Here's the link:
http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/...u-series-order
John
Here's the link:
http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/...u-series-order
John
oh ok under the Oracle sorry still finding my way around and leaving more trash for people to clean up along the way. ***Please erase this thread****
Looking For
Dark Tower III through VII LSOE S/L or AE #1208
Trade 1st/1st
The Dead Zone
Danse Macabre
Cujo
Carrie
Firestarter
Skeleton Crew
Night Shift
No punishment. Thanks for mentioning it.Originally Posted by Citizen of Lud
I'll merge it in a bit.
Slacker!!! LOL LOLNo punishment. Thanks for mentioning it.
I'll merge it in a bit.
28 in 23 (?)!!!!
63 in '23!!!!!!!!!!
My Collection: https://www.thedarktower.org/palaver...ion-Merlin1958
The Houston Astros cheated Major League Baseball from 2017-18!!!! Is that how we teach our kids to play the game now?????
I've got Hulu and just hope this one isn't going to be Web Only like Haven...
I do think it would be best - if they choose to spin it into a series - to start with Season 1 as the book itself and then move on to other time periods and other adjustments, like Quantum Leap. I definitely agree that the Warehouse13 format would give this potentially limitless possibilities. Just look at how much spawned from The Dead Zone and Haven by simply taking the awesomeness of King's story and then running with it. I would LOVE to see this take on that form!
Haven isn't web-only -- it's on SyFy.
Author of The Road to the Dark Tower, Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences and The Dark Tower Companion. Co-editor with Stephen King of the anthology Flight or Fright.
I'd rather it be like The Killing where it's one continuous arc, then the next season is a new continuous arc, and so forth.
I love Quantum, but I wouldn't want Jake going on a new adventure every episode.
"That which you think, becomes your world" Matheson
I mean when it hits Hulu, Hulu only has it streaming as web-only and not available to view from a PS3 or other streaming device. So - having no cable - I can only watch it on my TV by plugging my computer into it.
I see. I use a Chromecast device ($35) to cast from my iPad or desktop to my TV.
Author of The Road to the Dark Tower, Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences and The Dark Tower Companion. Co-editor with Stephen King of the anthology Flight or Fright.
James Franco on 11/22.63:
http://www.vice.com/read/stephen-kin...-in-112263-148
Stephen King’s recent book, 11/22/63, is about a high school teacher who travels through a time portal in the pantry of a greasy-spoon diner to the late 50s in order to kill Lee Harvey Oswald and prevent JFK’s assassination. King's use of time travel in 11/22/63 is more than just a plot device. The way that the novel's English teacher protagonist (a job that King had before he wrote his first book, Carrie), travels back from the 2000s to 1958 is a metaphor for King’s ability to revisit the same genres and time periods without ever getting stale.
I wanted the rights to the book, but J. J. Abrams has them and is adapting the novel into an online miniseries. I love J. J. Abrams as much as the next person (though I bet there are some pretty ardent Lost fans that I’ll never match in fervor), but come on. That guy gets to do everything.
I’ve been accused of being ubiquitous, of occupying too much cultural ground, of being a pop culture hog, like a guest at a wedding who sticks his dirty fingers in every cake and pie. Maybe that’s all true. But Abrams has had a few TV series. He took on Star Trek, and is now doing my personal favorite, Star Wars. He co-authored a meta-novel called S., which involves a master narrative that serves as the basis for a meta-narrative told though handwritten margin notes between a grad student and an undergraduate student. Yes, he has the track record and know-how, so I understand how he got the rights to 11/22/63, but still, why do I get so much flack for doing it all? I ain’t the only one.
My favorite King material deals with his home state of Maine, the 1950s, madness, or all these things at once—books like It, Different Seasons (which contains the stories “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption,” “Apt Pupil,” and “The Body,” which were all adapted into movies), Carrie, The Shining, and 11/22/63. These books do what horror and science fiction do best: They talk about who we are as humans, how we deal with each other, and our psychology, through the horror genre, in order to get at something even more true. Stories like “The Body” and “Apt Pupil” don’t even have any fantastical elements, but the death and violence at their centers bring out the darker subtexts of their coming-of-age plots.
It uses a mad clown in order to get at the deep social forces among people living in in close proximity to one another. Carrie and The Shining are brilliant manifestations of bullying and alcoholism with the added complexity of the supernatural. The beauty of such allegories is that they are supported by their own rules—the fantasy worlds work whether you read into them or not. They don’t depend on the allegorical level.
