Universal Pictures and NBC have made a deal to film Steven King's Dark Tower series as a movie trilogy with a TV series interspersed between the film releases. Ron Howard will direct the first movie and first season of the TV show. Akiva Goldsman will write the movie and show. Brian Grazer will produce along with Goldsman and Steven King.
It makes some sense, no denying, but it's so insanely ambitious the odds are this is going to blow on a very large scale. I'm even more convinced than I was before that Jon Hamm is the only person who can play Roland.
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That said, I'm modestly hopeful. It sounds ambitious, and I like that. It's that kind of thinking Hollywood needs and the Dark Tower deserves. Also, I second Hamm as Roland Deschain.
I think that will be cool, I have read the 1st 3 or 4 of the series and need to finish it but my husband has been wanting this for a long long time now. He loves this series.
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That's pretty damned sweet. To really capture the feel of the series, though, they'd need to do like a dozen apparently unrelated projects that turn out to tie into it.
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Okay wow. I find myself excited...Ron Howard and a combo of TV and movies (which while complicated and ambitious makes TOTAL SENSE)?? And terrified, because with the exception of those directed by Rob Reiner, screen adaptations of King's books tend to suck ass. Dark Tower is too awesome and epic to destroy like they did The Stand
Okay wow. I find myself excited...Ron Howard and a combo of TV and movies (which while complicated and ambitious makes TOTAL SENSE)?? And terrified, because with the exception of those directed by Rob Reiner, screen adaptations of King's books tend to suck ass. Dark Tower is too awesome and epic to destroy like they did The Stand
Stanley Kubrick would like a word with you.
That said, I'd thought Lindelof and Cuse were going to be involved with this but I guess that was just a baseless rumour. Anyway, hopefully this'll be good.
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Okay wow. I find myself excited...Ron Howard and a combo of TV and movies (which while complicated and ambitious makes TOTAL SENSE)?? And terrified, because with the exception of those directed by Rob Reiner, screen adaptations of King's books tend to suck ass. Dark Tower is too awesome and epic to destroy like they did The Stand
Stanley Kubrick would like a word with you.
That said, I'd thought Lindelof and Cuse were going to be involved with this but I guess that was just a baseless rumour. Anyway, hopefully this'll be good.
Kubrick didn't adapt a King book, he made a hell of a movie that used the same names and places as a King book.
i didn't think The Stand was that bad on the little screen. i think Stephen King just has a way of rushing endings and they end up silly. if they come off that way on paper, they're gonna leave you even more disappointed on television. you invest a lot of time in his good storytelling, only to feel kinda cheated at the end. Stephen King isn't good at ending things. even a speeding car couldn't do it for him.
all that said- i think it sounds cool and with those big shots backing the production it's bound to make heaps of money. i'll watch it.
i didn't think The Stand was that bad on the little screen. i think Stephen King just has a way of rushing endings and they end up silly. if they come off that way on paper, they're gonna leave you even more disappointed on television. you invest a lot of time in his good storytelling, only to feel kinda cheated at the end. Stephen King isn't good at ending things. even a speeding car couldn't do it for him.
Exactly. Awesome story....awesome story...awesome story...end; what the fuck was that?
I picked the Dark Tower up at a book sale the other day (haven't read it yet), $8 for a bag of books. I like those book sales.
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He's a bit older than Roland is in the book, but I would be perfectly delighted with Viggo anyway on account of he's awesome and I him.
Yabbut remember at the end of the Gunslinger, he wakes up after his palaver with Marten greatly aged. Through the rest of the series he is discussed as being or looking 40'sish (though time slips and hundreds of years go by and all that )
I guess I can accept Viggo, but only if Shia LeBeouf and Michael Cera are sure they aren't available.
ETA: Also, isn't Roland supposed to be, like, thousands of years old, thanks to the the way time had gotten since the world moved on? I don't think Viggo is older than that.
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