A few weeks back we passed along the news that Stephen King’s much-beloved novel The Long Walk (which King wrote under his pseudonym Richard Bachman) will be heading to the big screen soon.
He then says the script is “so close to the book” and that “it really honors what Stephen King wrote in a beautiful way,” comparing The Long Walk to a short film he made three years ago called The Tunnel, saying this.
For those unfamiliar with King’s 1979 novel, The Long Walk is said to be the first book King ever finished writing while he was a freshman at the University of Maine.
The filmmaker will be helming the adaptation from a screenplay written by James Vanderbilt (The Amazing Spider-Man, Zodiac).