The Big Picture One game that's fun to play is to try and imagine how much money has been spent, in total, adapting the work of Stephen King to the screen. A billion dollars? Ten billion? America's master of horror is a prolific writer, and it seems that as soon as he's set his idea to paper, there's a plan to adapt it into a limited series. Some of his work has been adapted multiple times.
The story covers the events of a single iteration of the Long Walk. We follow Ray Garraty, a 16-year-old from Maine , and meet several of the other Walkers through his perspective — some kind, some sadistic, and some mysterious. What begins as a physical endurance test becomes a psychological test as well. The kids, all of whom have signed up voluntarily, become friends, but must learn not to help each other as their bodies wear out, because it prolongs all of their suffering.
2:38 Related If Any '80s Stephen King Movie Needs a Remake, It's This One This 1983 movie based on a King novel has lost some of its bite. James Vanderbilt, who wrote the script for David Fincher's highly acclaimed true crime thriller Zodiac, before pivoting into more mainstream horror in the rebooted Scream franchise, was the next writer up. A longtime fan of the story, Vanderbilt had reportedly written a draft on spec even while Darabont still had the rights.
The more interesting question to ask is if there is something special about the source material that fans should be keen to protect. For example, The Long Walk, notably, does not explain how its dystopian world came about, leaving that to the imagination. An adaptation that decides to shoehorn in a lot of additional backstory would be disappointing.
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