#Peter McVries

[mysticdevils]

stephen king writing the long walk:

[perikiro]

I feel like saying this meme is them is an understatement jsdhdgs

[bluedoor7dawn]

Hello fandom………….

P6 Charlie and Ted from the Rage

[littleststarfighter]

“Just go on dancing with me like this forever and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoes on the stars and hang upside down from the moon.” -The Long Walk, Peter McVries

Had to draw my favourite characters from one of my favourite books, The Long Walk by Stephen King. A really heartbreaking story.

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[47-61]

what the hell is in that pack

[the-lean-buddha]

My thoughts on the news about The Long Walk's film adaption

I have very little faith that The Long Walk will be a good adaption but maybe I'll be wrong! I can dream, and I've been wrong before. Here are my thoughts on the casting announcements and set pictures.

Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson are the leads, according to Deadline, which means they're presumably Garraty and McVries. Jonsson seems like a good actor but an awful fit for either character, and with Hoffman (presumably Garraty) it comes down to how good an actor he is, I guess, because I can see it working if I squint but I haven't seen anything from Hoffman to suggest he can do Garraty. And I reaaaaally doubt he could do McVries. McVries has a bite to him.

Joshua Odjick is Native American so he's presumably Joe or Mike (not to say that a different character couldn't theoretically be Native American in the adaption, but it's key to Joe and Mike that none of the other Walkers understand their culture at all, and only Baker defends their parents). It's odd that either of those two would have a prominent enough role to be cast already, so I wonder if either one of their roles is beefed up, or if Mike and Scramm will be a composite character and Joe won't feature at all. Alternatively, Odjick isn't playing a Native American character (or he is but Mike and Joe are adapted out), in which case I'd guess Parker.

Roman Griffin Davis is someone I've only ever seen in Jojo Rabbit so I don't know how much range he has. I think he'd fit best as Barkovitch but I wouldn't be surprised if he's been cast as Baker or Olson.

Charlie Plummer is Stebbins. I say this almost entirely because he's a long-haired blonde. If McVries is black then book descriptions (and characterizations, let's be honest, you can't make McVries a black kid in the 70s and keep his character the same) are thrown out the door already, but google Charlie Plummer and tell me he's not been cast as Stebbins. Also, take a look at this.

Ben Wang is Asian American and there are no explicitly Asian American characters, so we've gotta guess this one purely on Vibes (Olson and Barkovitch could both be canonically Asian American, but Barkovitch is openly racist, so). From Wang's YouTube channel and some clips of Chinese Born American I found, he's a nice and playful guy (hmu Ben let's get a lemonade, also tell me who you're playing), so I'd assume Baker or Olson or Abraham because they fit that the closest, I guess? But this is unfortunately a flawed way of guessing because actors playing lunatics are sometimes normal people in real life, walking among us, going almost undetected.

Tut Nyuot's a young, sweet-looking kid. I'd assume Percy? Again, weird to cast Percy already because he doesn't even have any lines in the book, but I can't imagine Nyuout playing a character who's supposed to be the same age as Charlie Plummer's character. Maybe he's unexpectedly good at playing deranged assholes like Barkovitch? We'll see.

For Garrett Wareing I'd say Olson, looking through clips and interviews.

Jordan Gonzalez gives me no strong impression. Sorry, Jordan. Feel free to give me a stronger one over lemonade (and tell me who you're playing). If I'm held at gunpoint then I'll say Abraham.

Mark Hamill is presumably playing the Major. He's absolutely not who I would have picked because he overflows with character and I always pictured the Major as a stoic, empty Big Brother type figure, whose moments of charisma and friendliness were obviously just an act. And I guess Hamill could play that, but I think the Major will more likely have a lot more personality and vim and vigor in the movie, if Hamill was cast - he's easily the biggest draw in the cast. Not necessarily a bad way to portray the Major, but easier to mess up. We'll wait and see.

Judy Greer as presumably Mrs. Garraty will presumably be fine.

Set photos look promising, aesthetically. No half-track, though. And there's a tank. Why is there a tank?

There's a Deadline article suggesting that there are only 50 kids and the pace limit is 3mph. But there's also an article suggesting it's still 100 kids so it might be a mistake? If it's 50 kids then that's presumably done for practicality but it's a bad change, the number will either get too low too fast or it'll drop too slowly (and also no 47 and 61 which would be weird but that's not significant). 3mph isn't necessarily bad, it's more feasible, but it does mean the "first into Massachusetts in seventeen years" can't happen. Maybe they'll make New Hampshire the record instead.

i want lemonade

Reblog with your thoughts! We've got news, people, and I'm sure someone somewhere is more excited about that than I am. Let's get some discussion going on in here.

[j-em-g]

yeah...yeah

[i-am-al-capone]

hello to all 3 people in the long walk fandom. I’m starved for content after reading this book 3 times in the last 2 weeks so I’m making my own. If anyone’s out there go ahead and read my College AU fix it fic because I love these boys I’m gonna make them happy and alive myself

[thebratlestat]

I live here btw

[perelonso]

The Long Walk (1979) by Stephen King

[toxbeth]

[sailorbarkovitch]

"are you gay?"

garraty: what the fuck? no, i like girls!!! i have a girlfriend who i'm going to marr- when i was a child my friend asked me to take off my clothes and we touched each other and my mom said she was gonna make me walk naked and *has a mental breakdown*

mcvries: lol maybe i am maybe i'm not. btw do you like jerking off?

pre-walk olson: hell no! i like hot chicks. do you really think a guy like me would be gay?

post-walk olson: god's gonna send you to hell just for that. i hope ray garraty dies

baker: hahaha do you think that because i'm of the sensitive type? nothing wrong with being a little soft

abraham: i'm straight but 50 bucks are 50 bucks

parker: i would fck a dude if he was hot enough. got any problems with that bro?

stebbins: *gaslights you into questioning your own sexuality*

barkovitch: WHATTHEFUCK? DO YOU THINK I'M A FUCKING [F-SLUR]? YOU'RE GONNA SEE WHO'S GAY WHEN I'M DANCING ON YOUR GRAVE. also please don't leave i'm so lonely right now

scramm: *dying from sickness* you're right man, my wife sure is great! ahahaha

pearson: no, this is patrick! :o)

harkness: i enjoy writing yaoi fanfiction of my fellow walkers

davidson: did i tell you about the time i met a clown apprentice at the local circus and convinced him we were lovers in our past lives? we kissed for a bit and then he got a gay clown tattoo because of me

percy: *too homeschooled to know*

[perikiro]

final 3 🚶

[go-go-garraty]

McVries so crazy you never know when he's just broeing around or when he's about to ask Garraty if they could explore each other's bodies

If they all survived McVries would be asking him to marry him just like he did with Priscilla

You say that as if broing around and exploring each other's bodies wasn't synonymous

Dude he fucking would and the worst part is that garraty wouldn't say yes but he also wouldn't say no so they would just end up moving out together in a weird homoerotic situation

[d4ll4s]

McVries doodle

[47-61]

word for word what happened when he pulled out the pack