Rumor: Dark Tower Films May Be Dead

[mexicola]

I'm fine with this. If it goes according to my plan they will postpone filming this movie until we invent the time machine and then they will get young Clint Eastwood to star as Roland.

 

[lumenadducere]

I absolutely loved the books but I'm kinda glad it's stalled. I don't see any real way the books could easily be translated to film form, so it's probably for the best.

But damn, I really need to re-read those.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

thank god, this book series started out decent and ended up convoluted and boring (esp. after King's near death experience being hit by a car).

 

[Ostman]

Didn't know much about this, but who is/was being cast as Susannah?
She would need to be a spectacular actress to pull that off without being over the top.

 

[A.Balthazor]

The first four books were so much superior to his last three... and I believe Mr. King had a significant lapse in time between these two sets of books. At book five and on he decided to write himself into the series, which I found bizarre, and the ending was truly lame.

The advantage of a screen adaptation could be the possibility of tweaking some of these elements to make them better, though.

 

[emeraldrafael]

I think the difference with this is that The Dark Tower books arent as popular or known as LotR.

dunno, i actually think dark tower might be more popular. i read both, and LotR is nowhere near as enjoyable to read as the dark tower :\

Yeah, but how many people have heard of Stephen King over Tolkien? And how many more have actually read it? Tolkien has been far more influential and known. And as you can see there's a lot of king hate for him being "plain", even though Tolkien didnt do aynthing truly spectacular when you actually read it.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

*looks skyward* KKKIIIIIIINNNNNNGGGG!

Seriously, one of my favorite fantasy series in recent memory (granted, I've missed some legends like Terry Goodkind and George R.R. Martin, along with Neil Gaiman) was written by a man famed for his horror books. And this is the thanks he gets? You remake Children of the Corn, but turn down Dark Tower? The fuck's wrong with you, Hollywood?

I think the difference with this is that The Dark Tower books arent as popular or known as LotR.

dunno, i actually think dark tower might be more popular. i read both, and LotR is nowhere near as enjoyable to read as the dark tower :\

Yeah, but how many people have heard of Stephen King over Tolkien? And how many more have actually read it? Tolkien has been far more influential and known. And as you can see there's a lot of king hate for him being "plain", even though Tolkien didnt do aynthing truly spectacular when you actually read it.

Um...I think nowadays, more people would recognize the name of Stephen King than J.R.R. Tolkien. If you walk up to a person on the street, they would say "Oh, that guy who writes horror books" to Stephen King's name, while with J.R.R. Tolkien, unless they are a fantasy fan, would probably stare at you until you say "the guy who wrote the Lord of the Rings books". Hell, Peter Jackson's name might be more recognizable, considering the number of people who saw the movies vs. the number of people who read the books.

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

Dark Tower deserves better than Ron Howard.

Precisely. I thought Frank Darabont was itching to do an adaptation of the Dark Tower. I also heard that the writers and directors of Lost had the rights but were waiting until Lost had finished before doing anything.

Part of me is sad and part of me is glad at this news. While the books deserve to be immortalised on screen, there are just so many ways people can fuck it up. Especially in the last book where they meet Stephen King. That could be tragic.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

Dark Tower deserves better than Ron Howard.

Precisely. I thought Frank Darabont was itching to do an adaptation of the Dark Tower. I also heard that the writers and directors of Lost had the rights but were waiting until Lost had finished before doing anything.

Part of me is sad and part of me is glad at this news. While the books deserve to be immortalised on screen, there are just so many ways people can fuck it up. Especially in the last book where they meet Stephen King. That could be tragic.

Frank Darabont? The guy who did The Shawshank Redemption? *looks it up on IMDB to confirm it* ... *pictures an adaption as faithful to the original as TSR was* I need new pants.

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

Dark Tower deserves better than Ron Howard.

Precisely. I thought Frank Darabont was itching to do an adaptation of the Dark Tower. I also heard that the writers and directors of Lost had the rights but were waiting until Lost had finished before doing anything.

Part of me is sad and part of me is glad at this news. While the books deserve to be immortalised on screen, there are just so many ways people can fuck it up. Especially in the last book where they meet Stephen King. That could be tragic.

Frank Darabont? The guy who did The Shawshank Redemption? *looks it up on IMDB to confirm it* ... *pictures an adaption as faithful to the original as TSR was* I need new pants.

That's him alright. He also did an adaptation of The Mist (which I loved) and most recently the pilot to a little series called The Walking Dead.

 

[Nackl of Gilmed]

Did anyone see Kingdom Hospital, the TV series he wrote that got cancelled after the first season? I wanted to like it, but it just seemed to run out of steam around the three-quarter mark.

 

[Nenad]

Nooooooooo! A series perhaps? They made it with Game of Thrones!

 

[Yosato]

Dark Tower deserves better than Ron Howard.

Dark Tower deserves better than Akiva Goldsman! I was so gutted when I heard that news that I'm glad this isn't being made. I already sat through Dragon Ball Evolution and Eragon - I wouldn't want to add a bronze medal to the worst adaptions ever made.

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

Dark Tower deserves better than Ron Howard.

You're goddamn right about that. Give it to Frank Darabont I say. He wanted it in the first place and seriously loves King's work.

The series did jump the shark a bit when King wrote himself into the story.