“Walk until there is only one of you left.”

That deceptively simple command doubles as the premise of The Long Walk, the latest screen adaptation of Stephen King’s work. The source material, a dystopian novel that reads as a clear inspiration for YA fiction a la The Hunger Games, was published early in King’s career, under his pseudonym Richard Bachman. For decades, various filmmakers, including Night of the Living Dead mastermind George Romero, have tried to adapt the story, but it never made it to the big screen until director Francis Lawrence and screenwriter JT Mollner united for the 2025 project. Perhaps the delay stemmed from producers finding the unapologetically grim story challenging, or because the action is not inherently cinematic, but in the hands of Lawrence and Mollner, the

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