![]() ![]() If it happens, this blog series may track back to cover it.įor now we cover King’s next book, which has its own brand of odd existentialism. But Darabont eventually let his rights lapse, and in April 2018 New Line Cinema announced that an adaptation would be helmed by James Vanderbilt. ![]() Darabont has directed several other King adaptations and he planned to make The Long Walk into a low-budget existential film that would get weird. George Romero was approached back in 1988 to film an adaptation, but it never came to fruition and eventually Frank Darabont secured the rights. It was actually the first novel King wrote, but it didn’t get published for many years. ![]() If you stop walking, you are gunned down until there is only one contestant left. A weird and existential work, it follows a group of young men who are selected by their military government to participate in a walking competition where they can never stop walking. The next book chronologically was written under the pseudonym Richard Bachman The Long Walk has never received any film adaptations. The Stephen King Book to Screen Blog Series returns, and at long last the Night Shift short story collection, which inspired a largely mediocre bunch of movies, is put to bed! We’re back to covering films based on full-length King novels. ![]()
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