{"id":49056,"date":"2025-08-06T23:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T23:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/49056\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T23:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T23:42:08","slug":"the-long-walk-rated-r-for-strong-bloody-violence-and-grisly-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/49056\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Long Walk&#8217; Rated &#8220;R&#8221; for Strong Bloody Violence and Grisly Images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Long Walk is one of Stephen King\u2018s most harrowing books, and the upcoming film adaptation doesn\u2019t seem to be shying away from the intensity with its \u201cR\u201d rating from the MPA.<\/p>\n<p>The Long Walk is rated \u201cR\u201d for \u201cstrong bloody violence, grisly images, suicide, pervasive language, and sexual references.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Based on King\u2019s 1979 dystopian novel of the same name, the film arrives in theaters on September 12 from Lionsgate.<\/p>\n<p>The story follows Raymond Garraty, a 16-year old who takes part in an annual contest in which 100 teens must journey, nonstop and under strict rules, until only one is left alive.<\/p>\n<p>Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend, Constantine) directs from a script by\u00a0JT Mollner (Strange Darling).<\/p>\n<p>Cooper Hoffman (Licorice Pizza) and David Jonsson (Alien: Romulus), Garrett Wareing\u00a0(\u201cManifest\u201d),\u00a0Tut Nyout (\u201cThe Witcher: Blood Origin\u201d), Charlie Plummer\u00a0(The Clovehitch Killer), Ben Wang\u00a0(Karate Kid: Legends), Roman Griffin Davis\u00a0(Jojo Rabbit), Jordan Gonzalez (\u201cPretty Little Liars: Origin Sin\u201d), Joshua Odjick\u00a0(Welcome to Derry), Josh Hamilton (\u201cThe Walking Dead\u201d), Judy Greer\u00a0(Halloween), and Mark Hamill\u00a0(The Life of Chuck) star.<\/p>\n<p>Francis Lawrence produces with Roy Lee (IT, Doctor Sleep), Steven Schneider (Insidious, Paranormal Activity), and Cameron MacConomy (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds &amp; Snakes).<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Long Walk is one of Stephen King\u2018s most harrowing books, and the upcoming film adaptation doesn\u2019t seem&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,27302,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-49056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-the-long-walk","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}