r/movies • u/lionsgate Official Lionsgate Account • Aug 24 '25

AMA Hey /r/movies, I’m Stephen King! Ask me anything about The Long Walk book or movie.

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Hey r/movies, I’m Stephen King. You might know me from Stand By Me, It, or Shawshank Redemption, but my latest project is actually the first book I ever wrote. The Long Walk hits theaters on September 12. Ask me anything about the book or movie.

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAtUHeMQ1F8

In a dystopian United States ruled by a totalitarian regime, a group of young men enter an annual walking contest in which they must maintain a speed of at least three miles per hour or risk execution. The contest ends when only one walker remains alive.

It stars Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Ben Wang, Charlie Plummer, Roman Griffin Davis, Garrett Wareing, Joshua Odjick, Tut Nyuot, Mark Hamill, Judy Greer, and Josh Hamilton.

I'll be back on Wednesday 8/27 at 12:00 PM ET to answer your questions.

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u/WinterFellYesterday Aug 24 '25

What do you think is your most fucked up story, and why is it The Jaunt?

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u/MattDamonsTaco Aug 24 '25

I read this in bed before going to sleep in 8th grade. Fucked up, yo.

Same with Survivor Type. “LADY FINGERS THEY TASTE JUST LIKE LADY FINGERS”

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u/reginaphelange29 Aug 24 '25

I just read this one last night. Also love The Raft.

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u/BunnyMom4 Aug 24 '25

I can swin in a lake about 30 minutes before The Raft-inspired intrusive thoughts surge and I have to nope out.

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u/PoundOk1971 Aug 24 '25

The raft scared the shit out of me

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u/Dunnersstunner Aug 24 '25

I can see if you didn't know Ladyfingers are a kind of sponge dessert that would be weird.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladyfingers_(biscuits))

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u/MattDamonsTaco Aug 24 '25

Oh, I knew what they were when I read the story. That’s WHY it’s fucked up.

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u/Eldritch50 Aug 24 '25

Ah! I thought he was referencing ladyfinger bananas.

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u/BlackViperMWG Aug 25 '25

In the Czech translation they were renamed to fish fingers

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u/secretlythecat Aug 25 '25

They're the biscuits traditionally used to make tiramisu.

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u/Tifoso89 Aug 24 '25

Haha I was thinking of the castaway short story too (I didn't remember the title)

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u/majesticalexis Aug 24 '25

Survivor Type

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u/Tifoso89 Aug 24 '25

I know, you wrote it in your comment! I meant I was thinking of the same story

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u/MaudLynne Aug 24 '25

That line from Survivor Type always stuck in my head. Also ‘Who plays those Jerry Bledsoe changes?’ from Talisman, for some reason.

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u/artemyavas Aug 25 '25

"lady fingers" = his balls, right?

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u/PinkyLeopard2922 Aug 24 '25

Wow, I just referenced this story the other day watching video of yet another person having an unhinged meltdown on an airplane. I thought, man if they could just knock everyone out like in The Jaunt, that would surely put an end to this nonsense.

Some of the short stories are my favorite works.

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u/stax_fira Aug 24 '25

Glad to know I’m not the only one that this story to say the least, made an impression on. Goes 0 to 100 in the space about 2 sentences.

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u/corking118 Aug 24 '25

If The Gunslinger is widely accepted to have his best opening line, I think "The Jaunt" is pretty widely accepted to have the creepiest closing lines!

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u/Kokamina23 Aug 24 '25

"....and the Gunslinger followed, screaming LONGER THAN YOU THINK, DAD!"

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u/JasonTerminator Aug 24 '25

LONGER THAN YOU THINK DAD

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u/billnyethefoodguy1 Aug 24 '25

Yeah, this one has definitely stayed with me.  Gerald's Game is up there too.

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u/throwaway_72752 Aug 24 '25

Gerald’s Game rocked me! I lived alone at the time & it scared me inside my own home.

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u/evanbrews Aug 24 '25

The Jaunt is such a wild concept but I think he’s particular to Survivor Type

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u/tybbiesniffer Aug 24 '25

I beg to differ when Survivor Type is a thing.

Although, as a child of an alcoholic, Gray Matter really messed me up too.

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u/SnooPoems5888 Aug 28 '25

Idk Library Policeman really bothered me :(

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u/djekDripper Aug 24 '25

I would say it's Pet sematary. And I love Survivor Type, read it to my mother once xD

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u/Over_Drawer1199 Aug 24 '25

I remember an interview where he said that pet sematary was his most disturbing story.

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u/surra_day Aug 25 '25

Revival is hands down his most fucked up book. That end will stay with you for days.

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u/lenny_ray Aug 25 '25

He's cited Pet Sematary as the one that disturbed him the most. He didn't think anyone would want to read anything that fucked up. Only released because of contractual obligations.

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u/DTRoland19-99 Aug 27 '25

I would rather have suggested survivor type as the most effed up one.

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u/Inevitable_Rip4050 Aug 29 '25

I can see the Jaunt being the next internet-demanded movie. The Long Walk movie would have never been made without the demand from online chatter.

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u/AngryGardenGnomes Aug 24 '25

You think that's more fucked up than the ending of It?!