No one chooses ”The long walk. “Not really. It is the key to surviving Stephen King’s Cult-Hit Horror Roman From 1979 – about a fascist American government and a group of teenage boys who probably “volunteer” for their deadly endurance test.
Published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, more than a decade after King broke the concept, “The Long Walk” is technically the first book from the legendary author. King wrote it when he was only 19 years old and still a student at the University of Maine. But the wisdom he gave his characters can then explain some of the success he has now.
“None of us really have anything to lose. It makes it easier to give away.”
“If people took it one day at a time, they would be much happier.”
“Pick them up. Put them down. Just keep going down the road.”
I have quoted advice from “The Long Walk” since I was younger than Bachman, but Kärneniet from King’s first novel didn’t completely sank for me until I saw Lionsgate’s frightening new film passing in theaters. Marching more than five miles … with over a dozen strangers … in dark(!!), I couldn’t see if the engrossing workout chose me – or if I chose the.
Yeah, I was one of the lucky few who got to see “The Long Walk” early, on a Treadmill.
“The feeling is the difficult part,” said Brianna Mcelroy, LionsgateThe head for worldwide digital marketing, to IndieWire. “We wanted the audience to sit in the shoes of these characters, and to see people join that idea has been so, so exciting.”
Inside the historic Culver Theater in Los Angeles during the Labor Day weekend, seats for orange training equipment and actors were changed as drill sergeants. Not unlike the rules in the death game we simulated, the directive’s directive was fraudulently simple. Keep a speed of three miles per hour and you can finish the movie. But falls below that threshold for a second? It’s games over and you will get kicked.
“This movie is such a physical and emotionally convincing suggestion,” Melroy said. “This is really where the heart of this idea came from, and seeing the incredible reaction that people have had it online makes us even more excited about the publication.”
Directed by Francis Lawrence (“The Hunger Games”) and written by JT Mollner (“Strange Darling”), Lionsgate’s shocking new horror film opens in theaters across the country on September 12, but the training gimmen will not expand with it. If you are still trying to see “The Long Walk” early – and you’re in the Los Angeles area tonight – Then you will go with me and the actress Judy Greer For IndieWire’s special advanced screening and questions and answers.
We are at AMC Century City on Thursday, September 4 at. 19.00 Request an invitation to IndieWire’s special early screening of “The Long Walk” here.
Unfortunately, Midnight Movie Magic is infected with me and my long treadmills. It turns out that you can rent light treadmills that are remarkably easy to move, and They can be set at a fixed speed. Strategist before the event, I knew we would cover about five miles if we didn’t go faster than we had to. But in the end we were forced to end the hour and 48 minutes at a rate that technically kept us “together” the whole walk.
When I saw the boys’ distance climbing on the screen, I almost forgot our race completely.
“I looked from the wings and felt the feeling too,” Melroy said. “I was very impressed with everyone and their endurance. As if I was crying, my eyes are blurred, and I just can’t imagine going through it. The idea of what these boys went through in the book, the relationships they formed and tested by trying to win and then join them in it by treating the efforts as 100 percent real in a theater.”
Since Smartphones Dawn, Cinephiles have complained to other screens that may not seem to sit through a film – But chasing for one that it is the only carrot in a rider panelproce can be a solution that actually works. I am notoriously weak myself, and when I do not take notes for an article or a review, I like to stick in theaters so I have something to do with my hands that are quiet. Gym can be high and on the way into what was actually my second show of “The Long Walk” (more about that later) I was worried “”whirr-whirr-whirr ” Of the treadmill can drown out fear and misery on the screen.
In reality, the advancing noise snapped us to attention and it seemed to subtly drive the film forward. This was an influencer -event, so yes, the participants used their phones. But even capturing content for social media, “The Long Walk” kept everyone’s attention. Our bores sergeants struggled to keep on their aviations in the dark theater, and even if they were very Alert to give us water, the living artists seemed as imprisoned by the film as they were dealing with the game and its participants.
“The first reaction that people have is to wonder if they can handle it physically,” Melroy said. “But technology control was the second most upsetting experience I’ve had today.”
