The first trailer for The Long Walk explains the rules of the deadly game created by Stephen King in one of his bleakest works.

The long journey to The Long Walk is endlessly surprising — on a surface level, it seems like one of Stephen King’s most eminently filmable horror stories. In a dystopic future America, a contest is ...

However, King also wrote much darker stories under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. Now, one of "Bachman's" books, The Long Walk, is heading to theaters, and it officially has a release date.