‘The Long Walk’ Film Adaptation Gets Hall H Panel at Comic-Con

Stephen King’s ‘Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon’ Movie in the Works with JT Mollner, Lionsgate

JT Mollner is already in the Stehen King business, having written the studio's upcoming take on the author's 'The Long Walk.'

‘The Long Walk’ film adaptation gets Hall H panel at Comic-Con

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The upcoming film adaptation of Stephen King’s “The Long Walk” is scheduled for a Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con this Friday.  “The Long Walk” releases this September and is directed by Francis Lawrence, director of The Hunger Games franchise. The film is based on Stephen King’s first novel that he wrote under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.  The panel will be from 3-4 p.m. on Friday, June 25. Confirmed panelists inc…

Lionsgate Teams with ‘Strange Darling’ Director on Adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon’

Lionsgate is sticking with Stephen King. The Long Walk is set to release this fall, and they're just optioned rights to adapt King's 1999 novel The Girl

The Long Walk Director Reveals How to Adapt Stephen King’s Scariest Dystopia for Today

It was strange. It first crossed my desk in 2006. Akiva Goldsman, with whom I was doing I Am Legend, suggested it. I hadn’t heard of it, and he gave it to me and thought that I might like it and thought it would make a great movie. So I read it and I loved it. It became my favorite King book, but then when I said ‘yeah, let’s do it!,’ the rights had gotten nabbed up by Frank Darabont. Source