The Long Walk, based on the novel by Stephen King, premieres on the 2025 movie schedule today, which means fans are about to see a very different side of Mark Hamill. The man who will forever be known as Luke Skywalker plays the movie's villain, a role that Hamill says he planned to turn down, but had his mind ultimately changed by director Francis Lawrence.
Hamill tells EW, “I hate guns,” when explaining why he had initially planned to refuse the role of The Major in The Long Walk. The level of gun violence in the story, which sees boys compete in a contest to walk the furthest, facing execution at the hands of soldiers if they fail, was just too much for him. Hamill decided to call director Francis Lawrence himself to tell him he was turning down the project, but that conversation actually changed his mind. He said…
