Director Francis Lawrence brings his ‚Hunger Games‘ chops to the ensemble thriller opening in September.<\/b>
\nAuthor Stephen King and director Francis Lawrence are both known for deftly handling tales involving kids put through hell with no guarantee they\u2019ll survive. Think the Losers\u2019 Club in It for King and every young person to appear in a Hunger Games movie for Lawrence. So to combine their talents on The Long Walk, based on King\u2019s 1979 dystopian novel, feels rather ideal\u2014not to mention nightmarish, as the film\u2019s brutal first trailer suggested.
At San Diego Comic-Con, fans got a deeper look into the movie with stars David Jonsson, Tut Nyuot, Garrett Wareing, and Mark Hamill, as well as producer Roy Lee and screenwriter JT Mollner. That started off with a brand new trailer, which amps up the dread of the first, and gives us a bit more of Mark Hamill\u2019s chilling performance as the Major, the military leader who watches over the young men participating in the Long Walk\u2026 and acts as their angel of death as they\u2019re brutally picked off, one by one.
The rest of the cast includes Cooper Hoffman, Judy Greer, Ben Wang, and Charlie Plummer.
Here\u2019s the plot description, as chillingly simple as it gets: \u201cSet in a dystopian alternative version of the United States ruled by a totalitarian regime, the story follows 50 young men who sign up for the Long Walk, where they walk at a pace of three miles per hour until contestants are eliminated one by one and only one winner is left.\u201d It hits theaters September 12.<\/p>\n