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

Posted by Soulskill on from the as-long-as-there-are-no-creepy-clowns dept.

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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  1. Re:Just what we needed by MozeeToby · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If it proves popular I can't wait to see people's reaction to the ending (those that aren't familiar with it). It'll make everyone's disappointment in the Lost and Battlestar Galactica finales look like indifference. I know people who are still pissed off about everything that happens after the "don't read past this point" warning. Personally, I laughed out loud at the ending since it basically came down to with thing: "Ka is a wheel bitches! Deal with it."

  2. the creative team is middle of the road by circletimessquare · · Score: 3, Interesting

    we need wacky and out there for this material

    ron howard: apollo 13, a beautiful mind, the davinci code

    akiva goldsman: lost in space, batman & robin, i robot

    eh

    they are excellent filmmakers and producers and writers with a spectacular run of success with solid well-done pop fare and are well-regarded and appreciated

    but they have strolled into psychedelic territory here

    a story like the dark tower needs a stanley kubrick, a david lynch, a martin scorsese, maybe even a tim burton: a master of the theatre of the macabre and absurd

    not these middlebrow crowd pleasing hollywood mainstream guys

    for something like the dark tower, we want week old road kill roasted over an oil drum fire by a paranoid schizophrenic hobo. we don't want olive garden

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