Posted on 09/03/2025 6:47:37 PM PDT by nickcarraway
That's why the prolific author wanted the film adaptation of 'The Long Walk' to be "pretty brutal."
Stephen King had one condition for the film adaptation of his book, The Long Walk: he wanted a lot of brutal violence.
During a recent interview with The Times U.K., the prolific author criticized the way violence is depicted in superhero movies, such as some in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and DC Studios. Oftentimes, those films don’t show the realistic, gory consequences of violence, despite there being a lot of destruction.
“If you look at these superhero movies, you’ll see … some supervillain who’s destroying whole city blocks but you never see any blood,” King said. “And man, that’s wrong. It’s almost, like, pornographic.”
'The Long Walk' First Reactions: "Harrowing, Traumatizing" Film Ranks With Stephen King's Best He added of the way violence is presented in The Long Walk, “I said, if you’re not going to show it, don’t bother. And so they made a pretty brutal movie.”
The Long Walk, based on King’s 1979 dystopian horror novel, follows a group of teenage boys who compete in an annual contest known as “The Long Walk,” where they must maintain a certain walking speed or get killed. The last remaining walker wins the contest. The movie was directed by Francis Lawrence, with a script penned by JT Mollner.
Superhero movies will typically avoid graphic violence to appeal to a broader audience, including families and younger viewers. However, there have also been plenty of R-rated superhero pics released that don’t hold back on bloody violence, such as 2024’s Kraven the Hunter, the Deadpool films, 1998’s Blade, 2021’s The Suicide Squad and 2019’s Hellboy, among others.
The Long Walk arrives in theaters on Sept. 12
Says the weirdo that writes books for teenaged girls.
What I - as a reader - consider his three main faults as a writer.
1. A lot of his stories have no end game. He gets to a point at the conclusion of his stories where he tends to wrap them up too quickly. Some sort of McGuffin he pulls out of his arse to wrap it up.
2. His characters all have the same voice. No matter where the story is located, they all sound the same. And no one in really talks the way his characters talk.
3. He pushes his liberal politics in his stories. Especially since 2015, the main 'good' characters in his stories all hate Trump, and the 'bad' or whacky characters all like Trump. As a side note, anyone he writes as a Christian is portrayed as whacko-cracko.
I think the days of the super hero craze is coming to an end.
It was interesting to see the comics brought to life with modern special effects initially but after 20 years the novelty is gone and the plot lines have diverged to to unwatchability.
Add in the inevitable politics and DEI and Hollywood virtue signaling and people are walking away
The same can be said for Star Wars and Jurassic Park as well as the rest of the motion picture franchise trend
I wonder if he’s for actual abortion pics being distributed....as far as porno-graphic goes - his stuff is more graphic than what he’s complaining about - gore may be his “alone time porn”...
When did Steven King become such a blathering idiot? On the subject of “almost pornographic,” Mr King, why did you insert that bizarre children’s orgy into It?
That wasn't gory. Just dusty.
I used to think so, too, but his rambling, looooong books bored me after a while.
Really? Really? I guess we shouldn’t talk about what happened to Beverly down in the sewers, eh Mr King? How about Todd and Athur, huh? Pretty bad what ol’ Todd wanted to do to the Jewish woman... and folks, we can never, ever forget what the Policeman did to Sam. That left a stain on my souls that will never go away, so don’t you get all high and mighty Stephen, you mentally defective POS!
I stopped reading King decades ago when it dawned on me that nearly every book had a subplot about some kind of chid abuse.
Out of th heart, the pen writes.
I tally LIKED “The Stand”, but I don’t think I would enjoy reading it now.
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