MOVIE NEWS – Fresh news about the cast of the latest Stephen King adaptation has arrived, while the writer revealed how much he likes a certain western-horror movie…
The film adaptation of Stephen King’s novel The Long Walk has confirmed its main characters. Mark Hamill, aka Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars universe, and Judy Greer, who was seen in movies like 2018’s Halloween, Alien: Romulus, and 2025’s The Karate Kid, have joined the cast.
According to Deadline, Hamill and Greer will be joined by David Jonsson, Cooper Hoffman, Charlie Plummer, Roman Griffin Davis, Ben Wang, Garrett Wareing and Tut Nyuot in the latest adaptation of the King story.
The Long Walk is a 1979 novel by Stephen King, published by the author under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.
The feature film adaptation of the novel went through several hands before being swallowed up in the pits of development hell. Filmmakers such as George A. Romero, Frank Darabont and André Øvredal once joined the project. But all their attempts to bring the story to the screen failed. Then, in November 2023, it was confirmed that Francis Lawrence would direct the film from a screenplay by JT Mollner. Lawrence also writes several movies in the Hunger Games franchise, I Am Legend and Constantine, among others.
The story occurs in a dystopian future where a totalitarian government rules the United States. Each year, 100 teenage boys are selected to participate in the annual “Long Walk”. This is the biggest party in the country, during which the boys walk across the country, and everyone along the road cheers them on. The problem is that they must walk four miles per hour or faster. If they go below that speed for 30 seconds, they get a warning. However, after three warnings, the army publicly executes them in a bloody spectacle.
Does Stephen King love this Kurt Russell western movie?!
In his latest testimonial, Stephen King praised the western-horror film Bone Tomahawk, directed by S. Craig Zahler, as “worth seeing.” Through his usual communication channel, his X-account, King wrote some words of appreciation about the film, shocking all viewers who saw it in 2015. Those? King reveals it in his post.
It took almost eight years for King to declare his love for the film. But it’s never too late for cult horror films that feel as original as Bone Tomahawk. He also spoke quite clearly about the remarkable bloody scene in the movie. The horror author writes in his post:
“BONE TOMAHAWK: I was expecting nothing but a time-passer on a rainy Wednesday morning, and got a low-budget Western epic. The dialogue alone makes it well worth watching. Beware the last act, when a man is literally torn apart.”
He responded a few tweets later, further detailing the horrific moment in which one of the victims is torn apart. A writer like King, whose works are full of violence, can be hard to impress with a gory scene (since he writes gory scenes with explicit details for a living). Zahler’s film seems to have finally broken it: “What a nice surprise (except for the guy split open, of course, and even that was sickly watchable)”.
BONE TOMAHAWK: I was expecting nothing but a time-passer on a rainy Wednesday morning, and got a low-budget Western epic. The dialogue alone makes it well worth watching. Beware the last act, when a man is literally torn apart.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) July 24, 2024
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