“I knew that I was a piece of this puzzle, and I knew I was just a part of the tapestry, and that I was going to be able to contribute the source material for him to go but then watch him do his thing.” I thought we were going to wait a long time for him to read it, but I remember sending in the draft to the studio and them saying they wanted to do it, and then on Friday they sent it to Stephen King, and then they heard back on Sunday that he liked it — which is really weird and unheard of. You could work all your life to get all this money, and on one level, the Scrooge story comes to mind when I think of the themes in “The Long Walk,” because if you get to the end and you win and you get the prize and you get all the money, it’s getting to the end of life and focusing only on that and not having any relationships.
Author: Alison Foreman
Published at: 2025-09-17 22:00:00
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