Stephen King started writing The Long Walk when he was in high school—and the body count of young American men killed in the Vietnam War was rapidly rising. Almost 60 years later, the story is finally making its way to theaters on September 12—directed by Francis Lawrence, who has helmed all of the Hunger Games sequels and prequels. There are obvious similarities between The Long Walk and those films, based on Suzanne Collins’s YA kill-or-be-killed series. But Lawrence was drawn in by the prospect of telling an even more intense and harrowing story. “Anything that has a contest with death as the stakes and some sort of big prize if you win can be connected in some way,” the director tells Anthony Breznican for this exclusive first look. “But in The Hunger Games, everybody’s competing in a very different kind of way. There are alliances and you are trying to kill one another. Here, you’re not actually trying to kill one another. It’s a very different dynamic, in terms of relationships.”
Elsewhere in HWD, Rebecca Ford chats with Ike Barinholtz about his busy year so far; Jessica Shaw goes deep with Alan Alda; and yes, we’re still recovering from Monday’s Met Gala: Check out our full coverage of the starry event here, and see who had some of our favorite looks. |
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