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The Dark Tower Movie in the works? Anonymous Fri Apr 30 15:50:06 2010 No.614777 [Reply] [Original]

So a friend forwarded this to me, looks like The Gunslinger movies finally got a green light and may actually be made.

http://www.deadline.com/2010/04/stephen-kings-dark-tower-set-for-film-trilogy-tv-series-by-beautiful
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Now, I'm really torn on this. The Dark Tower books are among my favorite novels of all time, I love the universe, and seeing a movie done right would be AMAZING. I'm not the type to automatically discount an adaptation, nor am I cynical enough to say that there haven't been good ones (Fight Club, Trainspotting come to mind), but seeing books I've held in such high regard for so long get butchered on screen is gonna suck. It goes without saying that most adaptation of Kings work fall FAR SHORT of being considered "good", but who knows...

So, to any Dark Tower fans out there, how does this news strike you? Elated, or horrified?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 30 15:52:06 2010 No.614787 What is /lit/'s viewpoint on movie adaptations? Any that /lit/ feels were actually on par with the novels?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 30 15:56:06 2010 No.614797 I'm a mixed of elated and horrified, I just really really hope that it's done right, and I have a hard time believing that it could be good in only 3 movies

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Anonymous Fri Apr 30 15:57:06 2010 No.614812

>>614797
>I have a hard time believing that it could be good in only 3 movies

Same...it's easily 4 times the content of LOTR and a trilogy barely did it justice.

They should do it each book gets a movie, although even so the latter novels would probably need to be split like the last Harry Potter flick...

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 30 15:59:06 2010 No.614821 Make each movie in the trilogy 6 hours long, and it'll be great

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 30 15:59:06 2010 No.614822 >>614812 I agree completely, it's the main thing that I'm worried about with the movies

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 30 15:59:06 2010 No.614824 Think Viggo Mortenson as Roland would be too much of a stretch? Think it's too Aragorn like? I would said Clint Eastwood 20 years ago, but he's way too old now ; ;

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 30 15:59:58 2010 No.614825 >>614773 hT+P,// 88 DÒ+ 80 dó+ 21 dot 12 / Ps R3mOW€ yÓüR ÍLIEGÀ\| cIòN€ òf àT òk MoÓ+ARd ú ÚG\|Y SHÍt

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 30 16:02:06 2010 No.614835 >>614824 I think if Viggo was a few years older it would be a pretty damn good match

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 30 16:08:06 2010 No.614852 Seth Rogan as Roland.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 30 16:09:06 2010 No.614854 I'm hoping for Daniel Day Lewis as the Man in Black.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 30 16:09:06 2010 No.614855 >>614852 No, we need someone with more star power. Tom Cruise as Roland. YEAH!!!!!

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 30 16:12:06 2010 No.614861 Michael Bay presents The Dark Tower trilogy.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 30 16:17:06 2010 No.614863 >>614861 God how awful that would be.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 30 16:21:06 2010 No.614866 >>614852 >>614855 >>614861 Please stop, you're going to make me cry.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 30 16:23:06 2010 No.614869 Music by Danny Elfman. Eddy Murphy in drag as Susannah. Zach Braff as Eddie. Justin Bieber as Jake.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 30 16:24:06 2010 No.614870 >>614869 Oh God make it stop... Garey Busey as Callahan.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 30 16:27:06 2010 No.614877 Billy Connoly as Brown. Dane Cook as Randall Flagg

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 30 16:31:06 2010 No.614897 >>614877 >>614870 >>614869 >>614861 >>614855 >>614852 I CAN'T HEAR YOU LALALALALALLA

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 30 16:38:06 2010 No.614912 >>614877 >>614877 >Dane Cook I'll fucking kill you.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 30 16:40:06 2010 No.614916 To top it all off, it's narrated. By none other than.... Drumroll please... Chris Rock.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 30 16:46:06 2010 No.614932 Chris Pine as Roland, Dominic Monaghan as Eddie, Jada Pinkett SMith as Susannah, Justin Beiber as Jake, and the guy that played smeagol as Oy! Yeah, woot!

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 30 16:46:06 2010 No.614934 >>614916 I'll shit on your grave.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 30 16:50:06 2010 No.614940 Gary Oldman as MIB

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 30 16:51:06 2010 No.614944 don't forget the stettering bill robot will be played by john ritter's corpse the crimson king will be played by the band crimson king and sheemy will be patrick stewart

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 30 16:58:06 2010 No.614965 >>614932 >Dominic Monaghan as Eddie Imokaywiththis.jpg

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 30 17:09:06 2010 No.614984 >>614916 why u do this?

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Roland of Gilead !!ljskqCDbtBq Fri Apr 30 17:15:06 2010 No.615005

I thought it would work better as a miniseries since there is so fucking much ground to cover.
A miniseries originally was going to be made by JJ Abrams and I believe the two guys who are doing Lost, but they turned it down eventually.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 30 17:42:06 2010 No.615092 >>615005 it's going to be a film trilogy AND a tv series. but look who is writing it look him up on imdb if you dont recognize him go ahead, look

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Roland of Gilead !!ljskqCDbtBq Fri Apr 30 17:44:06 2010 No.615099

>>615092
In late April 2010 was announced that Ron Howard will helm the film adaption as director. Bringing with him Akiva Goldsman who will be writing the script, and Howard's Imagine Entertainment partner Brian Grazer to produce[22] With the plan being to condense the 7 book story into a Trilogy on film.

Nothing about a television series. I don't follow directors though, so is Howard good or not?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 30 17:51:06 2010 No.615121 >>615099 Two Oscars, for what that's worth. Some good films, many terrible ones. He did the film adaptations of Dan Brown's books, which were awful. Mixed bag. The writer did Batman and Robin. So yeah.

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