Taking steps to survive
THE LONG WALK BREAKS ITS CURSE, FINALLY MARCHING INTO CINEMAS
WORDS JOHN NUGENT
Feeling the burn: Garraty (Cooper Hoffman) and McVries (David Jonsson)
THE LONG WALK has been on a long walk. The dystopian novel was among the first written by Stephen King while he was still a student in the 1960s, published in 1979 under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. It detailed a hellish and deadly walking competition in an alternative America, where 100 men compete to walk indefinitely without stopping, with only the last man standing allowed to survive. Multiple filmmakers have tried and failed to bring it to the screen — including George A. Romero and Frank Darabont — but all have failed. Some even considered it unfilmable. Until now.