Cooper Hoffman gets his thriller film debut thanks to two Hollywood booklets, Stephen King and Francis Lawrence. “Licorice pizza” breakout star Hoffman is leading the long-awaited film pass of King’s First-Written Roman ”The long walk“As he published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. Lawrence of” The Hunger Games “strange the function directs.
The film centers at a competition in a dystopian America where 100 young men must go without stopping; If they pause too long to rest, they are killed in place. David Jonsson, Garrett Wareing, Tut Nyuot, Charlie Plummer, Ben Wang, Roman Griffin Davis, Jordan Gonzalez, Joshua Odjick and Josh Hamilton play Hoffman’s colleagues. Judy Greer and Mark Hamill Medstar.
JT Mollner adapted King’s Book, which was originally written in 1979. “The Shawshank Redemption” director Frank Darabont later developed a version in the 2000s. André Øvredal (“Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark”) would direct this iteration of the 2019 project before Lawrence joined.
“Everything that has a competition with death as a bet and a kind of big prize if you win can be connected in any way,” Lawrence said Vanity To direct this film after helping the other literary franchise. “But in ‘The Hunger Games’, all of which compete in a completely different way. There are alliances and you try to kill each other. Here you are not trying to kill each other. It’s a very different dynamic when it comes to relationships.”
He added, “I thought the opposite. I am,” I don’t want this to feel “The Hunger Games.”
Lead Star Hoffman before told indifire That he is tied with his co -stars on set, even though he was “in competition” for the action. “David Jonsson, who just won at Baftas (for the Rising Star Award) is in it, and he is also the damn coolest. And that movie is fantastic,” said Hoffman. “I’ve made some really good friends on it. All these guys are super legitimate. Charlie Plummer is in it, which is the damn best and has become a very close friend.”
“The Long Walk” is produced by Lawrence, Roy Lee, Steven Schneider and Cameron Macconomy. The film is presented by Lionsgate in collaboration with Media Capital Technologies and is a fraudulent entertainment / about: Tom production.
Lionsgate releases “The Long Walk” in theaters on Friday 12 September. Check out the trailer below.
