Stephen King called out the lack of blood in violent, destruction-heavy superhero movies as \u201cwrong\u201d and nearly \u201cpornographic.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you look at these superhero movies, you\u2019ll see \u2026 some supervillain who\u2019s destroying whole city blocks but you never see any blood,\u201d King told The Times U.K. in an interview published last week, at the time discussing the gore he wants audiences to see in his upcoming film \u201cThe Long Walk,\u201d which was adapted from his novel of the same name. \u201cAnd man, that\u2019s wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
More from TheWrap<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s almost, like, pornographic,\u201d King went on.<\/p>\n The one thing King said he wanted to ensure was included in the film was teenagers seen being shot. As he likens the characters in the film to the types of boys \u201cwho wore the same neck dirt for months\u201d that he grew up around.<\/p>\n \u201cThe same sort of kids that are pulled into the war machine,\u201d King explained. \u201cI said [to the film executives], \u2018If you\u2019re not going to show it, don\u2019t bother.\u2019 And so, they made a pretty brutal movie.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe Long Walk,\u201d which follows 50 teen boys as they take part in a deadly, televised walking challenge,\u201d his theaters on Sept. 12.<\/p>\n The post Stephen King Says Lack of Blood in Action-Packed Superhero Movies Is \u2018Wrong\u2019<\/a> appeared first on TheWrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ca.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Stephen King called out the lack of blood in violent, destruction-heavy superhero movies as \u201cwrong\u201d and nearly \u201cpornographic.\u201d \u201cIf you look at these superhero movies, you\u2019ll see \u2026 some supervillain who\u2019s destroying whole city blocks but you never see any blood,\u201d King told The Times U.K. in an interview published last week, at the time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1956684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[52282,346350],"class_list":["post-2000285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-stephen-king","tag-superhero-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ryan-Reynolds-Dwayne-Johnson-Tessa-Thompson-and-More-Set-Panels.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1956684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/div>\n