Screenwriter J.T. Mollner, who beforehand wrote Strange Darling, is thoughtful in regards to the Hall H-breaking response their movie had, in addition to what it says in regards to the bigger impression of the film they made.
“When I was a kid and I was 12 or 13, and I couldn’t get in a movie because I heard the movie was too rough for people my age, it made me want to see it immediately,” Mollner says. “So the beauty of this movie, and the way Francis handled it, is the brutality, the intensity, the terror. It’s all shown honestly. It would be obscene to not show it honestly, but it never feels gratuitous. And I think that’s a fine line and a great balance, and Francis went all the way.”
Indeed, Mollner acknowledges that whereas Lawrence labored on each Hunger Games movie between 2013’s Catching Fire and subsequent yr’s upcoming Sunrise on the Reaping, The Long Walk was one thing else (and a film that Lawrence previously told us he wished to make even earlier than there was a Hunger Games). The screenwriter doesn’t assume he may adapt Suzanne Collins authentically, and but when Lawrence and producer Roy Lee got here to him to put in writing The Long Walk, it appeared like an eerily good match.
“My first Stephen King book is Carrie. I was seven years old and I made it through the whole book,” Mollner remembers. “I found it in a used bookstore… and I got sent to the principal’s office because I had that book on my desk in the second grade. From that point on, I was a constant reader. I revere Stephen King. I religiously read his new book that usually comes out once a year, right around his birthday and mine, which is in September. And The Long Walk is just one of the books I read at some point. I think I was in my late teens or early 20s, and it had a profound effect on me.”
The story of The Long Walk is an easy and grim one: 100 younger boys volunteer to be “Long Walkers,” younger males who’re televised as they stroll for so long as they’ll throughout the nice state of Maine and into New Hampshire. No one will get any additional although, as a result of the second one walks beneath three miles per hour (or 4 within the guide), he will get a warning. After the third warning, he will get a bullet.
A paterfamilias to The Hunger Games, Squid Game, Battle Royale, and a slew of different imitators and descendants, King’s unique story is nightmarish for its simplicity. There’s no actual technique per se, nor even conscription. Young children join this by alternative—and, maybe, as a result of the lone winner will probably be granted wealth and no matter their “heart desires.”
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