FILM
THE LONG WALK
KING OF THE ROAD
Who wll be the Tarmac Daddy?
★★★★
OUT NOW / CERT 15 / 108 MINS
DIRECTOR Francis Lawrence
CAST Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Mark Hamill, Garrett Wareing, Charlie Plummer, Judy Greer, Ben Wang
PLOT In a totalitarian future, Garraty (Hoffman) is one of 50 teenagers taking part in a marathon trek. The winner will name his own prize; the other 49 will die.
BASED ON A NOVEL that Stephen King wrote in his freshman year at college before publishing it 12 years later, in 1979, under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman, The Long Walk has endured an aptly arduous journey to cinemas. George A. Romero and Frank Darabont are among the filmmakers who held the rights before dropping out of the race, and only now, as King turns 78, is the page-to-screen marathon complete. But boy, does Francis Lawrence prove a worthy winner.