The fruitful author of Horror, Steven King, wrote about some beautiful nightmare things during his long career, but one of his earliest works is also among his most brutal. First posted under his pseudonym, Richard Bachmann, in 1979, Long Walk is a deeply disturbing novel for a dystopian alternative that holds us an annual go -for -win competition with only one winner - the last person to go. The "Long Walk" was later gathered in "Bahman Books" and has since been regarded as among the author's most influential works, although it was notorious to adapt to a film or television series. There were many Comparisons with Susan Collins' novels "Hunger Games" and their movie adaptations, but The "Long Walk" is its own unique and truly nasty Astver with its origin in King's personal history.

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Director Francis Lawrence, who has so far used every movie "Games of Hunger", except for the original in 2012, has taken the challenge of overseeing the adaptation of King's novel to Lyonsgate, and that means returning to where it all started. In an interview with Vanity fair, King opened up for the inspiration behind the writing "Long Walk" all those years ago, explaining that it is in a very real, very tangible horror for the young author: the Vietnam War and the US military.

According to Vanity Fair, King started the novel in high school and finished it at college, during which the number of young men entered the military and sent to Vietnam war exponentially. The royal peers were also ready and sent all over the world to fight in absolutely fatal conditions where, even if they returned home, it was extremely unlikely to make it unwavering. King discussed his space at the time, saying:

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"You are writing from your times, of course, it was in my 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. You are full of beans and you are full of cynicism, and that is the way it was."

King does not overdo it; The "long walk" is extremely dark. Has a total boomer at the end That will probably have to change in order for the film to be satisfactory so as not to leave the audience burned, but it is difficult to blame King based on context. If he was not at college at the time, he could have been ready and sent to Vietnam, maybe he died. It is a pretty dark fate to stare at the age of 19, and while King said he was not trying to write a political or social allegory, he absolutely did with the "long walk".

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In the forthcoming film adaptation of "The Long Walk", Mark Hamil Starsevils like the Major, a nibbling military man who is in charge of sending young people out of the title long walk and ensuring that they follow the rules, so as not to be shot. (In the novel, participants in the "competition" must hold a pace of at least four miles per hour and cannot slow down or stand at any time.) It is not a big part to see the similarities between King's situation as a young man in the US in the 1960s and men in the "long walk", which are also sent to their deaths.

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It may be strange for fans of the "Starwell War" to see former Luke Skywalker playing such a wildly different character, but according to Lawrence (talking to Vanity Fair), watching the actor playing the older, dried version of Luke's "Starwells Episode". Not only that, but apparently Hamil also grew up in a military family, which really helped him understand his character.

There are several different projects Based on Steven King's novels in the works, But the "long walk" is shaped to be seriously exciting, even if it should be a pretty miserable time for movies. You can watch the film for yourself when it reaches the theaters on September 12, 2025.

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