The first trailer for the long-awaited adaptation of Stephen King's dystopian horror novel The Long Walk is here – and it's everything I hoped it would be.
In the brief clip, which can be viewed below, a group of young men embark on a walking contest with a grand prize at the end. Everyone is smiling, laughing, and strolling along until one of the men stops walking – and is shot dead on the spot.
If a contestant gets three warnings and fails to keep walking, he is eliminated –AKA shot by the U.S. Army and left on the road to die.
The cast includes Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Mark Hamill, Garrett Wareing, Charlie Plummer, Ben Wang, Roman Griffin Davis, and Judy Greer. Hunger Games franchise director Frank Lawrence directs from an adapted screenplay by JT Mollner (Strange Darling).
A Long Walk movie has been in the works since 1988, with George Romero initially attached to direct. Since then the film has cycled through directors, with Frank Darabont (director of Academy Award-winning King adaptations The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile) acquiring and eventually losing the rights to the novel.
In 2018, Lionsgate announced that the adaptation would move forward with James Vanderbilt (The Amazing Spider-Man 2) directing, before André Øvredal (Last Voyage of the Demeter) was set to take over in 2019. Sheesh.
The Long Walk is set to hit theaters on September 12, 2025. For more, check out our list of the most exciting upcoming movies in 2025 and beyond.
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