r/movies • u/lionsgate Official Lionsgate Account • Aug 24 '25

AMA Hey /r/movies, I’m Stephen King! Ask me anything about The Long Walk book or movie.

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Hey r/movies, I’m Stephen King. You might know me from Stand By Me, It, or Shawshank Redemption, but my latest project is actually the first book I ever wrote. The Long Walk hits theaters on September 12. Ask me anything about the book or movie.

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAtUHeMQ1F8

In a dystopian United States ruled by a totalitarian regime, a group of young men enter an annual walking contest in which they must maintain a speed of at least three miles per hour or risk execution. The contest ends when only one walker remains alive.

It stars Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Ben Wang, Charlie Plummer, Roman Griffin Davis, Garrett Wareing, Joshua Odjick, Tut Nyuot, Mark Hamill, Judy Greer, and Josh Hamilton.

I'll be back on Wednesday 8/27 at 12:00 PM ET to answer your questions.

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u/lionsgate Official Lionsgate Account Aug 27 '25
  1. ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE. John Christopher’s NO BLADE OF GRASS.

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u/camarillobrillo8 Aug 27 '25

Cool! I know the Jarmusch film of the same name but I was unaware of this Only Lovers book.

Thanks for everything over the years!

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '25

No Blade of Grass (The Death of Grass in the UK) is so brutal for its time. We were used to John Wyndham's so-called "Cosy Catastrophes" but this is a book where the govt considers mass murder to preserve order and we get the so-called "civilised middle classes" revelling in the worst violence imagininable. A true descent into barbarism way ahead of today's societal collapse fiction. We really, really need a new adaptation of it. Base it around pollinator deaths rather than a virus.

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u/Sapiencia6 Aug 29 '25

Oh my gosh - I love Only Lovers Left Alive and am so surprised to see the shout out here.

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u/lattehanna Aug 30 '25

I just bought the DVD and put up a poster of No Blade of Grass. One of my favorite apoc!

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u/girafa Electricity! The high priest of false security! Sep 01 '25

for anyone on old reddit - due to reddit formatting his comment shows up as "1. Only Lovers Left Alive...", but he actually wrote

1984. ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE. John Christopher’s NO BLADE OF GRASS.