.

According to Vanity Fair, King began the novel at high school and finished it in college, and during that time, the number of young people who were formulated in the army and sent to the war in Vietnam grew in a large way. Likewise, King’s peers were formulated and sent all over the world to fight in very devastating conditions where, even if they returned home alive, they were unlikely to return them safely. The king discussed the space of his head at the time, saying:

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

The king does not exaggerate things. “The Long Walk” is exceptionally dark. It has a total problem for the end It is possible that this will be changed in order to make the film satisfy enough to not let the fans feel burning, but it is difficult to blame the king based on the context. If the college is not at the same time, it is possible to form and send it to Vietnam, and may die. This is a largely dark fate for staring at the age of 19, and while King said he was not trying to write a symbolic political or social, he did so completely with “The Long Walk”.

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In the next movie “The Long Walk”, “The Long Walk”, Mark Hamiel plays the role of a pioneer, a reckless military man responsible for sending young people to long walking and ensuring that the rules are followed, for fear of shooting them. (In the novel, the participants in the “competition” must maintain a pace of no less than four miles per hour and cannot slow down or stop at any time)

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It may seem strange to see former “Star Wars” fans Luke Sky Walker playing a completely different role, but according to Lawrence (speaks with Vanity Fair), the actor’s vision plays the old version that was listed from Luke in “Star Wars: Episode Viii – The Last Jedi” helped the director see how this actress will work. Not only that, but it seems that Hamil also arose in a military family, which really helped him to understand his personality.

There are quite a few different projects Based on Stephen King’s novels in business, But “The Long Walk” is to be dangerously exciting, even if it could be a very miserable time in movies. You can watch the movie yourself when it reaches theaters on September 12, 2025.

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