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Comment on Stephen King adaptation The Long Walk adds nine to cast including Mark Hamill and Judy Greer

southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Man, I hope they don’t fuck this up.

The long walk is a dark, ugly story, but it’s also one of King’s best. There’s flaws in it, and there’s parts that just aren’t movie possible unless they go for a hard R rating out of the gate (and they should), but it merits a proper adaptation rather than just using the name and basic premise to make some shit the way a lot of book-to-movies happen.

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Rolando@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Really this should be a play first. Imagine a production that takes place on a large treadmill with a rear-projection screen in the background. Sounds crazy, but dialogue is really important here, and it’d be a chance to nail that down.

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Windex007@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I think the issues with adaptation are far deeper than the rating. I recall that I read this book cover to cover in one sitting, it was able to inspire the terror of stopping or slowing as a participant.

The story takes place almost exclusively in the protagonists head.

Also, they don’t really do a deep dive… even a shallow dive into the structure of this dystopian world, unlike the world building like in something like hunger games or star wars.

I agree that a stage adaptation would probably work better than a Hollywood production… Where they’re going to for sure make significant changes to important story features just to make it work on the screen.

They’re going to make it a really really bad hunger games. Ultimately that’s what I think will happen.

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- southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah, that’s what I’m worried about. The whole dystopian teenager death thing has been done to death. I really think that trying to flesh out the world will make it go that route.
  
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