10 Stephen King Stories That Haven't Been Adapted Yet (But Should)
3. The Long Walk
The very best of King's Bachman books, The Long Walk boasts a simple premise brilliantly executed: In a dystopic future, 100 teenage boys are forced to participate in the Long Walk, an epic marathon that ends with only left walker left alive.
Viscerally gruelling and intense, The Long Walk is first and foremost a high concept thriller in which a group of boys - each with something to fight for, all with something to prove - befriend and betray each other for victory, but it's also a thematically rich exploration of class struggle, fascism, and the futility of the Vietnam War.
Unlike the rest of the stories on this list, there is reportedly a Long Walk movie in the works from Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence, the first positive update on its existence since George A. Romero worked on his own film back in 1988.
We'll wait to see if this one happens or fizzles out like Romero's, so as it stands The Long Walk is one of King's most timely, thrilling and breathtaking novels never given the big screen treatment. Madness.