11/22/63 does everything King is good at and more. His time-travel premise allows him to go back to one of his best eras for subject matter: the 1950s. Of course he doesn’t need his characters to time-travel in order to write about the 50s. He could just set his story in the past, as he has done many times before, but the time-travel aspect allows us to go on the ride with King the writer as he set-designs the past. In stories like “The Body” and It, King does the same period scene-setting, but he isn’t able to call attention to it in a meta way like he does in 11/22/63. In the books that simply take place in the past, King can give us a plethora of details: the duck’s-ass haircuts, the slang, the old cars like Sunbeams and Chryslers, the dated racism—but he can’t underline them with the characters’ reactions as he does with his time traveler in 11/22/63.
When the school teacher goes back to 1958, he can marvel at the ease that everyone uses the terms “Jewed” and “Gypped”; he can savor the taste of milk, lobster, and beef compared with their adulterated equivalents in the 2000s; he can be surprised at the lack of all the online amenities that he’s used to and marvel at his own dependence on the electronic universe.
King is one of our greatest storytellers, and by incorporating time travel into 11/22/63, he is able to go back to one of his many creative wells and again find something original. I’m sure J. J. Abrams, as the torchbearer for the Trekkies and now the Lucas legacy, will be the perfect shepherd for King at his best.
"Gypped" is a bad word?
Franco can do the High School Musical spin off.
It's a word derived from "Gypsy's" so, technically considered "racist". If you dealt with, Gypsy's and got ripped off you were, "Gypped".
28 in 23 (?)!!!!
63 in '23!!!!!!!!!!
My Collection: https://www.thedarktower.org/palaver...ion-Merlin1958
The Houston Astros cheated Major League Baseball from 2017-18!!!! Is that how we teach our kids to play the game now?????
It's a word derived from "Gypsy's" so, technically considered "racist". If you dealt with, Gypsy's and got ripped off you were, "Gypped".
Weird I did not know that it was a racist word.
It's a word derived from "Gypsy's" so, technically considered "racist". If you dealt with, Gypsy's and got ripped off you were, "Gypped".
Weird I did not know that it was a racist word.
Goes back before my time, but I have heard it used many times in N.Y. In fact I think it originated in Europe. In today's "PC" world what was considered "slang" 50 years ago is now "Racist".
28 in 23 (?)!!!!
63 in '23!!!!!!!!!!
My Collection: https://www.thedarktower.org/palaver...ion-Merlin1958
The Houston Astros cheated Major League Baseball from 2017-18!!!! Is that how we teach our kids to play the game now?????
James Franco is about to go streaming. The Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe-winning “Interview” star has been cast as the lead in Hulu’s original series “11/22/63,” adapted from Stephen King‘s 2011 bestseller of the same name.
Franco, who also will serve as a producer on the nine-hour miniseries, will play the lead role of Epping in the time-travel Kennedy assassination thriller from J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Prods. and Warner Bros. TV.
>>> Source
Author of The Road to the Dark Tower, Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences and The Dark Tower Companion. Co-editor with Stephen King of the anthology Flight or Fright.
WOW... that is good casting.
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I disagree. I think Franco is a complete acting dud...not happy with this news.
WOW... that is good casting.
NReally? Man he has had some great movies... I really like him. Did you see him in Spring Breakers? 124 Hours? I am a fan and am happy with this news. Sorry mateI disagree. I think Franco is a complete acting dud...not happy with this news.
WOW... that is good casting.
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I'm a bit of a dud as well when keeping up with entertainment news...I haven't heard of either of those movies but I did not like him in Spiderman, Apes, Triston (and something), Pineapple Express, This is the End, and one or two others...Not a fan. His acting feels flat to me.
Edit: and Oz.
Really? Man he has had some great movies... I really like him. Did you see him in Spring Breakers? 124 Hours? I am a fan and am happy with this news. Sorry mate
Excellent news. I'm so excited for this!
Yea, I'm not a big fan of Franco's either. But of course I'll see it.
Franco as Jake? I don't see it. I think he's a better actor than his recent string of comedies make him out to be, but just don't see him as being right for the role.
Only because it's got your man in it.
A NEW GAME BEGINS
My main worry is that JJ Abram is everywhere. Isnt he supposed to do not simply screw up Star Wars 7 for a start? Shouldnt he be focused on it?
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I like it! Can't wait to see this!
I like Franco a lot and the book was amazing, so this should be good. Too bad it's on Hulu, because it's terrible. I had a free three-month trial and I canceled it after two days. What crappy service. Even with a paid subscription you still get ads and their player and interface isn't as robust as Netflix's.
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