The Long Walk
The forthcoming film adaptation of Stephen King ’s novelThe Long Walkhas find its director . Published in 1979 under his pseudonym Richard Bachman , King ’s book is set in a dystopian future tense America under totalistic regulation where 100 teen boys compete in an annual walk contest - the nominal farsighted walk . During the competition , they must keep a walk speed of four miles per hour . Failure to do so results in a warning , and receive three warnings in an hour gets you shoot down dead . It ’s forbidding , brutal and a quintessentially Stephen King story .
New Line first confirm they weredeveloping an adaption ofThe Long Walkover a year ago , with a book by screenwriter James Vanderbilt ( The Amazing Spider - Manmovies , Independence Day : Resurgence ) , who would co - produce alongside Bradley Fischer and William Sherak . The studio ’s adaption of King’sITin 2017 was a massive success , with the film outranking The Exorcist asthe highest - gross radius - rated repulsion movieof all time . Another Stephen King adaptation makes perfect sentience .
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It ’s been a while since New Line update horror fans on the status ofThe Long Walk , butDeadlinehas now confirmed that the studio has lease Norwegian filmmaker André Øvredal to organise . Øvredal has a strong background in the horror genre having directedTrollhunterandThe Autopsy of Jane Doe . He ’s also helming the shortly - to - be release horrorScary tarradiddle to secern In the Dark , co - drop a line and co - produced by Oscar - winning manager Guillermo del Toro .
New Line ’s adaptation ofThe Long Walkis just one of three Stephen King adaptations the studio currently has in the kit and boodle . Later this year the studio will releaseIT : Chapter Two- the long - awaited continuation toIT- whichKing has already discover and given his Navy SEAL of approval . They also recentlygreenlit an adjustment of King ’s classical vampire taleSalem ’s Lotwith James Wan produce andITscreenwriter Gary Dauberman penning the playscript .
King adaptations are all the rage in Hollywood at the moment . Just within the past twosome of yearsThe Dark Tower , Gerald ’s GameandPet Semataryhave all gotten the feature treatment -Pet Semataryfor the second time . The film diligence ’s love affair with the repulsion writer shew no sign of stopping either . Alongside New Line ’s three movies , there will also be adaption ofDoctor SleepandIn the Tall Grass(a novella King penned with his writer son Joe Hill ) released later this yr . Adaptations ofThe Tommyknockers , The StandandLisey ’s Storyare also in the works .
Any film fan who ’s seen a few film based on King ’s works can attest that while some of them are amazing , other King adaptations are n’t so majuscule . However , with New Line ’s experience conform bothITmovies and director André Øvredal ’s horror background , The Long Walkmight just grow out to be one of the beneficial adaptations .
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Source : Deadline
