2025 is already shaping to be another great year for Steven King fans. With Ozgud Perkins' "monkey" coming out in February, the remaining months were paved with Adaptations to a large screen of "LIFAK" And the "running man", besides the television series based on the Institute. In case it wasn't enough, it seems particularly appropriate that "a long walk, one of King's fastest stories, is finally ready to hit theaters in September by director Francis Lawrence and screenwriter" Strange Mila "HT Maller. Marathons will never be seen the same way again.

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The frightening premise of the "Long Walk" predicts a dystopian future in which a group of young boys volunteer for the title in which the winner is to make a desire for their choice of malicious figure known as Major (Mark Hamil). All they have to do is go, but the catch is that there is no finish - at least not everyone will live to see it. The marathon does not end until only one left. If the participant is lagging behind, they receive three warnings before the bullet seals their fate. Cooper Hoffman ("pizza with limestone") and David Onsonson ("Alien: Romulul") are among the ensemble they take the most important walk from their lives.

The "long walk" feels monumental for many reasons, with one of the most important being her place in the history of King's body of work. Although the novel was not published until Stand in 1979, he is one of the earliest stories of the famous author. It was a high school project that lasted well in his time at the University of Maine and eventually sat on the shelf until he decided to release him under his pseudonym Richard Bachmann for almost a decade after his conception.

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You can see DNA on Long Walk works in "squid play", "Circle" and "Hunger Games", so it makes sense that they got the director of the latter's entries to get stabbed into a serious story of survival, amid huge chances. Some may be wondering why no one has ever been adapted so far, but the truth is that there have been definitely some stakeholders, but for some reason, it has been constantly mixing back and forth.

There is a certain irony in the film adaptation of the "Long Walk" many times before it can be done to the finish line. But unlike the participants in the story, there is no fatal end in sight, but a new beginning of the timely story horizon. Lawrence's work in the "Hunger Games" sequels gives him the advantage of catching the dystopian challenge of King's novel, but there were many times when the film could have made history with a number of great directors.

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The first to Bath was no one but the horror maestro George A. Romero, who was waver in the late 1980s to use the project. Although never ended with materializing, Similar to his moody movie "Goosebumps"You could not ask for a more conscious director to deal with the inhumanity of such an event. Although King did not directly say the war in Vietnam as the central driving force of the "long walk", the senseless slaughter of young Americans sent to fight abroad at the time partially influenced his cynical appearance of the world as a youth (through Vanity fair):

"You are writing from your times so that it was certainly in mind. But I never thought about it consciously; I was writing a kind of brutal thing. It was hopeless, and just what you write when you are 19 years old, man. You are full of beans and you are full of cynicism, and that's the way it was."

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With Romero rejecting the project, the next one was Frank Dar of in the late 2000s, which you are likely to recognize as director of such beloved royal adaptations as "The Shawshank Redemption", "Green Mile" and "Fog". From the author's adapted work, The Dardan was among the best directors who understood the King's material and, in such cases, better. It is especially a bumper that did not happen because, aside from several episodes on television, he did not direct a feature for nearly two decades.

Plans to adapt to the "long walk" were even close to 2019, with "Terrible stories to tell in the dark," director Andre Øvredal Set to undertake the project for the new cinema. Although not as a prominent director as a Romero or Dardot, Øredal has a great visual talent that could bring the hopeless story to life. Unfortunately, the project will migrate to Lyonsgate in 2023, besides Lawrence, taking over duties. But in an interesting turnaround, there was a time when Lawrence almost got a chance to make the film much earlier.

In 2006, Lawrence announced his adaptation to the DC Comics' character "Constantine" and worked on the version of the seminal post-apocalyptic novel by Richard Matton "I am a legend" for Warner Bros. in an interview with Diversity FairLawrence reveals that he tried to make the big screen on the "long walk" reality around this time:

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"It crossed my desk in 2006, around the time I was doing" I'm a legend ". The guy who wrote "I'm Legend" was one of the producers - Akiva Goldsman, who is now my friend.

Between the "long walk" and The upcoming "Games of Hunger: Sunrise of harvest", Lawrence seems to have hit the market with stories of young people who face the anger of cold -blooded regimes for fun. But his previous work in the "Hunger Games" universe shows a director who knows how to discover the emotional complexities of such a disturbing problem. The story of the king essentially sets a story about 1 person walking together and, in some cases, to hang out with 99 spirits. What could be more daunting than the story that comes to age, which guarantees that most of these children will not see the future?

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With each of his extensions "Hunger Games", Lawrence expresses the range of layers that demystify the fascist stronghold of Capitol and its effects on the citizens of Panem by exploring what makes people commit such cruelty. It only makes it an interesting candidate for such a dark story and I can't wait to see how it brings these instincts to this.

The "Long Walk" should hit theaters on September 12, 2025.