The story
The Long Walk is a 2025 American dystopian survival thriller film directed by Francis Lawrence and written by JT Mollner. It is based on the 1979 novel by Stephen King. The film stars Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Garrett Wareing, Tut Nyuot, Joshua Odjick, Charlie Plummer, Ben Wang, Roman Griffin Davis, Josh Hamilton, Judy Greer, and Mark Hamill.
Setting & tone
The Long Walk is set in United States of America and works primarily in English. Tonally it sits in Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror, drawing on the conventions of each while filtering them through Francis Lawrence's direction.
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