Frank Darawant is responsible for directing three of Steven King's best movie adaptations so far released: "The Shawshank Redemption" since 1994, The Green Mile in 1999 and The Mist in 2007. All three of these films were so well made (and so well accepted) that they would think that he would only continue to make King's films by the end of his career. Tragically, that was not the case, and since the "fog", he was largely out of the movie.

But while he has yet to return to the Steven King Universe after the "fog", he once had plans to adapt to King's novel in 1979 "Long Walk", which is probably a darker story of the king of any of the previous ones. As he explained Hu In 2008:

"Somewhere in a row, I'll be (directed)" Long Walk ", which is another piece of Stephen King (posted under his pseudonym, Richard Bachmann). And when I do it, it will be even a lower budget than the" fog ". Being is strange, existential and highly contained, as the story. A little more than the story. A little more than an art of all.

His plans to adapt to the "long walk" have never been missed, and the story is now brought to the big screen from Francis Lawrence (the fame "hunger games") instead. We do not know exactly what went wrong with the plans of the Diper, but we know that this was not the only disappointment to deal with. Not only did His departure as creator and shower of "The Walking Dead" Come under pretty dark circumstances but his other great dream (To turn "Fahrenheit 451" into a movie) was apparently destroyed by Hollywood.

People have been talking about a potential film "Long Walk" from the moment the book comes out, which is strange because the book (at least on paper) is not that kinematics. The novel is for an annual match in the future where 100 teen boys should go indefinitely; When one of them is too exhausted to go, they are shot. The match continues until only one boy stayed, and every year the winning boy is too exhausted and broken to the end, even to celebrate his victory.

Not only is the premise dark, but the idea of ​​watching people walking for two hours does not look exciting. We have seen many movies and shows with the premise of the reality show playing with life and death, but those stories-"Game of Cash", "Hunger Games" and Even the "running man" (Another King title) - there was much more variety rooted in their premise. At least those poor competitors of "squid play" had to jump a little rope.

But where the book really shines is with how deeply it brings us to the head of the main character. Similar to how someone's mind will wander when they go for a long walk, storytelling of the novel jumps smoothly back and forth between the title and all the little moments of the protagonist's life that led to join. The book also has several hallucinatory sequences, due to the narrator of the story that begins to deteriorate mentally from pure exhaustion.

The gradual loss of characteristic character is something that is best suited for the literary medium in which it was originally shown, but a talented director may be able to do a great job with that material. The jury is still out of how Lawrence will handle it His adaptation "long walk"But there is little doubt that the Diper could have kicked out this from the park.