Frank Darabont is obsessed with
Stephen King and is once again planning to adapt one of his novels to the big screen. He has already directed King's stories
The Shawshank Redemption and
The Green Mile and later this year his first venture into 'true King horror' with
The Mist will be released. His fourth adapted King novel is set to be
The Long Walk which was written in 1979 under King's pseudonym Richard Bachman. The book is about a walk where the winner gets anything they want for life but the loser is punished by death. If you walk too slow on the walk you get a warning... four warnings and you are shot. Of course there are several characters on this walk and they all walk the line of being friends and enemies because of course, only one can survive. It sounds a lot like
Battle Royale and
The Condemned, but under the writings of Stephen King... these characters will be fleshed out to the full and actually may end up being more like the paranoid characters of
Lost than anything else. I'm really interested in this one but it's not expected to be Darabont's next film after he has completed The Mist. That honor goes to
Fahrenheit 451, an adaptation of
Ray Bradbury's classic book. At the Con, a poster for The Mist was also released which you can see below. The Mist is the most conventional King that Darabont is yet to handle, so it will be interesting to see what he does with it...
