The Long Walk is scheduled to be released in the United States by Lionsgate on September 12, 2025.
Premise
In a dystopian United States ruled by a totalitarian regime, a group of young men enter an annual walking contest in which they must maintain a speed of at least three miles per hour or risk execution. The contest ends when only one walker remains alive.
In 1988, George A. Romero was considered to direct the film adaptation, but it never came to fruition.[4] By 2007, Frank Darabont had secured the rights to the film adaptation of the novel.[5] He said that he would "get to it one day". He planned to make it low-budget and stated, "It'll be weird, existential and very contained".[6] In April 2018, New Line Cinema was set to adapt a film based on the novel, with James Vanderbilt attached to write and produce the film along with Bradley Fischer and William Sherak through their Mythology Entertainment banner.[7] In May 2019, it was announced that André Øvredal would direct the adaptation.[8]
By November 2023, the film was to be produced by Lionsgate Films with Francis Lawrence directing from a screenplay by JT Mollner.[9] On June 10, 2024, Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson joined the cast.[10] On taking the part of a young character who lost a father like Hoffman had himself, Hoffman said: "When your trauma is on display for the world, there's no actually hiding it. I'm like, I might as well talk about it, or, I might as well put it into something. Because if I keep hiding it and running from it, that's not fair to anyone else who has gone through that. I'm here to display this person and this experience as honestly as I can, and hopefully someone else watches it and goes, he sees me, he understands me. And that's, in my opinion, the only reason to do any sort of art."[11] The next month, Garrett Wareing, Tut Nyuot, Charlie Plummer, Ben Wang, Izabella Raven, Jordan Gonzalez, Joshua Odjick, Roman Griffin Davis, Mark Hamill, and Judy Greer joined the cast.[12][13]
↑ "Interview: Frank Darabont". Lilja's Library – The World of Stephen King. February 6, 2007. Archived from the original on November 15, 2019. Retrieved June 11, 2024.
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