Stephen King Had One Condition For The Long Walk Movie

Stephen King has become such a prolific author over the past five decades that just about any one of his projects is considered ripe for adaptation. In this year alone, Osgood Perkins' "The Monkey" and Mike Flanagan's "The Life of Chuck" explored two very different sides of King's sensibilities, with Edgar Wright's "The Running Man" and the HBO series "It: Welcome to Derry" coming up over the next few months. In the middle of all these projects, however, is the long-awaited film adaptation of one of the horror maestro's earliest works with "The Long Walk," which couldn't come at a more fitting time.

Initially published under King's pseudonym Richard Bachman, the 1979 horror-thriller envisions a dystopian future where the only path to prosperity is paved by communal bloodshed. A large gr