I could see the whole series being done in one movie maybe 2.5 hrs long would need to get rid of these parts of the books:
Book 1 - Get rid of this book altogether, wouldn't need it.
Book 2 - Keep it
Book 3 - Good, except nothing about Jake New York scenes
Book 4 - Get rid of Mejis flashback and all that has to do with it
Book 5 - No Mia's baby storyline, focuses mostly on the fight for Calla, no Pere Callahan flashback
Book 6 - No Stephen King storylines, no Mia storylines, was there anything else in this book? lol
Book 7 - Good focused mostly on fight to save the beam and Roland and Suzannah's Journey. No Stephen King storyline, Jake would have to die in the fight along with Eddie.
So basically it would be an adventure story without all the flashbacks and time warps and all that stuff. Starts with the drawing of the three, journey to Calla, fight with the wolves, journey to the breaker city (dont remember the name), fight to save the beam, journey to the tower - the end. Easy.

Oy was in Kingdom Hospital series, adapted from the danish "Riget". It wasn't any good, but it made my mind explode seeing Oy, even though he wasn't named in the bits I saw, I knew, JUST KNEW it was Oy, the snout, and yeah, that was pretty amazing.
I found a really crappy screenshot, but here you go: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/kingdomhospital/images/1024/anteater.html

Maybe they could do it in movies, but it couldn't be the same actors and actresses throughout. The books took 30 yrs to develop. Maybe the films could work the same way. I understand that it kind of sucks when actors are different in sequels, but these wouldn't be your typical sequels. Also, there could be a different actor for young Roland. The whole Wizard and Glass story could be all different actors.
I believe it would be more about the story then the actual actors. I see how this makes it even less likely with studios and what not, but I'll watch them. I'd just like it on the big screen vs 60 min shows on HBO.

i always liked viggo mortensen as roland. not LOTR viggo but more along the lines of a history of violence. i watched that with my brother a while back and we were both like "Holy S#!T, its Roland!!!"

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theres no way there will show the demon rapeing her lol unless maybe if its done useing a manga style cartoon
"one ring to bind them all"

Roland: Thomas Jane or Tim Olyphant
Jake: Cameron Bright (leech from X-Men the last stand)
Eddie: Edward Norton
Susanna: Kerry Washington
Oy: CGI (Andy Serkis' voice)
Crimson King: CGI (don't show his face)
The Man in Black: (forgot his namethe guy who plays Joe Chill on Batman Begins)
Father Callahan: James Cromwell
All others should be cast with lesser known or upstart actors

You guys need to understand that these films will take years to make. you cant put old actors in roles that willl not be filmed for six or seven years. the actors will need to be fresh, new faces. look at the past SK movies, Every film is about the story, never the actors.
Homer: "Your right!First thing tomorow im gonna punch Lenny in the back of the head."

They have to keep the ending. That one was such a shocker for me. After reading all the books, the whole tale gets flipped on you. Roland just can't get a break.

hey peeps,
heres mycast for a Dark Tower movie, I know that some of you will disagree, but you can stick it where the gun don't shoot
Roland-Daniel Day Lewis
Eddie-Johnny Depp or the guy who played Larry Underwood in THE STAND
Sussanah-Halle Berry
Cort-Tommy Lee Jones
Walter/Flagg-Jamey Sheridan or Edward Norton
The Crimson King-Charlton Heston or Clint Eastwood
Jake-I don't know of many child actors, so I guess whoever looks and plays him the best
Callahan-I'm not sure about this one either
Oy-The Taco Bell Dog!!!(lol, jus kidding)probably some CGI thing
The director should either be Clint Eastwood(Million Dollar Baby), Mick Garris (The Stand), or Ridley Scott (Gladiator)
"We are Ka-tet, we are one from manyI think I'm Ka-mai(Ka's fool)"

Stand and Be Truedo ye ken?

Ka is a wheel.
That must be one big feckin wheel.

See the TURTLE, ain't he keen?
All things serve the beep beam
Oh, Susannah-Mio
Divided girl of mine
Done parked her rig
In the Dixie Pig
In the year of '99

i disagree about cgi being crap, but i do think that traditional animation techniques could better compliment the books' tones and imagery. or maybe cel animation in a cgi environment?
"A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man" - Jebediah Springfield

I totally agree, I think that animation is the way to go with this one. There are just so many things to this movie that you would have to use CGI to get a lot of it done, and I think that CGI is crap (just my opinion).

i've had an idea for a while that it could be done on HBO or summat, and in the style of the animatrix, where each of the seven books is done by a different animator/director. i think that it would be absolutely perfect.
"A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man" - Jebediah Springfield

I say go for it. Maybe someone will be interested.
"I bought myself a parrot. The parrot talked. But it did not say, 'I'm hungry.' So it died."

Oh SevenJT, don't mean to berate you or anything, but you forgot the Kingfish. This was supposedly THE Crimson King from "Insomnia." That is supposedly why the Crimson King appears so old at the end of the dark tower. Ralph mucked him up good.
I was actually bored enough to write up a small screenplay for the first book, since it was, like, really short compared to the other tomes of the Dark Toweralso it's not as stuffed with as much scenery. A huge desert, a town on the brink of becoming nothing but a deserted devil-grass garden, an underground mining area with a type of railway system, and at the end a huge beach with a few questioning, four-foot long creatures
Yeah, I could definitely write the others if I were just inspired enough

The dark tower series was bloody awesome. I was disappointed at the crimson king being so futile and weak at the end. However i dont think he was that weak all along and this is shown in other books relating to the dark tower but not in the series itself. Heres my idea on how he became so weak. if uv read the talisman then youl know that every1 has a twinner, a person in an alternate world who shares a connection with them. And when one twinner dies then so does the other. The crimson King, being such a powerful entity has more than one twinner, weaker than him but all separately providing huge power for him eg. IT, TAK, BARLOW etc. And as each of these "twinners" is killed, the crimson king becomes weaker. I also believe he is connected to all of his lower minions aswel. And as all of his "twinners" are killed he becomes very very weak, however still immortal. In Black House his power is obviously reduced significantly when the big industrial death machine is destroyed.

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!!!!!
"one ring to bind them all"

Ka is a wheel.

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.

Say Gawd-bomb!

King was also saying on his website that he didn't want people to associate an actor with his charactors. I was thinking maybe it could be done with animation a style similar to that of Kill Bill vol. 1