Comment on Stephen King adaptation The Long Walk adds nine to cast including Mark Hamill and Judy Greer
Windex007@lemmy.world 3 months agoI 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.
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.