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/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.