Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence is the latest filmmaker to take a stab at a Stephen King adaptation. Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, and Charlie Plummer star as the young men who’ve signed up for a competition where they must walk until one of them is the last man standing.

Jack Colwell, of Dickenson, TX, reads while hundreds of people wait in line to enter the San Diego Convention Center behind him during Preview Night for the 2025 Comic-Con International convention on Wednesday. (Meg McLaughlin / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Is San Diego Comic-Con worth skipping? Hollywood studios debate. But for the time being they're committing with big projects like 'Tron: Ares' & HBO's James Gunn show 'Peacemaker'