Dark Tower Movie
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- HijoDMaite
For those familiar with the books by Stephen King.
J.J. Abrams has apparently dropped out of the project in fear of screwing up the film. Now, Ron Howard is suppose to be on board.
Anyone know anything more than this?
- georgesIII0
At least he's honest,
better say no that end up like MnightSlamayan,Brace yourself
>>> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1462…- Aw, no. For reals?Continuity
- retarded.HijoDMaite
- haha, so they are serious about passing the baton to LaBoeufukit
- they should save face and have him be unexpectedly killed off in the first five minutesukit
- Didn't see 4, no intention of ruining my memories, dammitformed
- ukit0
I could see Mel Gibson in this
- HijoDMaite0
Last rumors were that Roland would be C. Bale. I think it should be Hugh Jackman.
- It should actually be Clint Eastwood from 45 years ago.monospaced
- Viggo maybe...or that guy who played Sawyer on Lost. I dunno.monospaced
- Viggo maybe.. I never saw Roland as anyone other than Clint TBH.d_rek
- I'll throw this out there - Caveziel?d_rek
- d_rek0
Fuck. A movie?
I'm an incredibly huge fan of the books. But I could never see them getting adapted to the big screen without getting really screwed up.
*sigh*
- ukit0
I think it could make a pretty cool movie.
You know what else they should make (or remake I guess) is The Stand.
- formed0
It'll probably be massacred as typical, but you gotta try, right? If they are good then they'd be something worth it, if they are more than 'good', then that would be something (I'll be the first one is good, then the next 2-3 suck progressively worse as they crank them out to make the cash).
Still, there is potential.
- monospaced0
There's enough there for more than a movie. More like a series.
- not if ron howad is directing - he'll kill any chance it has. awful, awful directorhans_glib
- are you kidding, what about Willow?rascuache
- hahahaHijoDMaite
- elahon0
How can you condense something the size of The Dark Tower series into a movie (or series of movies like the Harry Potter series)? There are so many layers, too much would have to be cut. Now an HBO series would be kick-ass. One season per book. That could possibly do it justice.
- Possibly. But then we have the potential for the show to get cut in season 5 when they start time traveling to NY.d_rek
- monospaced0
I wouldn't mind if they cut out a ton of the cheesy time-traveling. Reading Stephen King is one of my guilty-pleasures, but when he wrote himself into the story even I had to roll my eyes. Cut out some of the backstories behind his companions (in all honesty, they're borderline useless) and it can be brought down to maybe 1,738,548 hours.
- lolexador1
- Totally agree with writing himself into novel. Time traveling shit is totally retarded as well. Should have kept the entire story in gilead / future wasteland.d_rek
- gilead / wasteland.d_rek
- but you have to have the heroin/airplane scene.HijoDMaite
- chalk0
It's a relief to see a director actually admit they will fuck something up for once, instead of going full steam ahead and acting as if they made the best film adaptation possible.
- ETM0
"This latest development in the DT saga is being reported by the Heat Vision Blog, who tells us that Howard is teaming up with Brian Grazer and Akiva Goldsman to produce an initial Big Screen movie that would then lead on to a TV series. We could hazard a guess that if the television run became a huge success then they’d wrap the whole thing up with another movie release."
- fresnobob0
Of course its cheesy, doesn't mean its not awesome though. Anyways, I think Stephen King using himself fit the story rather well and helped make the whole thing more meaningful. No, its not as awesome as PKD in VALIS, but its a similar concept and in both cases serves the meaning of the story well.
- cannonball19780
Agreed. Respect for backing down because you feel you are incompatible.
- HijoDMaite0
I still think Hugh Jackman s/b Roland. It's worth noting that S.K. said himself he has never cared if they fuck up his movies, but the Dark Tower is his pride and joy. I guess the question is have CGIs caught up with the books.
- HijoDMaite0
Three movies, with a TV series in between each to bridge each film. Ron Howard directing first film and first TV series, Brian Grazer producing. I think we have a winner here!
- d_rek0
Thanks?
- SteveJobs0
any movie where stephen king makes a cameo is shit, the rest are good. prove me wrong
- You will be glad to know that according to him this is the only project he really cares about. The rest was for cash. He sold the rights to this movie for $19.HijoDMaite