A portion of the graphic execution can be seen in the just-released trailer.

The Long Walk had to black out a shocking kill scene in San Diego Comic-Con panel

A portion of the graphic execution can be seen in the just-released trailer.

By Mike Miller

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Published on July 25, 2025 07:18PM EDT

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Mark Hamill as The Major in The Long Walk. Credit:

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*The Long Walk* had to skip a step at this year's San Diego Comic-Con.

A new clip from the upcoming Stephen King adaptation was shown at a panel on Friday, but ** has learned that a particularly shocking kill scene had to be blacked out for audiences at the convention.

For the morbidly curious, the moment in question can be seen, in part, in a just-released trailer (below) around the 36-second mark, when a soldier points a gun at the head of a young competitor in the dystopian walk-or-die competition who seems to be having a seizure. The scene then cuts just before the gun is fired** **in what appears to be a graphic execution.

Based on King's 1979 novel, written under his pseudonym Richard Bachman, *The Long Walk *follows a group of 50 teenage boys who volunteer to participate in an annual competition, in which they must maintain a walking pace of 3 miles per hour until contestants are eliminated — literally — one by one, leaving only one winner left standing.

In the new trailer, Mark Hamill's grizzled Major explains these rules to the beleaguered teens, proclaiming, "Who's ready to f---in' win?"

'The Long Walk' cast reveals how much walking the Long Walk really entailed: 'We just kept walking'

Stars strike a pose in EW's Comic-Con photo studio

Most of the footage consists of competitors steadily trekking along a sprawling rural road with intimidating military escorts on their tail. At one point, we hear Cooper Hoffman's Raymond ponder his mortality in a conversation with David Jonsson's Peter.

"The only guarantee you have as a human being is that you are going to die," he says. "And if you're lucky, you get to choose how you spend those last moments."

Joshua Odjick as Parker, Jordan Gonzalez as Harkness, David Jonsson as McVries, Cooper Hoffman as Garraty, and Charlie Plummer as Barkovitch in 'The Long Walk'.

Murray Close/Lionsgate

Earlier in the day, the cast of the horror-thriller stopped by EW's San Diego Comic-Con studio to discuss the adaptation — and revealed how much walking the production actually entailed.

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Garrett Wareing, who plays Stebbins, one of the competitors, said that he secretly tracked his step count while filming. "I had my phone in my backpack the whole time, so I had to hide it, but I had my counter, right?" he says. "We were all walking — in addition to our crew members as well, who I want to shout out here — we were all walking eight to 15 miles a day. So what is it? 25,000 to 30,000 steps?"

*The Long Walk* hits theaters Sept. 12.**

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