King's Dark Tower Series To Be Adapted For Film, TV

Kozz writes "Universal Pictures and NBC Universal Television Entertainment have closed a deal to turn Stephen King's mammoth novel series The Dark Tower into a feature film trilogy and a network TV series, both of which will be creatively steered by the Oscar-winning team behind A Beautiful Mind and The Da Vinci Code. 'The plan is to start with the feature film, and then create a bridge to the second feature with a season of TV episodes. That means the feature cast — and the big star who’ll play Deschain — also has to appear in the TV series before returning to the second film. After that sequel is done, the TV series picks up again, this time focusing on Deschain as a young gunslinger.'"

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Re:the last two books

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The last two books are going to be kind of tough to put on the big or small screen...

Not compared to making a movie of Running Man that was close to the story! That's one movie that won't be made in my lifetime, given [rot13 spoiler="ending"]Gur ureb syvrf na nvecynar vagb n fxlfpencre[/rot13].

I've thought that every movie ever made from a King book has been crap, far worse than the normal adaptation decay, but maybe that's just me.