Stephen King’s ‘The Long Walk’ Adaptation Dated for September Release

An adaptation of Stephen King’s The Long Walk is on the way, and Lionsgate has revealed its release date during their CinemaCon presentation today, per Deadline.

Look for The Long Walk to arrive in theaters on September 12, 2025.

Francis Lawrence (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes) directs from a script by JT Mollner (Strange Darling).

In The Long Walk, “The country holds an annual walking contest in which 100 teens must journey, non-stop and under strict rules, until only one of them is still standing alive and receiving a prize. The story told of a 16-year old walker named Raymond Garraty and the teens, some good, some bad, some mysterious, in his orbit.”

The Long Walk will star Garrett Wareing (Ransom Canyon), Tut Nyout (The Witcher: Blood Origin), Charlie Plummer (Spontaneous), Ben Wang (American Born Chinese), Jordan Gonzalez (Pretty Little Liars: Summer School), Joshua Odjick (Welcome to Derry), Roman Griffin Davis (Jojo Rabbit), Judy Greer (Halloween 2018, Cursed), and Mark Hamill (The Life of Chuck, “The Fall of the House of Usher”). Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson will lead the ensemble.

Stephen King penned The Long Walk under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. First published in 1979, the novel is set in future dystopian America ruled by an authoritarian.

Lawrence said at the Lionsgate presentation, “This is my favorite Stephen King novel, I read it 27 years ago. The rights hot bought and then came back up. Roy Lee my producer brought it to me. For me, it was the conceit that was very interesting. You can imagine yourself in the shoes of these young men. World building –the heart of the movie for me is about these young men, their comraderies, the love that forms. This isn’t a try to knock each other out competition, but how we can hold each other up competition.”

The director is also producing the project through his company, alongside Roy Lee, Cameron MacConomy, and Steven Schneider. Meredith Wieck and Erin Jones-Wesley are overseeing for Lionsgate, with Phil Strina negotiating the deals on behalf of the studio. Production will continue in rural locations throughout the province of Manitoba through the summer.

The trailer was also shown at the presentation, so expect that to make its way online sometime in the near future.

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