Just before the show (mine was one of three that took place in Auditorium 11, Culver Theater’s most flexible event space), I introduced myself to some other people standing around. Our Tespian catchers mugs me mostly, but I had an “Allie” on the left and a “Christine” on the right that was warm, friendly and willing to chat.
When to Allie stumbled and fell almost during the first 20 minutes of the film, this Ali panicked and thought that her new friend could be kicked out. Instead, the instructors showed the other Allie Mercy (maybe because they didn’t see the event until it was too late to fix?), And she got today’s and got today’s only warning.
Everyone reached the end, and that is proof of the format. But even without any hassle from Lionsgate that founded a national gym/theater chain (a hybrid film palace called something that but not exactly … Cinematic Soul Cycle?), The individual experience studio gave us so -called “volunteer” why “the long walk” feels like compulsory display for so many serious series Stephen King Fans 2025.
In the movie No. 47 Raymond Garraty (Cooper Hoffman) struggle with the consequences of putting his name in a lottery required by a government that only claims to give him a choice. He is flanked by friends as well as enemies – No. 23 Peter McVries (David Jonsson), No. 38 known only as “Stebbins” (Garret Wareing), No. 46 Hank Olson (Ben Wang), no. 48 Collie Parker (Joshua Odjick), no. 6 Arthur Baker (Tut Nyuot) and more. We meet Ray in a sea of hopeless competitors who give in to a capitalist race that has no real winners. In an attempt to hang on to my own identity, I wore Doc Martens instead of sneakers.
Lionsgate could have a complete fascist field day explaining why Mark Hamill was the right choice to play the General for “The Long Walk.” Star Wars-Protected, who have more thoughts on the 73-year-old actor than I can even fake, know too well that epic adventures can make powerful metaphore metorism. But Death Games tells how they end with design, and the last man in the film is far from Luke Skywalker.
Disturbing and graphic moments pepper “The long walk” as buckshot, and when it became tougher for Ray and his comrades, I had a harder and harder time to handle my own balance. The treadmill was narrow. My shoes had made me cocky. And yet the torture pressed. I almost paid the price during what I consider to be the most emotional scene in the movie, when my glasses flew off but I continued to go and cry in place. The friendliest prison in the gang grabbed them from the floor for me, and the other Allie gently leaned in from the treadmill to ask if I was ok.
Afterwards I told some people that I was embarrassed to have woken up because I had seen the movie before. There are many reasons that I could not review “The Long Walk” for IndieWire. For starters, I have loved this book since I was a teenager – and when it comes to screenwriters, I am convinced that JT Mollner can do nothing wrong. I also come from a family of batshit crazy long distance runners, and today, if you talk to me in a bar at any time over 21.00, I have more to say about politics than you want to hear.
But what is the main reason why someone else on IndieWire will criticize “The Long Walk”? Since I participated in a test show of the film this spring, and in my written feedback, I suggested the treadmill that the studio later brought life for Zany King fans like me.
“Dream Factory sometimes makes dreams,” said Tiff Midnight programmer Peter Kuplowsky, when I dm’d about the unforgettable event in an overjoyed frenzy.
Early buzz for adaptation is strong, and the online reaction to the treadmill activation has been quiet extra to look at. To stand or sit, this is my favorite This year’s horror film (So far!) And I’m happy to get back on the track with a third screening soon. Exciting auditorium, seriously Questions the Docs decision, another “long walk” line came to mind.
“”Fuck the long walk‘”I joked to one of my favorite audience, no. 1 Alfonso Ardon.
With a small rebellion in the middle of a struggle for their lives, the boys use it as a rally call to get through the middle downturn of their cruel journey. It is one of my favorite scenes in the movie, and while I am very pleased with the free swag I got on the treadmill, I mentioned to Alfonso how good I thought it would be on a t-shirt. The only race to be solved now? About me choose To make a … or Lionsgate strikes me to it.
“The Long Walk” is in theaters September 12. See it early with IndieWire on September 4th.
