{"id":323640,"date":"2025-08-06T22:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T22:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/323640\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T22:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T22:34:10","slug":"the-long-walk-rated-r-for-strong-bloody-violence-and-grisly-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/323640\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Long Walk&#8217; Rated &#8220;R&#8221; for Strong Bloody Violence and Grisly Images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Long Walk<\/strong> is one of <strong>Stephen King<\/strong>\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 \u201c<strong>strong bloody violence, grisly images, suicide, pervasive language, and sexual references<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Based on King\u2019s 1979 dystopian novel of the same name, the film arrives in theaters on <strong>September 12<\/strong> 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><strong>Francis Lawrence<\/strong> (I Am Legend, Constantine) directs from a script by\u00a0<strong>JT Mollner<\/strong> (Strange Darling).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cooper Hoffman<\/strong> (Licorice Pizza) and <strong>David Jonsson<\/strong> (Alien: Romulus), <strong>Garrett Wareing<\/strong>\u00a0(\u201cManifest\u201d),\u00a0<strong>Tut Nyout<\/strong> (\u201cThe Witcher: Blood Origin\u201d), <strong>Charlie Plummer\u00a0<\/strong>(The Clovehitch Killer), <strong>Ben Wang\u00a0<\/strong>(Karate Kid: Legends), <strong>Roman Griffin Davis\u00a0<\/strong>(Jojo Rabbit), <strong>Jordan Gonzalez<\/strong> (\u201cPretty Little Liars: Origin Sin\u201d), <strong>Joshua Odjick<\/strong>\u00a0(Welcome to Derry), <strong>Josh Hamilton<\/strong> (\u201cThe Walking Dead\u201d), <strong>Judy Greer<\/strong>\u00a0(Halloween), and <strong>Mark Hamill\u00a0<\/strong>(The Life of Chuck) star.<\/p>\n<p>Francis Lawrence produces with <strong>Roy Lee<\/strong> (IT, Doctor Sleep), <strong>Steven Schneider<\/strong> (Insidious, Paranormal Activity), and <strong>Cameron MacConomy<\/strong> (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":323641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,3943,116943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-323640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-the-long-walk","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114984207906700116","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}