US EditionIn Stephen King’s The Long Walk, contestants must choose to walk or die
- The Long Walk, a dystopian survival thriller directed by Francis Lawrence, is scheduled for a theatrical release on September 12, 2025.
- The film adapts Stephen King's 1979 novel about a totalitarian regime forcing 100 boys to maintain a walking pace of three miles per hour or face death.
- Contestants receive two warnings for falling below the speed limit and are shot after a third, with soldiers escorting the walk until one survivor remains.
- The cast includes Cooper Hoffman as Raymond Garraty, David Jonsson as Peter McVries, and Mark Hamill as the sinister Major, who leads the military escort.
- The film explores human endurance and camaraderie, with the director noting the actors walked about 336 miles and emphasizing the story’s intense, immersive nature.
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New Stephen King Trailer Takes a Sudden Oh @#$ Turn
I've never read Stephen King's The Long Walk, so I didn't know what to expect from the trailer for the film, which comes from Francis Lawrence (The Hunger Games). The logline doesn't say much, either: "An intense, chilling, and emotional... Read more...
Holy crap, Stephen King’s Long Walk movie is finally real, and the footage looks terrific
For longtime Stephen King fans, “The movie version of The Long Walk is on its way” may sound like a cruel tease — and a familiar one, at that. King’s 1979 novel (written under his Richard Bachman pseudonym) has been heading toward theoretical film production since at least 1988, when Night of the Living Dead director George A. Romero was reportedly attached to direct. King fan and filmmaker Frank Darabont (director of The Shawshank Redemption, T…
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