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Why adapting Stephen King’s bleak novel The Long Walk was so hard

Why adapting Stephen King’s bleak novel The Long Walk was so hard

Update: 2025-09-11
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For decades, Stephen King fans have been clamouring for a movie adaptation of his dystopian horror novel “The Long Walk.” Now, 46 years after it was first published, the iconic story will finally hit the big screen. Director Francis Lawrence (The Hunger Games, I Am Legend) joins guest host Talia Schlanger to discuss the film, the surprising difficulty of making a movie where all the characters will walk and die, and how his old career as an acclaimed music video director shapes his work today.

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Why adapting Stephen King’s bleak novel The Long Walk was so hard

Why adapting Stephen King’s bleak novel The Long Walk was so hard