Seven new solid members have been named as filming begins on the film, which hails from Starvation Video games director Francis Lawrence
The Lengthy Stroll, an upcoming movie primarily based on the novel by Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman), has begun manufacturing. As cameras rolled on the film, Lionsgate introduced that quite a lot of actors have been tapped to star in it, together with American Born Chinese language‘s Ben Wang and Jojo Rabbit‘s Roman Griffin Davis. The film, which is ready to be directed by The Starvation Video games franchise veteran Francis Lawrence, facilities on a dystopian future the place American teenagers are pressured to undertake The Lengthy Stroll for the leisure of the lots.
“The Lengthy Stroll” is mainly precisely what it seems like — 50 teenage boys are pressured to stroll with out resting, and are eradicated after they collapse, or their pace drops beneath three miles per hour. Whereas the novel was printed in 1979, it isn’t tough to see connections to The Starvation Video games and the child-abuse-as-entertainment subgenre it is a part of.
Incoming solid members (first reported a Deadline) are 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 time Faculty), Joshua Odjick (Welcome to Derry), and Roman Griffin Davis (Jojo Rabbit). There aren’t any character names or particulars about their roles at this stage.
Lawrence will direct from a script by JT Mollner (Unusual Darling). Lawrence will produce the undertaking by means of his firm about:clean, alongside Roy Lee, Cameron MacConomy, and Steven Schneider. Meredith Wieck and Erin Jones-Wesley are overseeing the undertaking for studio Lionsgate, and the film is capturing in rural areas all through Manitoba.
The Lengthy Stroll was one in every of 4 books King wrote early in his profession below the Bachman pseudonym. Of the 4 — which embrace The Working Man, Rage, and Roadwork — solely The Working Man has made it to the display but. There’s additionally a reinvention of that film coming, from director Edgar Wright and star Glen Powell.
King took Rage, which facilities on a faculty capturing, out of print in 1997 after a mass capturing at Heath Excessive Faculty in West Paducah, Kentucky. For a couple of years, it remained in print as a part of an anthology of Richard Bachman books, however ultimately, it was faraway from that as effectively. Later in his profession, King wrote two extra Bachman books (1996’s The Regulators and 2007’s Blaze).
Stephen King’s web site provides the next synopsis of The Lengthy Stroll: “Within the close to future, the place America has develop into a police state, 100 boys are chosen to enter an annual contest the place the winner will probably be awarded no matter he desires for the remainder of his life. The sport is straightforward — keep a regular strolling tempo of 4 miles per hour with out stopping. Three warnings, and also you’re out — completely.”
