The Long Walk‘s First Trailer Looks So Simple, It’s Scary

“Walk oregon die.” That’s the simple, striking tagline for the caller movie The Long Walk and it tells you astir everything you request to know. The movie is so astir a clump of young radical who are forced to support walking until they die. Or, much specifically, everyone else dies. Ideally, you’re the last survivor.

From the caput of Stephen King, based connected his 1979 novel, The Long Walk is coming to theaters September 12. Francis Lawrence, champion known for his enactment connected the Hunger Games movies, directs and he’s enactment unneurotic a precise awesome ensemble.

To sanction a few, there’s Cooper Hoffman (Saturday Night, Licorice Pizza), David Jonsson (Alien: Romulus), Ben Wang (Karate Kid: Legends), Judy Greer (Halloween), and, of course, Mark Hamill. Here’s the archetypal trailer.

“There’s 1 winner. And nary decorativeness line.” Damn, Mark. Really channeling your champion interior Darth Vader with that line. And really, the full dependable over, too. Again, it’s a elemental concept, but 1 that offers each mode of possibilities not conscionable for satellite and quality building, but hostility and action. All of which is heightened by the large editing and euphony successful that trailer.

It’s chaotic that specified an fantabulous thought from a maestro similar King has, until now, gone unadapted. But it’s not for deficiency of trying. Many, galore filmmakers person taken a ace implicit the years, with Shawshank Redemption and Green Mile manager Frank Darabont erstwhile owning the rights. Of course, that ne'er happened. At slightest present we get idiosyncratic who tin evidently grip character-driven, high-concept adaptations similar Lawrence and he’s enactment unneurotic immoderate of our champion young actors to bring it to life.

Between The Long Walk, The Life of Chuck, and The Running Man, it’s a bully clip to beryllium a King instrumentality astatine the movie theater. Are you going to cheque retired The Long Walk? Here’s the afloat poster.

The Long Walk – Lionsgate

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