The fun market is so full of Great and not so great films by Steven King That the live versions of the work of the mass -fertile horror maestro will, without a doubt, be considered a suber on their own. There are numerous pleasures of guilt or Otherwise undervalued films of King Among them everyone has their own favorite - including the writer himself, who has many clear opinions for which The adaptations of the king are the best.

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Now, another version of live action is to join the steady expansion of the Steven King section of the Cinema annals. "The Long Walk" is one of his Older Works, which has wrapped up in 1967. Published Under king's Walking Contest Among Representatives of the Nation's Youth Grants Its Winner a Boon from An Ominous Militant Figure, The Major (Played in the Adaptation by Mark Hamill), Who Supervises the Contest and May OR May Not Rule the US Supervises The Contest and May OR May Not Rule The US

The story finally receives film treatment, with Francis Lawrence ("Constantine", "I'm Legend", several films "Hunger Games") at the head. In an interview with Vanity fairKing felt it takes so long for the story to make the transition to the screen because all previous attempts have found the story too relentless to adapt:

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"I think maybe what he kept in those other adaptations is that ruthless quality. Someone puts the money on it must have, like," I don't know ... this is difficult. This is painful. ""

The upcoming film "The Long Walk" is really the latest in a very long series of adaptation attempts, and apparently the only successful. People who looked at the opportunity to make a film include horror legend George Romero, a successful director for adaptation of King Frank Darnot of "The Sweet of Shaushank" and "Little", and Norwegian terror expert Andre Øalhunter, Trolhunter, Trolchunter, Trolchunter, Trolchunter, Trolchunter, Trolchunter, Trolchunter, Trolchunter, Trolhunter Janeein to "," The last traveler of the mattress "). Just to find out that someone - he thinks he is a Diper - was already in the case at the time.

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If King's theory of previous planned adaptations is falling apart, it is true, all of these directors have failed to break the case when it comes to balancing dystopian relentlessness of the story - the participants of the title, after all, should go with a minimum of 4 km. King's fans will have to wait for Lawrence approaching the cruelty of King, but judging by the director's comments to Vanity Fair, he certainly understands that the film should be very different from the films for the death of the deaths they worked before:

"InHunger games'Everyone competes in a very different way. There are alliances and you are trying to kill each other. Here, you are no actually trying to kill each other. It is a very different dynamics, in terms of relationships. "

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The "Long Walk" walks in theaters on September 12, 2025.