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Emily Garbutt

Stephen King isn't a fan of the "pornographic" violence in superhero movies: "Man, that's wrong"

Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Ben Wang and more in The Long Walk.

Stephen King's only condition for The Long Walk movie adaptation was that the audience had to watch teenagers getting shot, as he thinks it's "wrong" that so many films show violence without consequence.

"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 in a new interview with The Times. "And man, that’s wrong. It’s almost, like, pornographic.'

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