Darabont’s Long Walk

Last Updated on July 27, 2021

Director Frank Darabont is hot off the set of THE MIST, but the man is itching to adapt another King work. Darabont has expressed interest in adapting Stephen King’s novella THE LONG WALK for quite sometime, and he’s still pushing for it.



That is one of the stories that I have been keeping in my hip pocket. One of Steve [King’s] weirdest and most provocative stories. I really love it, and I am going to make that in the next few years,” Darabont said of “The Long Walk,” a Stephen King classic originally published in 1979. “It is one that stays with you.”

If you don’t know anything about THE LONG WALK, it takes place in a dystopian alternate America, where 100 random teenagers are chosen every year to walk from Maine down the East Coast. Each “contestant” has to keep up a constant speed of at least 4 miles per hour, and the last one standing wins. First prize? First prize is you get whatever you want. Second through Hundredth prize? Second through hundredth prize is you’re dead.

Darabont also adds on how he would approach the subject of these characters constantly moving and that it wouldn’t really require a rediculous budget. Click here to read the entire article over at MTV