He's chasing the MIB because he thinks that he's the only way he can get information about the Tower.Originally Posted by Iwritecode
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He's chasing the MIB because he thinks that he's the only way he can get information about the Tower.
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On the subject of Oy, I am extremely wary. CGI is almost never convincing and ages rapidly and poorly. If they do decide to bring Oy to the screen, I hope it's through some puppetry, with CGI there solely as an aid, rather than a crutch. Computer-generated characters never have weight.
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Why not have a live animal? Just a breed of dog of some kind? Plus they made very real-looking animals in The Jungle Book.
Gollum worked pretty well too. IMHO
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They can have Oy but just use him sporadically.
Maybe his participation in the story is cut down so that when they do use him, it will have greater effect.
Kinda like what they did with Ghost in Game of Thrones.
A high quality two-dimensional The Dark Tower film or series of films would have been amazing, yes, but it/they would also have allowed for a fully animated Oy as well.
Perhaps keep him in Jake's backpack most of the time? His head can be a high quality animatronic puppet.
That could work.
All I know is that if they do full CGI, Andy Serkis should play him lmao
Or, they could go all "Monty Python" with him......................
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Yeah I think it's way too much jumping to conclusions that the sequel aspect changes anything other than the ending, and what led to a different ending. I'm not quite sure how any Dark Tower fan wouldn't want to see those changes. It gives closure to the story. Of course, many things will change and many things will be omitted as part of the adaptation, but that is the nature of adaptations in general and this is a very difficult one indeed.
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Vinnie Jones can voice Oy the way only a true footballer could.
"Oy! OY!"
Even if there is a definite 'ending' anything not written by King himself will always glorified fan fiction to me.
And even if he doesn't say it, King himself probably agrees. It's clear for example that for all the talk of the comics being canon he couldn't care less about them and ended up ignoring everything Furth introduced when he wrote the eighth book.
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Could they not use the team who made The life of Pi to do Oy??? The CGI in that film were great... also for a "voice" I'd use Eastwood... it's husky enough to be an animal!!!
I think he will write it. Otherwise I agree.Even if there is a definite 'ending' anything not written by King himself will always glorified fan fiction to me.
And even if he doesn't say it, King himself probably agrees. It's clear for example that for all the talk of the comics being canon he couldn't care less about them and ended up ignoring everything Furth introduced when he wrote the eighth book.
Edit: Damn I should have done something better for my 19th post.
Can you folks just let the OY part go. Roland and Jake are in this movie. The other members of the Ka-Tet aren't.
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True. I heard that some scenes from the trailer of SUICIDE SQUAD is not in the final movie, and someone sued the studios for misleading them.At best, he might be in a sketch somewhere on a wall, but even that background or the scene it is in might not make the final film.I'm pretty sure Oy won't be in the first movie.
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He's not writing it. Nikolaj Arcel, Anders Thomas Jensen, Akiva Goldsman and Jeff Pinkner are.I think he will write it. Otherwise I agree.Even if there is a definite 'ending' anything not written by King himself will always glorified fan fiction to me.
And even if he doesn't say it, King himself probably agrees. It's clear for example that for all the talk of the comics being canon he couldn't care less about them and ended up ignoring everything Furth introduced when he wrote the eighth book.
Edit: Damn I should have done something better for my 19th post.
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Idris Elba has completed all filming
http://screenrant.com/dark-tower-mov...-filming-done/
Thats awesome news!!!!
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Their post production team must be working MAD hours.
The turn around for the totality of all things filming has been impressive.
I'm going to chalk it up to it being relatively SFX lite, and not an indication of the quality.
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I don't think the first movie will be very effects-heavy but I also think they have plenty of time before February.
He acted AND filmed? Golly...talk about a one-man cinematographic army.
A small scope lead-in feels like a breath of fresh air with all the recent blockbusters trying to be Epic in scope from the get-go and not necessarily succeeding.
After all, there will be plenty of time in future sequels for those grandiose vistas and action set-pieces we have come to imagine.
Does anyone know the expected release date or is it still "sometime in 2017" ?
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The release date is still the seventeenth of Feburary 2017, last I heard.
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