[quote=Aaron;52480]It's great Aaron..... right up to the point where one of them dies of a heart-attack from the fright!Originally Posted by jhanic
Have to agree with what a lot of you are saying here - there's a lot of capacity to really screw-up on this one.
And also that public-perception issue.... hard to overcome.
What a bunch of dicks, they should just crawl back under the rock they came fromDing ding ding ding we have a winner!
I thing you are EXACTLY right, NK - there's going to be a huge pubic outcry about killing innocent children, due to the fact that the loudest complainers will be people who have no idea what the story is really about.
Bummer.
I was definately excited to hear about this. It's one of my favorite King stories, and like someone else already mentioned, with Frank directing it, it should be given good treatment. If it was any other director then I would probably really worry about what they would do to the story.
I just hope the movie makers stay true to Richard Bachman's original story, just like they did with Running Man... Oh.
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I just hope the movie makers stay true to Richard Bachman's original story, just like they did with Running Man... Oh.
SO! - it's Arnie to play Ray Garraty then??
The Long Walk brought to life
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/art...wswell|text||s
The assignment: keep at least a three-mile an hour walking pace for a distance of just over 23 miles from Indianola High School to Carlisle and back.
This was the challenge issued to Indianola High School American literature students who were reading Stephen King’s novel, The Long Walk, a story that highlights endurance and perseverance.
“It’s one thing to read about having to endure, it’s another to actually feel it,” said Greta Southall, who coordinated the walk with fellow English teachers, Kevin Barnes and Vicky Brenner.
The three teachers called the idea a “literature to life” experience, and they strived to follow the book as closely as possible. In the book, walkers must maintain a four mile per hour pace. “The Major,” symbolizing a possible military or fascist state system, appears throughout the book to push the walkers on. The high school walk enforced a three-mile per hour walking time. The Major was played by assistant principal John Taylor, who wore fatigues and the walk began with a speech by Mayor Ken Bresnan.
Barnes said he felt the project really helped to get the students excited about reading.
“It definitely made the book a lot more intriguing,” said Tyler Nicholson, junior, who participated in the walk. “Because when you were reading it, you were thinking, ‘We are going to be doing this’, it made it more interesting.”
Brighton Brandt and Kegan Talbot, both juniors, agreed with Nicholson.
“It really put things into perspective,” said Brandt after completing the walk. “It was pretty hard.”
“And we only did one small part, in the book they walked so much further,” said Talbot. In the book, the walk began near Canada and finished in Massachusetts. No rests or breaks were allowed in the fictional version of the walk.
140 students signed up to participate in the Long Walk, said Barnes, and those who were unable or elected not to were given other assignments. However, he said he was impressed with the number of students who attempted the feat.
“I’m very proud of the students who are willing to try,” said Southall. “Even if they only get to Banner (state park) before they drop out, they get full credit.”
The walk, which followed the Summerset trail to Carlisle, was divided into several sections to allow students who needed to stop, or who did not keep above the three-mile-an-hour pace, to be transported back to the school, said Southall.
“We had a huge number of students make it all the way to Carlisle,” said Brenner. “I’m so proud of them. They did great.”
Roger Netsch, a teacher who volunteered to help monitor the walkers via bike, said he sensed a lot of the students didn’t expect it to be as difficult as it was.
“I think 65 or maybe 70 kids dropped out at Carlisle. Then maybe another 30 or 35 dropped out at Banner on the way back, and maybe 30 or so made it the whole way,” he said.
Ovan Garcia, who was the first student to make it all the way back to the high school, said he was surprised by how difficult it was.
“It was a lot harder than I expected. I felt like I was going so much slower on my way back," he said. “I don't think a lot of people made it the whole way."
Garcia said his competitive nature that kept him going.
“I had blisters and I got cramps. I thought about dropping out, but I really wanted to finish the whole thing," he said. “It was a cool assignment. I liked it."
The teachers agree that the Long Walk was a success and hope to host round two next year.
“The school has been really supportive," said Brenner. “I think the experience really helps the students relate to the main theme of the book. Which is exactly what we hope for.“
“Next year I hope it rains," said Southall. "That would add a whole other level to the lesson on enduring!“
Every 3 months or so, my boss do a "trail", which is a very long walk/ run. For instance 100km, or 24hours or whatever.
It does ALWAYS makes me think about The Long Walk...
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I sure hope Talbot was misquoted and meant "farther".“And we only did one small part, in the book they walked so much further,” said Talbot.
Excellent project. I like it a lot.
I was just gonna post this. Pretty cool idea.
Next up: The Running Man!
I would like to try at least a part of the long walk. I'd like to try to go 24 hours and see what it's like trying to walk through your sleep. IMO that would be the worst part. Well, taking a poop in the road while people were watching would actually be the worst part.
Blatant ripoff of The Long Walk
Hey, if this is the closest we'll get to a Long Walk movie, I'll take it! It doesn't look too bad.
Eh, "blatant" is reaching. It's a competition to the death with only one winner. It's been done before.
Looks pretty entertaining actually, I'd watch it.
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Looks good. Certainly similar.
Looks good!
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The Long Walk movie in development
>>> http://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3...ngs-long-walk/If Stephen King‘s name is on it, you can expect that Hollywood wants their hands on it right now. As it turns out, the same is true even when King’s name is *not* technically on it, as THR reports tonight that New Line is developing an adaptation of The Long Walk, one of the books King penned under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.
James Vanderbilt (Truth) is writing the screenplay for New Line, the studio behind IT, and will produce with Bradley Fischer and William Sherak.
“First published in 1979, The Long Walk is set in future dystopian America ruled by an authoritarian. The country holds an annual walking contest in which 100 teens must journey, non-stop and under strict rules, until only one of them is still standing alive and receiving a prize. The story told of a 16-year old walker named Raymond Garraty and the teens, some good, some bad, some mysterious, in his orbit.”
Tracey Nyberg will exec produce.
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Looking forward to seeing it.
One of my all time favorites... Definitely looking forward to this
It will be interesting to see how they put this together. My guess is there will be a good amount of material added to the front portion of this story.
Hope Darabont is able to direct, I know he's been wanting to.
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I would really hate to see them pad it out with backstory; the limits on what the reader/viewer knows are part of the atmosphere. If we see emotional scenes with parents/siblings at home during a lead-up period, TLW will take a big step in the direction of every other teen dystopian movie, and there are a lot of them (the key is to keep this from feeling like any of those - it should be stark, spare, bare bones - the opposite of Hunger Games and all the rest).
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This x1000. It should be a minimalist film with unknown actors. Hell, I would even prefer it in black and white!I would really hate to see them pad it out with backstory; the limits on what the reader/viewer knows are part of the atmosphere. If we see emotional scenes with parents/siblings at home during a lead-up period, TLW will take a big step in the direction of every other teen dystopian movie, and there are a lot of them (the key is to keep this from feeling like any of those - it should be stark, spare, bare bones - the opposite of Hunger Games and all the rest).
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