I was reading an article about how The Long Walk would be a great and easy to make movie. It said that the other novels in Stephen King's "Bachman Books" series have already been made into movies, so it would make sense to also also make the Long Walk into a movie. It says that all you would really need is a road, some teenage actors and a half track.
Even though I think a Long Walk film would be really dramatic, I don't think the book should be made into a movie. I think the psychological aspect of the book is what makes it worth reading, and it would be hard to convey that in the movie. Its cool that you're able to get into the guys heads, especially Garraty's, and see what they're thinking while going through the walk. In a movie, which just has dialogue, you wouldn't be able to see this. When the boys are actually talking to each other they're usually fighting and calling each other names, so thats probably all you would see in a movie.
Here's the link to the article I was reading:
https://thedissolve.com/features/movie-this-book/49-why-stephen-kings-the-long-walk-is-ripe-for-adapta/
I disagree with you. I think this story line a has a lot of potential to be a successful movie, especially since dystopian movies are very popular at the moment. Books like Divergent and The Hunger Games have a plenty of "physchological aspects" (as you called it) but the movies are still engaging and popular. The audience could still have a way of knowing what's going on in a character's mind.
ReplyDeleteI don't know anything about Divergent, but in the Hunger Games I think Katniss was pretty open about everything she felt, and she could tell everything she was thinking to Peeta, which is easy to show in a movie. In the Long Walk, Garraty keeps most of his thoughts to himself, and you can't really show that in a movie. Also, the Long Walk wouldn't make a great movie because the entire thing would have to be filmed on the road and there would be no scene changes, which people wouldn't like.
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