Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson also star in director Francis Lawrence's dystopian feature that hits theaters later this year from Lionsgate.

Francis Lawrence directed "The Long Walk" from a script by JT Mollner. Lawrence is no stranger to dystopian thrillers. Along with helming almost all of "The Hunger Games" films (save for the first one, which was directed by Gary Ross), he was also the filmmaker behind "I Am Legend" as well as three episodes of the early Apple TV+ original "See".

Cooper Hoffman is getting his thriller film debut thanks to two Hollywood staples, Stephen King and Francis Lawrence. “Licorice Pizza” breakout star Hoffman leads the long-awaited film adaptation of King’s first-written novel “ The Long Walk ,