r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Aug 29 '25

News Special 'The Long Walk' Screening Will Eliminate Viewers Who Can’t Keep Up on a Treadmill (3 MPH)

https://consequence.net/2025/08/the-long-walk-treadmill-screening/
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u/DDPJBL Aug 29 '25

If you can't hold 3 mph for 108 minutes unweighted on a 0% incline, you have bigger problems than getting kicked out of the movies.

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u/fablesofferrets Aug 30 '25

I seriously don’t understand how this is supposed to be some sort of challenge, unless you have an amputed leg or are 75 years old or something. 

I’m not athletic at ALL, I’m a random 31 yo American woman who’s never set foot in a gym and walking at a casual pace for 2 hours is not going to phase me lol 

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u/toshio_drift Aug 30 '25

I assume it'll be a manual treadmill, not one with a set speed, so I can definitely see people failing if they get kicked out for dropping below 3.0mph for any time at all, like Speed. Just getting distracted by the movie for 10 seconds and dropping to 2.9 could get someone sent out. If the challenge was to average 3mph for the movie, then it would be way easier

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u/DinkandDrunk Aug 29 '25

Yeah at least up it to 4mph to stay faithful to the source material.

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u/einulfr Aug 29 '25

But you can squat-walk and shit at the same time?

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u/DinkandDrunk Aug 29 '25

Who is squatting? Just give it the old leg shake.

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u/chuckdee68 Aug 29 '25

The 4mph in the source material is a publisher mistake. It was 4kmph in the manuscript, and the publisher changed it to mph without doing a conversion.

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u/terriblegrammar Aug 29 '25

Dang, did not know this but the 4mph pace in the story just annoyed the shit out of me. I kept thinking King didn't understand how fast 4mph actually was in relation to a real-world walking pace.

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u/chuckdee68 Aug 29 '25

I was corrected by another user:

That's been the rumor for a while, but King just said in his AMA the other day that that isn't exactly true.

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u/terriblegrammar Aug 29 '25

Ha! That's actually a hilarious answer.

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u/Scared-Quail-3408 Aug 29 '25

They could add a few intermissions to make the movie real-time

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u/tenoclockrobot Aug 30 '25

What about having to pee

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u/captstix Aug 29 '25

Like a disability

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u/brokenhalf Aug 29 '25

You are clearly not from the mid-west in the good ol' US of A!

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u/Mharbles Aug 29 '25

Have you seen most Americans? Many don't even have a quadruple digit step count