Francis Lawrence's film adaptation of Stephen King's novel "The Long Walk" is set to trudge into theaters this Friday, and it's got the wind at its back, at least critically, with a current Tomatometer score of 95% fresh at Rotten Tomatoes. ( /Film's BJ Colangelo has declared it an all-time great King adaptation.) We'll have to wait until Friday to see if moviegoers are down for the bleak tale about 100 young men getting drafted into a competition that forces each person to maintain a pace of at least three miles per hour. Should they drop below this pace three times, they will be shot dead. The event continues until there is one survivor, who can have whatever they want, whenever they want it, for the rest of their life.

It's a rough book, and it certainly sounds like Lawrence has do

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