“There’s one winner… and no end line.”
Lionsgate has launched the primary trailer and poster for The Lengthy Stroll, a brand new Stephen King adaptation which is about to hit theaters this September.
This tackle King’s (penned below the pseudonym Richard Bachman) 1979 dystopian horror story is helmed by The Starvation Video games director Francis Lawrence, and focuses on a gaggle of younger males who join a gruelling annual strolling contest – with some deadly guidelines.
Every contestant should hold his tempo above 4 miles per hour (6.4 km/h). If a participant drops under this velocity for 30 seconds for any cause, he will get a warning. In the event that they get three warnings and fails to renew tempo after 30 seconds, they’re “eradicated.”
Star Wars legend Mark Hamill performs the sadistic Main who supervises the competition, and the film additionally stars Alien: Romulus’ David Jonsson and Licorice Pizza’s Cooper Hoffman, with Garrett Wareing (Fairly Little Liars: The Perfectionists), Charlie Plummer (All of the Cash within the World), Ben Wang (American Born Chinese language), Roman Griffin Davis (Jojo Rabbit), Joshua Odjick (Wildhood), and Judy Greer (Arrested Growth).
A lot of different filmmakers have been connected to earlier variations of The Lengthy Stroll through the years, together with George A. Romero and Frank Darabont. Lawrence – who counts the guide as one in every of his favourite King tales – tells Collider that his resolution to signal on to the undertaking was all about timing.
“It was one thing that really crossed my desk years in the past, not lengthy after I completed Constantine. It was after I was doing I Am Legend, and I wished to do it, however Frank Darabont truly scooped up the rights. Folks have tried to make it through the years, and by no means might. We simply sort of cracked it; I labored with JT Mollner, who did Unusual Darling. He wrote an awesome draft, and it got here collectively actually shortly. I had this window, and we hit the precise season to shoot it, and we put collectively an incredible forged. The forged is so good and the performances are nice. I am tremendous pleased with it.”
Take a look at the trailer and poster under, and tell us what you suppose within the feedback part.
“From the extremely anticipated adaptation of grasp storyteller Stephen King’s first-written novel, and Francis Lawrence, the visionary director of The Starvation Video games franchise movies (Catching Hearth, Mockingjay – Pts. 1 & 2 , and The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes), comes THE LONG WALK, an intense, chilling, and emotional thriller that challenges audiences to confront a haunting query: how far might you go?”