The Long Walk ReviewIn a totalitarian future, Garraty (Cooper Hoffman) is one of 50 teenagers taking part in a marathon trek. Based on a novel that Stephen King wrote in his freshman year at college before publishing it 12 years later, in 1979, under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman, The Long Walk has endured an aptly arduous journey to cinemas. And so our young men, selected by ballot, walk for 350 miles along a rigid line of asphalt through endless fields under a huge sky. Makes bold changes to the source material, but neither sanitises or dilutes. Screenwriter JT Mollner (responsible for ace serial-killer flick Strange Darling) has made some bold changes to the source material, but neither sanitises or dilutes.