Stephen King recently spoke to Times UK and criticized Hollywood superhero films for often represented baseless violence. In various Marvel and DC films, entire cities are destroyed without the spectator being badly in human life. King, whose dystopian horror novel “The Long Walk” obtains the adaptation treatment of the film this month, does not agree with this approach to cinematographic violence.
“If you watch these superhero films, you will see a supervillain that destroys blocks from the whole city but you never see blood,” said King. “And guy is bad. It’s almost, like, pornographic … I said [for ‘The Long Walk’]If you don’t show it, don’t worry. And so they made a fairly brutal film. “”
Directed by the veteran of “The Hunger Games” Francis Lawrence and adapted by the filmmaker “Strange Darling” JT Mollner, the film “The Long Walk” follows the same configuration as King’s novel in 1979. Located in the dystopian United States, history is focused on a group of adolescents who participate in the eponymous competition that forces them to walk at a certain speed or to be killed. The film features Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Judy Greer, Mark Hamill and more.
In a recent interview with Variety, Hoffman said that the film script forced the actors to walk often “15 miles a day per day at 100 degrees” during the shooting.
“There are times when you are forced to be method actors,” said Hoffman. “Whatever” method “means for people. But we are walk. No one pretends. And it’s exhausting.
“The Long Walk” opens in the rooms on September 12 of Lionsgate.
