"The entire franchise is so inspired by the Western, maybe J.J. should even call the people who made the best Western in recent years, The Coen Brothers."
Brilliant.
the dark tower movie
In my personal and oh so humble opinion, i believe that the Dark Tower movie should be done in couplets save for book seven. There is so much more that you can put into a book than into a movie and that accounts for a lot of the pages. Whereas in the movie version, its all visual and some people may not get all the sublties that arise there. Although i'm not exactly thrilled that they're going to attempt to make the series into a movie-having several doubts on whether or not they can get it right-i would definitely like to see them try. After all, you dont know until you try. Many people thought that Lord of the Rings would never be made right in movie form, but it did pretty well. So i say let's see them try and if they dont get it right, they will definitely know via the throngs of displeased Dark Tower fans the world over.
I agree with some of that. Especially Wizard and Glass probably could be added to Wastelands or Wolves of the Calla. I know what happens to Roland in the past is important, but they could cut down the story and get to the main dreggs.
The Tardis (Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space) duh!
i think a tv series and i mean highend HBO series lasting several seasons would be the best way to do it, 7 movies each at just under 3 hours sounds long but it just couldnt possibly capture everything from the books that a series consisting of hour long episodes could, im thinking: creating a series similar to lost or prison break and that may b what happens since jj abrams (creator of lost) is connected 2 it
if the worlds gonna end then let's get it over with, i got shit to do
The only thing I'm worried about with a series is the possibility of it getting cut before the end.Originally Posted by flaggwalkstheline
The Tardis (Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space) duh!
Yeah, and with HBO they'd cancel it just as it started to get good. My preference is still that it not be made either as a movie or a tv series. It will get fucked up. I'll be sitting right here to say I told you so, when it does.
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I have heard talk that Genndy T. was in talks to do it before JJ Abrams. That gave me a moment of hope, as I am a big fan of the Samurai Jack series! The main character reminds me a lot of Roland, traveling through time, space, with magic, advanced technology and still helping those who need to be freed from the evil ruler.
One thing I like that I think could work for the DT series (or at least parts of it) if it were to be in a similar style as Samurai Jack is the epic scenery shots with just music/sound effects to tell the story. Dialogue is used, but since Jack is mainly alone on his quest, he doesn't need to always explain what he will do, he just does it!
That's my two cents, anyway!
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Yeah, quite interesting idea. I think DT with such a style would hit and touch the people hard.
Roland would have understood.
Any animated version, digital or otherwise, is unnaceptable. And I'm no fan of mini-series', as I see them as being even lower than made-for-tv-movies, but it may be possible with HBO.
I'd prefer to see big-screen film adaptations, but it's going to be really hard if not impossible to do. It's just such a strange and unconventional story, and if the first one isnt a huge success, which it probably wont be, then there wont be any funding for the other six. It will have to be drastically changed/shortened, and the writers are going to have a difficult job of making the changes appropriate. It will need to have a solid R rating, which is another problem (I can only imagine what some mainstream movie goers are going to think when shortly into the first film the "hero" massacres an entire village; men, women, and children). And one of the biggest problems I can think of is what to do with "Wizard and Glass". It would just be too strange to have an entire film in the middle of the series go off on such a tangent, with completely different characters and actors and whatnot. I think that story should be told through appropriatley placed flash-back scenes throughout the other films, or even better, as a prequel kind of like what Peter Jackson is doing with The Hobbit. It's going to need well-known actors, even if they arent the best choices, to attract a mainstream audience in order to guarantee funding.
Basically, this project is going to be so big that they wont have the option of simply catering to the die-hard fans, and as such I think a lot of people on this site will be disappointed. Personally I think that if someone is going to make an epic Stephen King film, it would be better to do The Stand, as it's a slightly more conventional story. The PG made-for-tv series didnt do it justice.
Are they doing test footage?!!
I joined this site just for the soul purpose to ask this and post some pics. A couple of weekends ago me and my girlfriend went to wendover Nevada to gamble. We were leaving the rainbow casino and saw this guy in beat up jeans and boots, but a nice long sleeve shirt on in 101 degree weather. He looked sick and sun burned and then someone came out behind him in a Ka shirt and it hit me. Roland!!! I made my girlfriend follow the van to the gas station and we snapped a few shots of the gunslinger talking to the guy in the Ka shirt. Wendover is close to the bonniville salt flats too. We drove out to them, but it was blocked by cones and there were some trailers. Anybody know anything? I thought they were not doing something until lost was over. Maybe a dollar baby? Test footage. Will post the pics soon.
Not so exciting
Now that I look at the pics, they are not as exciting as I remember.When I saw him in the boots and jeans it made more sense. Oh, well.
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the best would be nothing,cause films cant compare with books,but i cant help myself i would like to see that... so-seven movies...
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and fifth, my apologies for the spam :-)
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