The Long Walk takes place in the future in which 100 teenage boys embark on an annual competition known as “The Long Walk.” The rules are simple: maintain a speed above 3 miles per hour. Receive three warnings in an hour and you’re shot dead. The last one walking gets whatever he wants for the rest of his life. Under these grim circumstances the boys develop deep friendships despite knowing that each of their friends’ survival is a threat to their own. The book has the spirit of other King coming-of-age stories, following boys who prevail amid hardship and despair a la the characters in Stand by Me and It. King wrote the novel in 1979 under his then pseudonym Richard Bachman.

Director: Francis Lawrence
Cast: Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Garrett Wareing