Walking the Mile

There are two types of these behind-the-scenes bonus features that get added onto videotapes & DVDs. There are ones where the director really puts out an effort to explain a bit about the movie-making process, what they were trying to accomplish with the feature film's project, and showing you a bit of what you didn't absorb from simply watching that feature film itself. And then there are those where they simply splice together a few minutes of footage showing the crew actually shooting that feature film, just created to give them something to taut as a bonus feature. This "Walking the Mile" is one of that second kind. And that's why I'm afraid this "review" of it is so "blah". What is there to say about such an unimaginative, unoriginal short? 'How ironic that the feature film that this was behind the scenes of was such a creative science fiction assault on religion.

The Walking in the Mile is too short around 25 minutes running, where Frank Darabont explains how this new project was offered to him through a phone call from Stephen King suggesting to him another "Prison Tale" if he maybe was interested to make something as "the Shawshank Redemption" the answer was a "big no" the wise King exposes in few words that it will have another concept, quite opposite on previous one, Darabont stayed interested at time, but imposes a condition, he will be the very first one to receive the first tale, he did and stayed thrilled and asking more, now Stephen King replied "you has to wait as anybody else", after receiving from Darabont the green light that he will make the picture, he adapted the five tales on screenplay in exactly eight weeks, they got Tom Hanks and start to find out a perfect John Coffey, which was told in another short documentary available on bonus DVD-Bluray.

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First watch: 2019 / How many: 1 / Source: Blu-Ray / Rating: 7.5