Staying for 5 days with boyfriend. Flights, hotels(breakfast included) & boat trip to Benagil Caves already sorted out and paid for.

Planning to visit the strip, the beaches, maybe a day trip to Lagos or Old Town and just chill, go out for lunches and dinners and relax and stuff. Got a dinner booked at Versatile and a slot at Mirador Champagne Bar.

How much spending money would I need?

Edit: right now I have £500 set aside but can add more. Also we’re not big drinkers at all.

Staying for 5 days, flights, hotels(breakfast included) & boat trip to Benagil Caves already sorted out and paid for.

Planning to visit the strip, the beaches, maybe a day trip to Lagos or Old Town and just chill, go out for lunches and dinners and relax and stuff.

How much spending money would I need?

I had an idea for the sequel/spiritual successor to the film adaptation of The Long Walk, TL;DR at the bottom.

(Forgive my inconsistent use of the words female/male and boys/girls , men/women this was very much a brain dump of ideas I wanted to get down quickly lol. Disclaimer: I have NOT read the book)

LW - Long Walk
OG - Original
MC - Main Character

# Concept

This time it’s an all-female walk instead of all boys. Same retro-dystopian aesthetic as the OG. Feminine but not in a girlboss, female power, radical feminist overthrowing men type of way but more of a psychological horror that focuses on the concept of breaking down femininity, social performance and social dynamics between girls, competition, betrayal and being perceived.
 
So when you take the original LW (Long Walk), it initially shows off all the participants as young, fit, masculine healthy men, however this idea is completely broken down by the severity of the walk, they become exhausted and humiliated trying to survive, and in that they become too exhausted and too focused on survival to hide their shame that they’ve been conditioned to have surrounding exhaustion, emotion, feeling scared, sentimental etc. We get to see how boys interact with each other, on smaller scales and large. We see what kind of stuff they talk about, how many different archetypes of personalities there are in each boy – you’ve got the social magnet, the popular guy, the quiet guy, the nerd, the jock etc yet its done well, not in a high-school cliché type of way. Its raw and its real. We get a glimpse of everyone’s inner world.
In the same way, the female LW should highlight the female inner world – via induidual characters and also what it means to be a woman in general. We could see them interact, hear what they talk about, see how they handle the LW much differently and handle crisis differently to the men in the OG, what they think of one another. Their ultimate motives for even participating in the first place.
 
So, (hear me out ) the girls would start off as recognizable archetypes – popular girl/social magnet/charismatic type (think, kinda like Ray but not identical – has similar qualities and whatnot)

Qualities like….
\-              She could be the one that calms people down
\-              She shares her supplies
\-              She provides comic relief for the other girls and makes them laugh
\-              She keeps morale alive
\-              She notices when someone’s struggling
\-              Treats everyone with general warmth

That’s one girl, one of the MCs. Then there would be the other girls that fit into recognizable archetypes like the quiet girl/s, mean girl/s, nerdy girl/s, kinda batshit unhinged girl/s, awkward girl/s, plus-size and plain girl/s and pretty girl/s etc….i think you know what im getting at. But make it less high-school cliché.

As the walk progresses, we start off with the recognizable archetypes but along the way they break down, and those identities slowly collapse and what is revealed is real. Its raw..
I think the film could use these devices(?) to explore the inner world of the female experience without making it gimmicky:
\-              Menstruation while on the LW (parallel visuals to how the men were shown sh\*tting in the OG lol)
\-              Objectification. Male spectators/soldiers sexualizing or harassing the female participants – creates a strong bitter contrast wherein the girls are still being sexualized and objectified even while at their worst moments, being sweaty, bleeding, crying and exhausted on the LW
\-              Female competition and female group social dynamics. How do women at when they’re in groups? How do they compete? Etc
\-              Emotional performance
\-              The desire to be chosen/validated  

# Storyline

As for the main storyline, I imagine that the rules of the walk are the same as the OG. The prize is money and 1 wish and getting to meet the Major and you are chosen from a lottery of other girls. However, there’s a new Major. He’s younger than the OG and attractive. The protagonist enters the walk because she’s obsessed with the new major – he’s attractive, fit and young and represents status, validation, glamour and escape. She fantasizes about winning the LW to meet him and hoping to seduce him into marrying her – thus securing her a lifetime of wealth, status etc. She plots to become close friends with the main girl but secretly only feigning a friendship with her, wanting to use her help and perceived social status within the group to her advantage – winning. She understands that by staying close to the strongest/socially smartest, most likely to win contestant, will help her survive long enough to get to the end and meet the Major.

The tragic part is that over time the friendship becomes real.

Then at the very end, when they’re the final two girls left and the crowds are watching, the protagonist betrays her in order to win. (How?  I imagine she has a secret weapon? That she could’ve seduced one of the soldiers into giving her before the LW begins when they’re all waiting at the meeting point? She uses the weapon to harm her and win OR she pushes her to the ground and strangles her to death???)  Either way, she betrays her at the very last minute – the audience and the crowd believing there might be two winners but just at the last minute this changes for the worst) No dramatic villainy speech, just one selfish survival decision after days of suffering and using her.

Then she finally meets the Major after spending the whole film idolising him… only for the moment to feel emotionally empty and hollow because she sacrificed the only real human connection she had left for a fantasy. She grieves the connection they had and deeply regrets her decision.

The difference here vs the OG is that we get to see a different environment, we see stuff happen on the screen that isn’t just on the long path of the LW. I.e. after she wins a bloody victory, covered in sweat, blood, she’s traumatised and bruised, she’s whisked away by the team and taken to some mind of live press PR thing where they clean her up, cover her bruises with makeup, dress her in lovely clothes and do her hair etc to have the Major announce her as the winner and have the award her the prize, wish and a medal/pin(?) but he says something that makes her realise that while she was obsessing over him for 300+ miles, he couldn't even distinguish her from the girls he watched die. She sacrificed her humanity to be "special" to him, only to find out she’s just a blur of "exhausted girl" in his memory. He’s used to girls entering the Walk for him.

\- "I’m sorry... remind me which one you were again? The one with the limp, or the one who cried?"

\- "You girls always have that same look in your eyes at the end. You think you’re the first one who tried to 'win' me? There’s a girl like you every year, sweetheart. You’re not the first, and you won’t be the last."

(Possible addition - We also find out that the girl she killed was actually Rays younger sister? His mother could’ve been pregnant or had another child after he passed? She could’ve wanted to follow in her father and brothers footsteps in resisting authority and banned ideas thus she takes part in the LW?)

I do think that if this was done by the right female director it could be really good – there would be the extra level of understanding about woman-to-woman interactions and dynamics that im not too sure a male director would really grasp? At least not without sexualizing the hell out of the characters.

# About the major:

One of the other central themes I want to include is systemic continuinity through the belief that killing the person at the top (the Major) changes anything at all. Its an illusion. When in reality the system simply replaces them and continues unchanged. It also plays with ideas of obedience and authority — how people inherit the belief that systems are permanent, that leaders are replaceable, and that resistance feels meaningful even when the structure itself never really changes. This should emphasise the motif of obedience and power — the idea that authority doesn’t need to justify itself because people are taught, from childhood, to accept that systems are bigger than them, and that resistance rarely changes anything structurally.

Title ideas – ‘She Walks Still’ or ‘The Silent Walk’ or ‘The Long Walk: Femina”

Any thoughts or comments are appreciated ! I’d love to know what you guys think.

TL;DR An all-female version of The Long Walk where friendship becomes strategy, obsession drives survival, and the final betrayal happens just seconds before victory — revealing something darker about validation, power, and control than the Walk itself.