As one of author Stephen King’s very first novels (written in 1967, published in 1979 under his pseudonym Richard Bachman), it’s hard to believe that The Long Walk hasn’t been brought to the big screen until 2025. In an era where a show like Squid Game , similarly about proletariat financial desperation, can achieve such massive success that Netflix would create a (non-lethal) real-life version, the timing of Francis Lawrence’s film, about a national walking competition whose prize is unimaginable wealth for its winner, feels almost too perfect.

Adapted for Lawrence by Strange Darling writer-director JT Mollner, The Long Walk vividly spotlights the lives of a diverse group of young men who are trudging across the American heartland for enormous financial reward, at the risk of n

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