Final 12 months, an adaptation of the Stephen King novel The Lengthy Stroll (which was, like The Working Man and Thinner, revealed underneath the pen title Richard Bachman) went into manufacturing, with director Francis Lawrence, whose earlier credit embody Constantine, I Am Legend, Water for Elephants, The Starvation Video games: Catching Hearth, The Starvation Video games: Mockingjay – Components 1 and a couple of, Crimson Sparrow, Slumberland, and The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, on the helm. Lionsgate can be releasing the movie on September 12th – and at the moment, the primary trailer for The Lengthy Stroll has dropped on-line! You may test it out within the embed above.
An adaptation of The Lengthy Stroll has been trudging via improvement hell for many years. At one level, the rights have been within the fingers of Frank Darabont, who made the King diversifications The Shawshank Redemption, The Inexperienced Mile, and The Mist. Then the rights handed over to New Line Cinema, the place Scary Tales to Inform within the Darkish director André Øvredal was employed to direct the movie from a screenplay by James Vanderbilt, whose credit embody the 2 most up-to-date Scream motion pictures. Whereas doing the press rounds for his movie The Final Voyage of the Demeter final 12 months, Øvredal revealed that he was not concerned with The Lengthy Stroll, and stated not making that film is among the massive regrets of his life.
Unusual Darling author JT Mollner has written the screenplay for the model of The Lengthy Stroll that has been made. The novel is ready in a future dystopian America dominated over by a militaristic dictator, and the titular occasion is an annual contest during which 100 youngsters should preserve a gentle tempo of a minimum of 4 miles an hour underneath strict guidelines till solely one in every of them is left alive. The winner receives “The Prize”: something they need for the remainder of their life. The story follows Raymond Garraty, a 16-year-old from Pownal, Maine, in addition to a gaggle of different youngsters with good, unhealthy, and mysterious intentions.
Cooper Hoffman (Licorice Pizza), David Jonsson (Alien: Romulus), Garrett Wareing (Ransom Canyon), Tut Nyuot (The Witcher: Blood Origin), Charlie Plummer (Nationwide Anthem), Ben Wang (American Born Chinese language), Jordan Gonzalez (Fairly Little Liars: Summer season Faculty), Joshua Odjick (Welcome to Derry), and Roman Griffin Davis (Jojo Rabbit) star within the movie alongside Judy Greer (the Halloween and Ant-Man franchises) and Star Wars legend Mark Hamill, who just lately labored on one other King adaptation referred to as The Lifetime of Chuck.
Lawrence is producing The Lengthy Stroll via his firm about:clean, alongside Roy Lee, Cameron MacConomy, and Steven Schneider. Meredith Wieck and Erin Jones-Wesley are overseeing for Lionsgate. Filming happened in rural areas all through the province of Manitoba.
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