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The Long Walk
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The Long Walk
October 12, 2019 at 8:28 am
The Long Walk by Stephen King (Richard Bachman) is FINALLY going to be made as a movie.

It's one of my favorite SK stories - and have felt it could be an outstanding movie - even on a low budget.

I hope they do the story justice.


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RE: The Long Walk
October 12, 2019 at 8:49 am
Dang, I was hoping for some Chosin action.
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RE: The Long Walk
October 12, 2019 at 8:53 am
Other than Eyes of the Dragon, I've never made it all the way through a Stephen King book.

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RE: The Long Walk
October 12, 2019 at 9:26 am (This post was last modified: October 12, 2019 at 9:26 am by onlinebiker.)
(October 12, 2019 at 8:53 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Other than Eyes of the Dragon, I've never made it all the way through a Stephen King book.

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There is only a couple that I didn't.

I think I paid at least part of his kid's college tuition...


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RE: The Long Walk
October 12, 2019 at 11:21 am (This post was last modified: October 12, 2019 at 11:22 am by Fake Messiah.)
No way! There's an actual novel by King that hasn't been made into a movie? What is this world turning into?
Really, what is it about his books that they all need to be made and pre-made into movies and TV shows? If you go to his IMDb page you see like 20 movies a year in his writing credits. I don't think that even King himself watches all of them.
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RE: The Long Walk
October 12, 2019 at 11:22 am
Let’s not get too excited until the cameras actually start to roll. Bear in mind, George Romero once had the rights to it... and that was before I was even born!
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RE: The Long Walk
October 12, 2019 at 12:01 pm
(October 12, 2019 at 11:21 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: No way! There's an actual novel by King that hasn't been made into a movie? What is this world turning into?
Really, what is it about his books that they all need to be made and pre-made into movies and TV shows? If you go to his IMDb page you see like 20 movies a year in his writing credits. I don't think that even King himself watches all of them.

Uh..

He has fans?


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RE: The Long Walk
October 12, 2019 at 7:43 pm
I think Steven King would be boring as fuck in RL.
Ask how he wants his coffee and he'd take fifteen fucking pages to tell you.
But apart from his over-descriptiveness, The guy knew how to think up a good and original storyline.




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RE: The Long Walk
October 12, 2019 at 8:41 pm
(October 12, 2019 at 8:53 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Other than Eyes of the Dragon, I've never made it all the way through a Stephen King book.

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Fantastic book!
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RE: The Long Walk
October 12, 2019 at 10:12 pm
(October 12, 2019 at 7:43 pm)Little lunch Wrote: I think Steven King would be boring as fuck in RL.
Ask how he wants his coffee and he'd take fifteen fucking pages to tell you.
But apart from his over-descriptiveness, The guy knew how to think up a good and original storyline.

Funny thing about that: what you read as over-descriptive in his books? That's actually the whittled down version. According to On Writing, he says he usually has a mark of cutting down the first draft by 10%. And that struck me as strange, because whenever I showed my first drafts to my professors, they invariably said I should increase my descriptions.
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