If they cast McConaughey again, please please please just make sure we can't see his fake skin on his forehead for his wig cap or whatever was going on there. Anyone else know what I'm talking about? :lol:
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If they cast McConaughey again, please please please just make sure we can't see his fake skin on his forehead for his wig cap or whatever was going on there. Anyone else know what I'm talking about? :lol:
Perfect partnership. I trust Amazon and its deep pockets to do right by the show. Here's hoping...
I heard the entire series will be done with shadow puppets and voiced over with people speaking nothing but pig Latin.
Amazon contacted me to say that the series is in development, but have not been green lighted.
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Originally Posted by Ben Staad
As they should. It's three books that won every award ever vs books that not even all King fans can get through whose protagonist is a child killing gun rapist. Consider also that science fiction shows have been doing well and the attempt to film DT was less than spectacular.Quote:
Originally Posted by herbertwest
Man, the way you describe Roland... I always thought of him as a bad-ass hero. :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by WeDealInLeadAs they should. It's three books that won every award ever vs books that not even all King fans can get through whose protagonist is a child killing gun rapist. Consider also that science fiction shows have been doing well and the attempt to film DT was less than spectacular.Quote:
Originally Posted by herbertwest
As long as sci fi shows have existed, they've done well.
rapist???
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I'm due for another re-read but that's what I remember happened. Someone can correct me if my memory's crap.
Originally Posted by WeDealInLeadspoiler
Originally Posted by WeDealInLeadAs they should. It's three books that won every award ever vs books that not even all King fans can get through whose protagonist is a child killing gun rapist. Consider also that science fiction shows have been doing well and the attempt to film DT was less than spectacular.Quote:
Originally Posted by herbertwest
Originally Posted by WeDealInLeadAs they should. It's three books that won every award ever vs books that not even all King fans can get through whose protagonist is a child killing gun rapist. Consider also that science fiction shows have been doing well and the attempt to film DT was less than spectacular.Quote:
Originally Posted by herbertwest
Although the Walking Dead still seems to be doing all right, even though the main protagonist has recently become a straight up murderer.
Originally Posted by BadWolfGirl
Although starting the movies again at TDoTT isn't a bad idea. They'd have to re-work a few plot points (the origin of Mordred and the mentral struggle Jake and Roland went through with Jake existing/not existing at the same time, but they could probably do it.
Originally Posted by Isamu Dyson
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Originally Posted by BadWolfGirl
Example: it could begin with Eddie in New York meeting Roland and being taken back with him to MidWorld, with Roland explaining the prophecy of finding three doors to three different times to draw three who will join his quest, with various settings and events taken from the books and repurposed to go between finding each door------they have to fight through Tull before finding the door to Susannah, then have to go under the mountains and fight Slow Mutants before finding Jake's door, etc. This would obviously be a "liberal" adaptation, but it would have a more traditional fantasy-adventure-quest structure that newbie audiences could grasp--------a familar framework upon which all the idiosyncrasies and uniqueness of the DT series could be "sold", as opposed to just omitting them completely, which was what the feature film did.
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Against all odds, The Dark Tower TV series still has a pulse.
Last summer, a film adaptation of Stephen King’s enduring fantasy Western series hit theaters. It starred Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey as gunslinger Roland Deschain and his nemesis, the Man in Black, two mythical figures warring over the fate of a grand structure that upholds nothing less than the universe itself.
The movie pulled ideas from several of King’s eight Dark Tower books, while also serving as something of a sequel to the series. And more pressingly, it was — put lightly — an unmitigated garbage fire for Sony Pictures, earning roundly terrible reviews and underperforming at the box office.
Such a grim result seemed at the time to pour cold water all over previously established plans to follow The Dark Tower with sequels and a related TV series. (The TV series was originally developed by MRC and eventually made its way to Amazon.)
In a recent interview with Deadline Hollywood, however, Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke revealed that the company’s efforts to craft a small-screen take on The Dark Tower aren’t over yet.
“Those are scripts that I haven’t gotten yet,” said Salke, responding to a question about long-in-development propositions including an adaptation of fantasy series The Wheel of Time as well as Dark Tower. “I’ll be seeing those, that material, in the coming weeks. None of those things are dead. They’re very much alive.”
There you have it — King acolytes may have a return to Mid-World to look forward to. Former Walking Dead showrunner Glen Mazzara was announced as the showrunner at one point, on a series that would pull heavily from King’s Wizard & Glass and focus on telling the origin story of Elba’s gunslinger. No word on whether Dark Tower director Nikolaj Arcel remains involved, or whether once-hatched plans to have Elba, Tom Taylor, and Dennis Haysbert reprise roles from the film still stand.
Our guess? Amazon will go back to the drawing board, and in doing so distance the series from last year’s Dark Tower. Even before the movie arrived (and flopped), King was alluding to the idea that Amazon’s series could tell a completely different story. “We’ll see what happens with that,” King said at the time. “It would be like a complete reboot, so we’ll just have to see.”