You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and these are Cody Derrick's interviews with the screenwriter for The Long Walk J.T. Molnar, and the film's casting director, Rich Delia.

They say you should have made friends on the Long Walk. I swear to lock you three.

Let's be musketeers. All for one.

One for all.

No, and again, I need to hear a louder. All for one. And One for all. No, and again, I need to hear it out of.

Off one!

And one for all!

The only guarantee you have is a human being.

You say you are going to die.

And if you're lucky, you get to choose how you spend those last moments.

I keep hoping that park gets easier.

That's when I'm afraid of.

I'm proud of you boys you got

sat maintain the speed of three miles per hour walk until there's only one of you left

who's ready to fucking win this is Cody Derrick's the next best picture and I'm speaking with the writer of the Long Walk, J.T. Molnar. How you doing today, J.T.? Great. How are you? Doing very well. Happy to be talking to you. Thanks for having me. Of course. So this film, based on the 1979 Stephen King novel, I'm going to jump right in with the origin of the film being made.

How did the original Stephen King novel speak to you?

I mean, the novel has so much impact, and it's very brutal.

To me, when I first read the novel, I was a young teenager.

When I reread it as an adult, it affected me very differently.

I wasn't just reading it as this surface-level story about 99 people getting killed.

I was seeing it and all its metaphors and all its observations about the world we live in and our social structures.

And I just, I was fascinated when I got back into it again about with how much this simple,

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