Francis Lawrence strips Stephen King’s The Long Walk down to a road and a countdown

Francis Lawrence strips Stephen King’s The Long Walk down to a road and a countdown

Fifty boys start walking at first light, and they are not allowed to stop. Drop below three miles an hour and a soldier reads out a warning. Collect three warnings and the road takes you. There is no finish line anyone can see, only the arrangement that one of them will still be moving when the others are gone. Francis Lawrence builds his Stephen King adaptation around that single unbroken action, a march down an empty American highway that doub…