All Things Serve The Beam…
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brightmidnight71 — 20 years ago(January 25, 2006 01:23 PM)
It could be an HBO mini-series. They wouldnt have to pull any punches, length and courting the popular demographics would not be a concern and HBO has a gift for getting great talent. Not to mention it would be a wonderful DVD package. I know they already have a western series with Deadwoodbut The Dark Tower isnt exactly a western. And they already have a perfect Roland on the payroll (please dont berate me too much for this) : Timothy Olyphant.
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andrewsmiled-1 — 18 years ago(July 04, 2007 07:51 PM)
This story will, as with all SK page to screen, lose a lot of its wonder and power. something is lost in translation. if something like this was produced it would be dissapointing, for me anyway. There is no way JJ Abrahams can put what i see in my mind and heart on the screen. He's good, but not that good
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mkee — 20 years ago(February 21, 2006 09:29 PM)
I could visualize a movie of 'the Gunslinger,' and worked a little bit on a adaptation back in a college class. I think it would be too difficult to make the whole series into movies and keep them on the same consistency as the books. Anyway-
I always thought Ray Liotta would make a good Roland. I like Johnny Depp for Walter/Flagg. I will have to think more about my ideal casting for DT1, postem later. -
adry_5 — 20 years ago(February 27, 2006 09:11 PM)
looking at the illustrations in "The Dark Tower" (book 7), I kinda thought the Artist might have been modeled at least in part on Johnny Depp (it's the mouth). I would definitely hope Depp would be in it somewhere. King mentioned B. B. Thornton as Roland, though he may have been kidding.
As for the amount of movie required, it seems a lot of the backstory (like 'Salem's Lot) could be briefly summarized, as it's already a book (& movie?) of its own. Just a sort of, "I'm Don Callahan," quick flashes of scenes from the Lot. & so forth with all the other tie-ins. I dunno, King said he's not anxious to put it to film. I'm going to get the comics, though.
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ManicAndMayhem — 20 years ago(March 02, 2006 09:38 AM)
I'm on the fifth book now, and I must say that I enjoyed the second book the most, and I'm finding the fifth book to deviate a bit from the style I grew to enjoy from the first four. Perhaps its because I read them back to back and its much easier to notice the dissimilarities in the writing style and the direction of the books.
In the meantime, I was also under the impression that a minisereies would do the series justice, although I'd go ahead and make it a full blown series with the first season having about 10-12 50 minute episodes for books 1 and 2, the second season having about 12 50 minute episodes for the 3rd and 4th books. And so fourth Really, the fourth book was alot longer than it needed to be. How many times did I have to read about charyou tree and the gunslingers counting stuff? Bah. -
mkee — 20 years ago(March 12, 2006 01:05 PM)
a sidenote of some intrest i was watching Tron on the tv today. I hadn't seen this movie since i rented it in like 1983 or 84. It was very entertaining. kinda brought me back to childhhood for a little bit. anyway, the characters ultimate goal was to journey to the dark tower, the nexus of this computer reality where the master control unit or whatever was controlling, beat the tower gaurdian, and then set the universe right again, the computer universe that is, and they had to ride the beams to get there. I thought that perhaps king may have been influenced by this disney epic? thoughts? opinions? anyone?
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andrewsmiled-1 — 18 years ago(July 13, 2007 06:41 PM)
ive been thingking about this for months, and (I hope they dont destroy this story by making a film) What if it was CGI?.No wouldnt work. I can see the wide sweeping landscape shots(desert, ocean, Mountains, you know what landscape is) anyway, ..
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speardog — 15 years ago(March 13, 2011 04:07 PM)
William Dafoe would be perfect as Flagg, so would Liam Neeson.
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jasonknopp — 19 years ago(July 08, 2006 08:34 AM)
I think that when Stephen King said that he did not want an actor associated with his characters he was no talking about people so much as having a concrete image placed on his characters. That's why the covers of his books are not "last supper"-esk depictions of the characters. Most of the characters on the covers are not even facing you. So an animated feature would be just as bad. I'm sure he was loathed to have the Marvel comic done as well. However, Marvel has the money to tempt the halo off an angel.
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MRstonerscififan — 19 years ago(August 28, 2006 08:06 AM)
i 100% LOVED all the books apart from the way the last 1 ended that time loop thing was just a let down after readding thou all them books but then as king says its the journy that counts (sorry about my bad spelling)
i also loved the way King was in the book himself, i didnt see that comeing!, and jake comeing back that was a shocker too, wounder if they will ever make the books into films
i never cryed at books before but then the dark tower books came along!!!!!
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