The Long Walk's Amazon-Exclusive 4K Steelbook Edition Releases Next Month
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Steven Petite
2025-10-22
The Long Walk, one of the best-reviewed Stephen King movies of all time, releases on 4K Blu-ray, Blu-ray, and DVD on November 25.
The Long Walk Limited Edition Steelbook (4K Blu-ray)
$35 | Amazon Exclusive | Releases November 25
Stephen King - The Long Walk - First Hardcover Edition
The Long Walk is now available to rent or buy on Prime Video and other streamers, but if you prefer physical media, you don't have to wait too long to add the new Stephen King adaptation to your collection. The dystopian thriller releases on 4K Blu-ray, Blu-ray, and DVD on November 25. The 4K Blu-ray is only available as a Limited Edition Steelbook and is exclusive to Amazon. You can preorder the Steelbook Edition for $35. The standard Blu-ray edition is discounted to $28.37, and the DVD is $23.
The Long Walk is the second Stephen King adaptation to get an Amazon-exclusive Steelbook Edition in 2025. The first was David Cronenberg's 1983 supernatural horror movie The Dead Zone; Amazon is offering a discount on The Dead Zone Limited Edition Steelbook for the first time.
If Amazon drops the price before The Long Walk ships, the discount will automatically be applied to your order. Even though $35 is pretty cheap for a new Steelbook Edition, it's certainly possible the price will go lower because it already did. The price fell to around $26 shortly after preorders opened before rebounding to the original $35 price earlier this month.
The Long Walk's Steelbook Edition comes with 4K Blu-ray, 1080p Blu-ray, and digital versions of the movie. The steelbook cases features Mark Hamill's villainous character, the Major, on the front and dog tags of contestants on the back. A transparent sleeve alters the Major's sunglasses. With the sleeve on, you can see the young men walking in the reflection. When the sleeve is removed, the reflection disappears. The interior artwork shows the contestants walking with a tank following behind them.
The 4K Blu-ray disc supports Dolby Vision and HDR10 and two surround sound tracks: Dolby Atmos and Dolby TrueHD 7.1.
The dystopian thriller is one of the highest-rated Stephen King movie adaptations of all time from a critical perspective. At the time of writing, The Long Walk holds a 88% on Rotten Tomatoes. Directed by Francis Lawrence and written by JT Mollner, The Long Walk's ensemble cast includes Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Judy Greer, and Mark Hamill, among others.
The Long Walk Editions:
If you want to read Stephen King's original novel before or after watching the film adaptation, Scribner published a hardcover edition of The Long Walk on October 7. New editions of King's books are often printed when an adaptation is made, but most of the time these are paperbacks. For King collectors. The Long Walk's hardcover edition is more notable than most reissues.
This is the first standalone hardcover edition of The Long Walk sold at bookstores and major retailers. The reason for this is because The Long Walk is one of a handful of novels King wrote under the pen name Richard Bachman. Novels published under the Bachman name were only available as paperbacks. The Long Walk hit stores in 1979, but it's actually the first novel King wrote.
When the author revealed the true identity of Bachman in 1985, The Long Walk and three other books initially published under the pseudonym were collected in hardcover as The Bachman Books. The Long Walk also received a pricey Limited Edition from Centipede Press in 2023.
In September, Scribner published a paperback tie-in edition with The Long Walk movie poster as the cover art. Amazon has a limited-time deal that drops the price of this edition to $14.24.
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If you're interested in the hardcover edition of The Long Walk, chances are you'll also want the new hardcover edition of The Running Man. King wrote The Running Man under the Bachman pseudonym, so it had never received a standalone hardcover edition until earlier this month (October 14). The Running Man's new film adaptation starring Glen Powell and directed by Edgar Wright premieres November 7. The movie is expected to be more faithful to the source material than the original 1987 adaptation starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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As mentioned, The Long Walk is the first 2025 King adaptation with a Steelbook Edition, but we'd be surprised if The Running Man doesn't get one. The two 2025 adaptations without Steelbook Editions are The Life of Chuck and The Monkey. Directed by Osgood Perkins, The Monkey is a horror-comedy about a cursed toy monkey. It received a standard 4K Blu-ray release in June, and Amazon has it for only $19.67 (was $43) right now. The Life of Chuck, meanwhile, is a fantasy drama directed by Mike Flanagan. The 4K Blu-ray edition released September 30 and is available for $24 (was $40) at Amazon.
Several older film adaptations of King's work have received new 4K Blu-ray editions this year. The Dead Zone Limited Edition Steelbook released in June as an Amazon exclusive; The Dark Half was finally restored in 4K in July; and Creepshow 2 arrived on 4K Blu-ray at the end of September as a Limited Edition from Arrow Video. The 1990 film Graveyard Shift also released on 4K Blu-ray this year, but unlike the other movies we mentioned, Graveyard Shift is pretty bad.
The Shining: Steelbook Edition (4K Blu-ray)
$51.58 | Limited Edition
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$84 | Limited to 6,000
We put together a list of Stephen King movies on 4K Blu-ray. There aren't very many 4K Steelbook Editions that remain in print, but you can get Stand By Me, Carrie (1976), and Creepshow Steelbook Editions for nice discounts. Fans of Kubrick's adaptation of The Shining should check out The Film Vault's new Steelbook Special Edition and Steelbook Edition at Amazon. These are region-free imports from the UK, but they ship for free and can be ordered on Amazon's US storefront.
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