André Øvredal To Direct Stephen King’s ‘The Long Walk’

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https://deadline.com/2019/05/stephe...ine-movie-andre-ovredal-directing-1202620157/

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark director André Øvredal is set to direct New Line's feature adaptation of Stephen King's The Long Walk.


Originally published by King under the pseudonym Richard Bachman in 1979, The Long Walk takes place in the future in which 100 teenage boys embark on an annual competition known as "The Long Walk." The rules are simple: maintain a speed above four miles per hour.

Receive three warnings in an hour and you're shot dead. The last one walking gets whatever he wants for the rest of his life. Under these grim circumstances the boys develop deep friendships despite knowing that each of their friends' survival is a threat to their own.

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I've wondered why they never made a Long Walk movie; always wanted to see it on screen.

 

[ZackieChan]

Great story. Will be cool to see it on screen.

 

[Fat4all]

the long walk is one of the more interesting Bachman books, and i was wondering when it would get a proper adaptation

 

[Trouble]

Gonna be a tough story to adapt since like 90% of it is in his head.

 

[Officer Big Mac]

This was the first King novel I read. I remember nothing about it.

 

[wideface]

Where we walkin', boys?

 

[Kabuki Waq]

man i remember this being rough. i want a Salems lot adaptation.

 

[Masterspeed]

I can already hear the media calling it "Battle Royale meets Olympics"

 

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man i remember this being rough. i want a Salems lot adaptation.

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Good news! :D

The Long Walk is one of three King adaptations in the works at New Line. The others include Salem's Lot and It: Chapter Two

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[Robdraggoo]

Gonna be fun watching a movie where people are quite literly walking through the run time lol

Im sure it will be filled with flashback or something.

Great book. Never thought it would make a good movie though

 

[Bradbury]

The Long Walk and Gerald´s Game were two books I always thought were impossible to be adapted
Then Gerald´s Game happened. Now I´m hype

 

[SirMossyBloke]

Excellent news, next should be The Jaunt. I would love to see how terrifying that would look on film.

 

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Nice.

One of my favorite books from King, I'm curious to see how they'll do it.

 

[Sheepinator]

I've read it, and I'm not sure how good a movie version could be. I expect a lot of flashbacks, pre-race padding to learn about some of the contestants, and lots of hallucinating. Seems like it would work better being 50-60 minutes long, like a Black Mirror episode.