Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. If you're a Stephen King freak like I am, you did a double take when you saw the title THE LONG RUN. It has nothing to do with the Bachman book THE LONG WALK, but it does sound pretty interesting.

It's all about a journalist who befriends a charismatic death row inmate and, convinced he was wrongly convicted, works to exonerate him for his crimes. After freed, the ex-inmate is recruited to run for elected office and the journalist leaves his job to help run the campaign... and then begins to doubt the innocence of the man he helped to free.

Playwrite Stephen Belber wrote the script that was quickly snapped up for a ton of money (seven figures) by Columbia and Will Smith's Overbrook came on to produce. No word on whether or not Smith is considering one of the lead roles. Sounds like a little twisted work. What do you folks think?