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Adaptation Of Stephen King’s The Long Walk To Release In September
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Stephen King’s The Long Walk is finally hitting the big screen, with a release date set for September. THR reports that Lionsgate announced a September 12th release date for the thriller at CinemaCon on Tuesday.
The film adapts King’s novella written under his Richard Bachman pseudonym, which was his first story he ever wrote (though not his first published). Francis Lawrence directs the film from a script by Strange Darling’s JT Mollner. It stars Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Garrett Wareing, Tut Nyuot, Charlie Plummer, Ben Wang, Roman Griffin Davis, Jordan Gonzalez and Josh Hamilton with Judy Greer and Mark Hamill.
The Long Walk is set in a dystopian future where an annual walking contest put on by the government forces 100 boys to keep pace on a walk. Those who miss pace are first given a warning and then killed, with the winner earning a prize at the end. Lionsgate describes the film adaptation obliquely as follows:
An intense, chilling, and emotional thriller that challenges audiences to confront a haunting question: how far could you go?
