Mark Hamill and Judy Greer have joined the cast of Lionsgate’s film adaptation of The Long Walk. Francis Lawrence (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes) is directing the film from a script written by JT Mollner.
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 four 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.”
There are no details on who Hamill and Greer will play, but the previously announced cast includes Garrett Wareing, Tut Nyuot, Charlie Plummer, Ben Wang, Jordan Gonzalez, Joshua Odjick and Roman Griffin Davis.
Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, and The Mist) was also attached to the project at one point, but after he lost the rights, James Vanderbilt (Zodiac) wrote a script, and New Line Cinema ended up picking it up. I believe this film is still working off of that script.
Source: Deadline
