The Long Walk @IMDb
This is a movie adaptation of a Stephen King novel written under his pseudonym, Richard Bachman. Considering they talked Mark Hamill into playing the Major I will likely go see it in the theater even though I do not believe it will live up to the book itself.
The Long Walk (novel)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Walk_(novel)
wikipedia wrote:
Set in an alternative, dystopian version of the United States, the plot revolves around the Long Walk, an annual contest in which 100 young men walk continuously along a pre-arranged route. Walkers must keep a minimum pace of 4 miles per hour (6.4 km/h), and are issued verbal warnings by soldiers monitoring their progress if they fall below this speed for 30 seconds. A walker can lose one warning if he walks for an hour without earning another. If a walker takes three warnings and falls below the minimum speed for 30 seconds, he is shot and killed by the soldiers. The Walk continues until there is only one survivor, who can have whatever he wants for the rest of his life as his prize.
I literally read the book decades ago but the instant I saw the premise of the movie it all came rushing back to me.
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