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That is generally true but not always. People hated the adaptation of Alan Moore's From Hell. It was only loosely based on the book etc. Well, okay, here's Watchmen. Nah, that's a too literal...

Alan Moore said, "If the audience knew what they wanted, they wouldn't be the audience." Maybe harsh but essentially true.

King has millions of fans. Whose opinion should the studios listen to?...

Jake and the children in Tull.

He rapes Sylvia with his revolver and forces her to have a miscarriage.

I'm due for another re-read but that's what I remember happened. Someone can correct me if my memory's crap.

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...

Not sure it would make a difference. The studio would have to have MASSIVE faith in the Dark Tower series to commit to the money and resources and writing that it would take to do it right. It is...

Wasn't aware that that's a genre- but that hits the spot perfectly


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I'm curious... wouldn't Roland saving the boy be exactly the point of the final...

I'm not sure if this is a subtle nod to It or a fan (me) seeing what he wants to see: when Roland and Jake are sitting around the campfire and Jake's map of the Tower and the guardians, Roland pushes...

I've seen both those shows and in the episodes I've seen, the supposed good guy wasn't shooting children in the head.

Edit: just so there's no misunderstanding, I really want a legitimate,...

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That's how I feel about the cowardly movie making and King's lack of ability, or desire, to protect his work. It's not just this movie. Most of the movies from his work are...

Not for nothing...the audience score is 63%. Critics have it at 18%.

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Worth it for the scene of the tower piercing through the clouds alone.

The movie was OK. It was neat seeing the doorways, Maerlyn's grapefruits, Devar-Toi, and all the fancy gun-fu....

I saw the poster at the local theater. Can't believe this is happening.

I'm curious if a straight adaptation with minimal deviation would start and end with The Gunslinger. It's not even the lack of a distinct selling point or a target audience (there's a little of...

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Agreed, his language should've been more precise.

Even a single novel would do. I'm pumped to see the movie version of the end, but nothing would top a legitimate, full-stop ending by King. Something bittersweet like 11/22/63 would work; an epiphany...

In The Gunslinger alone -- and this is off the top of my head -- he uses his guns on at least three different occasions, squeezing out by my estimate roughly sixty rounds: Tull, mutants in the...

Yup and then I'm hoping that was what we all think it was.

(Keeping it vague in case someone who hasn't read the book is reading the thread.)

Flagg did have powers in the books though didn't he? It seems if anything, he was under-powered in the DT books. But he had more in The Stand and Eyes of the Dragon.[/QUOTE]

Indeed. Surviving an...

They're not reshooting anything, just shooting additional scenes.