Mark Hamill, best known for playing Star Wars’ Luke Skywalker, stars as the brutal overseer of 100 boys who have embarked on The Long Walk, an annual journey that only one of them will survive.
“There’s one winner and no finish line,” Hamill’s character tells the group of boys, 99 of whom won’t make it until the end. The prize is simply known as “the prize” – anything the winner wants for the rest of his life. But the trailer poses the question: Is the prize worth it?
The trailer, which is set to Shaboozey’s “Last of My Kind,” first premiered at Lionsgate’s CinemaCon presentation in Las Vegas last month.
The story is based on Stephen King’s novel of the same title, which he began writing while he was a freshman at the University of Maine in 1966. The book was originally published in 1979 under King’s pseudonym, Richard Bachman.
Directed by The Hunger Games’ Francis Lawrence, the movie stars Hamill, Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Charlie Plummer, Ben Wang, Roman Griffin Davis and Judy Greer. Lawrence, Roy Lee, Steven Schneider and Cameron MacConomy produce.
Lionsgate’s The Long Walk premieres in theaters September 12.
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