SPOILER WARNING: The following article contains major spoilers for The Long Walk. If you have not yet seen the film, proceed at your own risk!
It’s that time once again: for the fifth time in 2025, we have reached a release date for a new Stephen King project. They’ve been arriving all year, including two movies (Osgood Perkins’ The Monkey and Mike Flanagan’s The Life Of Chuck), a TV show (MGM+’s The Institute) and two books (King’s new novel Never Flinch, and his illustrated take on Hansel & Gretel). There are still two more titles ahead in the coming months (namely HBO Max’s IT: Welcome To Derry and Edgar Wright’s The Running Man), but this week is all about Francis Lawrence’s The Long Walk, and this special edition of The King Beat is taking a specific focus on the shocking ending of the adaptation.
