The Long Walk vs. The Running Man: Which Stephen King Adaptation About a Dystopian Future Death Game Involving Moving Your Legs Is Right for You?

The Best Quotes From 'The Long Walk,' Ranked By Fans

Director Francis Lawrence, known for his work on the "Hunger Games" series, takes the helm for "The Long Walk," a film that delves into a dystopian nightmare where survival is tested at every step. The cast includes Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Garrett Wareing, and the legendary Mark Hamill. Hoffman plays Raymond Garraty, one of the young men chosen to compete in a deadly walking contest—a brutal event where slowing down could mean death. Hami…

‘The Long Walk’ Review: They Shoot Slowpokes, Don’t They, in Your Basic Totalitarian Nightmare

Who said all you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun? Evidently, all you may actually need is a roughly 400-mile road, a game cast of youngsters, and Mark Hamill, as director Francis Lawrence’s latest hunger games, “The Long Walk,” is a grim and gripping late-summer treat coated in poison. It also helps that screenwriter JT Mollner (writer/director of last year’s addictively twisted cast-and-mouse “Strange Darling“) has downed the material …

The Long Walk vs. The Running Man: Which Stephen King Adaptation About a Dystopian Future Death Game Involving Moving Your Legs Is Right for You?

Spoilers follow for the Stephen King novels The Long Walk and The Running Man, as well as for The Long Walk movie and the original The Running Man movie. The Long Walk is out on Friday, September 12, and The Running Man hits on November 14.It’s not odd to have an adaptation of a Stephen King book hit theaters. The prolific horror author has had numerous movies and TV shows made out of his work for decades now. What is weird is that within two mo…

Review: The Long Walk doesn’t quite keep the pace of Stephen King’s original novel

When King’s 1979 book about a deadly endurance tournament came out, it was a unique new postapocalyptic conceit. Today, it’s harder to make the idea feel novel again

Why adapting Stephen King’s bleak novel The Long Walk was so hard

For decades, Stephen King fans have been clamouring for a movie adaptation of his dystopian horror novel “The Long Walk.” Now, 46 years after it was first published, the iconic story will finally hit the big screen. Director Francis Lawrence (The Hunger Games, I Am Legend) joins guest host Talia Schlanger to discuss the film, the surprising difficulty of making a movie where all the characters will walk and die, and how his old career as an accl…