‘The Long Walk’ Made Me Feel More Hopeful Than ‘Superman’ Did

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Spoilers for The Long Walk and Superman lie ahead.

I rushed from the movie theater on Friday at 11:55 PM, asking as politely as possible for people not to block the escalator so I could get by and make it from 34th Street to 40th so I could make a 12:10 bus and not have to wait for the one at 1 AM. My feet moved as quickly as they could, and I got on that bus at 12:04 and was shocked to see it leave at 12:06. Four whole minutes early! If I hadn’t busted my ass, I wouldn’t have made it.

That’s not as daring a walk as we see happen in The Long Walk , the new Stephen King adaptation directed by Francis Lawrence and written by JT Mollner. In the film, 50 male volunteers must walk at a pace

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