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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Greg Evans

Stephen King made one ‘brutal’ demand for violent new film adaptation

Author Stephen King personally requested that the violence be upped in new dystopian film The Long Walk, an adaptation of his 1979 novel.

The 77-year-old’s only demand for director Francis Lawrence (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire) and screenwriter JT Mollner (Strange Darling) was that the film showed its teenage characters getting shot.

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