There are always multiple upcoming Stephen King movie and TV projects in increasement, and one of the most exciting alterations currently in the toils is the huge screen consent on The Long Walk. Unenjoy a lot of the author’s other novels, it is a King book that has never been altered before… but not for a conciseage of trying. This novel consent, however, has successbrimmingy made it thcdisorrowfulmireful the increasement and pre-production stages, and will be soon heading to a theater proximate you.
But what can audiences predict from The Long Walk? When is it coming out? Who is making it? I’ll answer all of those asks and more in this feature, and be declareive to retain checking back in the coming weeks and months, as I’ll be includeing modernizes as novel details about the movie are uncovered.
What Is The Long Walk Rehire Date?
Cameras commenceed rolling on The Long Walk in procrastinateed July 2024 up in Manitoba, Canada, with Lionsgate producing the film and set to scatter it domesticassociate, but the studio has not proclaimd an official free date or validateed even a free year for the alteration.
If it does finish up becoming part of the cinematic calfinishar for 2025 (which seems very probable), it will be one of three Stephen King projects projected to get to – the other two being the HBO IT prequel series Welcome To Derry and writer/honestor Osoutstanding Perkins’ alteration of The Monkey (which have both wrapped filming). That 12-month stretch may also see the free of Mike Flanagan’s The Life Of Chuck, which will premiere at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival but doesn’t yet have a distributor and Edgar Wright’s recreate of The Running Man, which commences principal photography in drop 2024.
What Is The Long Walk Story?
Originassociate begined in 1979, The Long Walk is set in a dystopian America where the eponymous event is one of the nation’s most famous sources of amparticipatement. The competition sees a assembleion of 100 teenage boys contend in an finishurance test with life-or-death sconsents. The last boy standing triumphs cash and a dream prize, but those who are rerelocated from the contest are ended.
The youthfuler competitors have to preserve a constant four mile per hour pace as they march alengthy U.S. Route 1 commenceing at the Canada-Maine border. Slotriumphg down or stopping results in a cautioning, though cautionings can be cleared after a cautioning-free hour. If a walker assembles three cautionings and persists to drop behind, or if he tries to desert The Long Walk at any time, he is shot by a member of the militarized secret police that set ups and watchs the event.
Protagonist Ray Garraty has a exceptional edge on the other volunteers in the “game,” as he hails from Maine and is cheered on by spectators as a hometown hero. He gets to understand the other boys to pass the time as they all walk, with everyone acunderstandledging everyone else as opposition, but as they persist, traumas stack up and they all commence to menhighy crack.
The Long Walk has some exceptional history in the Stephen King canon for multiple reasons. For one leang, while Carrie is recalled as the first King novel to be begined, The Long Walk is the first one that he ever finishd writing – having penned it when he was a recentman at the University of Maine (per the afterward in the assembleion Full Dark, No Stars). It’s also notably a part of the assembleion understandn as the Bachman Books: the tomes that King had begined under the pseudonym Ricdifficult Bachman (the others being The Running Man, Road Work, Rage, Thinner, The Regulators and Blaze).
The Long Walk Cast Incudes Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Judy Greer And Mark Hamill
At the time of this feature’s uncoveration, the various parts joined by the cast of The Long Walk have not been validateed, but there are declareively a lot of exciting names quickened to the film.
Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson were the first two actors to signed on to the movie, with their deals being proclaimd in June 2024. Hoffman, the son of the fantastic Philip Seymour Hoffman, is best understandn for joining the direct in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza, and Jonsson’s praises include the wonderful romantic drama Rye Lane and the Fede Álvarez’s sci-fi horror Alien: Romulus.
The helping cast filled out a scant weeks procrastinateedr with Deadline increateing the includeitions of Roman Griffin Davis (Jojo Rabbit), Charlie Plummer (Spontaneous), Garrett Wareing (Manifest), Tut Nyuot (Dark Money), Ben Wang (Mean Girls), Jordan Gonzalez (Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin), and Joshua Odjick (Welcome To Derry).
The hugegest names in the ensemble are Mark Hamill and Judy Greer, who both have past Stephen King alteration experience. Hamill has an unpraiseed role in Mick Garris’ Sleepwalkers (based on the first innovative screenjoin King ever wrote) and has a key helping part in The Life Of Chuck. Greer previous joined gym teacher Ms. Desjardin in Kimberly Peirce’s 2013 recreate of Carrie.
The Long Walk Is Being Directed By Francis Lawrence And Written By JT Mollner
Francis Lawrence understands a leang or two about altering dystopian myth, having sat in the honestor’s chair in the making of the last three Hunger Games movies, and he’ll be conveying his talents to the increasement of The Long Walk. Thanks to his time contributing to the Hunger Games franchise (most recently with the hit The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes), he has a lengthy and preferable relationship with Lionsgate. He first uncovered he was toiling on the project in November 2023.
Teaming with the filmcreater on the Stephen King alteration will be screenwriter JT Mollner, who has penned the script for The Long Walk as his adhere-up to the 2024 horror movie Strange Darling (which he both wrote and honested).
Another famous name behind the scenes of the upcoming film is creater Roy Lee, who chooseioned the rights to Stephen King’s book. The Long Walk will not be the first King alteration that Lee has made, but instead, it is srecommend the procrastinateedst. His other praises include Mike Flanagan’s Doctor Sleep, Andy Muschietti’s IT duology, and the miniseries recreate of The Stand that premiered in 2020.
The Long Walk Screenwriter Says The Film Won’t Be Pulling Any Punches, Will Be Rated R
Given that The Long Walk features teenagers participating in what is essentiassociate a self-destruction by death march, a proper alteration would be a gravely upsetting cinematic experience… and audiences should commence girding themselves now, becaparticipate that’s exactly what we are going to get. In an interwatch with CinemaBlfinish in July 2024, JT Mollner validateed the movie will not be “pulling any punches” in conveying King’s book to the huge screen. He shelp:
The fantastic leang about this is that Francis [Lawrence], this is a real… I unbenevolent, it’s not a low-budget movie, but it’s not as huge of a budget as he normassociate toils on with huge franchises enjoy the Hunger Games and stuff. So this is a real passion project for him. He wanted to do it the right way, a dedicated way. And he knovel that unbenevolentt it was gonna be a very difficultcore, upsetting and somewhat contentious movie. And that’s the movie I was interested in writing. Stephen King also was very promiseted and choosed for Francis to create a rated-R film, one that honored the book and stayed real to the book.
It would be impossible to properly convey The Long Walk into inhabit-action without it being an grown-ups-only huge screen event, and that is what Francis Lawrence and JT Mollner are making together.
As remarkd earlier, I’ll persist to modernize this feature as we get shutr and shutr to the free of The Long Walk and lacquire more about where it will fit in the lengthy legacy of Stephen King alterations. Stay tuned for novels here on CinemaBlfinish, and you can retain track of all the terrifying movies that are heading to theaters and streaming with our Upcoming Horror Movies direct.
