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THE DARK TOWER will be made into a movie

Kai "the spy" said:
Anyway, I was using Valerian as an example of a movie I liked despite bad reviews. I could just as well name movies like Legend of Tarzan, Warcraft, Batman v Superman, Zoolander 2, or a number of others.
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All shit as well. I think the problem's you.
 
'The Dark Tower' TV Series Sets 'Walking Dead' Grad as Showrunner
As the long-awaited feature film take on The Dark Tower is poised to open at the box office, the potential TV series is taking a big step forward.

Glen Mazzara (The Walking Dead) has been tapped to serve as showrunner on the TV adaptation of the ambitious Stephen King series. The TV take, envisioned as a straight-to-series project, is currently in its early stages and tapping a showrunner is the key first step. A network is not yet attached. Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that it is being eyed for a short-order (between 10 and 13 episodes) and a home on cable or streaming outlets by producers Media Rights Capital and Sony Pictures Television. Production is eyed to begin in 2018, though nothing is locked in given all the variables.

"I’ve been a Stephen King fan for decades and the opportunity to adapt The Dark Tower as a TV series is a great honor," Mazzara tells THR. "The events of The Gunslinger, Wizard & Glass, The Wind Through the Keyhole, and other tales need a long format to capture the complexity of Roland's coming of age — how he became the Gunslinger, how Walter became the Man in Black, and how their rivalry cost Roland everything and everyone he ever loved. I could not be more excited to tell this story. It feels like being given the key to a treasure chest. And oh yeah, we’ll have billy-bumblers!"
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So I wonder if the bad reviews end up making the movie a flop, and the TV series is a huge hit with rave reviews, could we see it continue without the movies?
IGN gave it a 5/10, and called it a "thoroughly average adaptation of some truly incredible source material".
 
It's funny, these reviews just confirm what seemed to be the case to me since the first trailers, and yet, I still am curious to see it and have been thinking of checking it out.
 
Kai "the spy" said:
I don't give a rat's ass about reviews anymore. All too often have I ended up enjoying movies with bad reviews, or vice versa. Just recently again, with Valerian.
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Hence me saying I will check it out later and give it a shot. I said I wasn't hopeful, I didn't I judged it. ;)
But, a a life long fan of The Dark Tower (re-reading it as we speak), there is hardly anything in this trailer that feels like the novels. Not for me anyway. Now, reviewers who are fans of the novels and reviewers who have never read the novels are all agreeing it's not good. That makes me hesitant. Again, not saying it's shit. But hesitant.
 
Dark Tower....like Dune, nobody will ever make it really well!
Those directors and such that could have done it are gone!
 
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I don't have a horse in this race as I haven't read the books and the trailers have left me indifferent (Elba is the only appeal for me), but Vox has a different perspective on the film: If you view the film as a new Stephen King story and not an adaptation of a known story, it's an enjoyable film.
 
I want to see it, but I fear it's going to be like Ghost in the Shell, an OK movie, but not showing me anything I haven't already seen.

There is so much material in The Dark Tower, that each novel could be many seasons of 10 episodes in a series. Then again, for me it would be watching something I'm already familiar with, and it wouldn't be that interesting. It would need something new.
 
Emh said:
I don't have a horse in this race as I haven't read the books and the trailers have left me indifferent (Elba is the only appeal for me), but Vox has a different perspective on the film: If you view the film as a new Stephen King story and not an adaptation of a known story, it's an enjoyable film.
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I saw the Vox review and found it an interesting take, but as a reader and lover of the books (even while acknowledging they have flaws), non-persuasive.
 
My question is how will someone who has never read the books like it... My wife is a huge fan of the books, but I've never even tried to read them or really even know what they are about...
 
My question is how will someone who has never read the books like it... My wife is a huge fan of the books, but I've never even tried to read them or really even know what they are about...
 
marillion said:
My question is how will someone who has never read the books like it... My wife is a huge fan of the books, but I've never even tried to read them or really even know what they are about...
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I think you have a better chance of enjoying it then she will as you can just appreciate it for what it is and not be disappointed by what has changed or been omitted. It sounds like it's meant to try to loosely encapsulate and interpret the Dark Tower saga into an easy-to-digest movie suited for mass consumption. The Vox article above is trying to make an argument for taking it on its own terms which I agree is the best approach to take to enjoy it.

Ridcully said:
Dark Tower....like Dune, nobody will ever make it really well!
Those directors and such that could have done are gone!
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Speaking of Dune, especially with the first book I always kind of imagined what Jodorowsky might've down with the material. It reminds me of El Topo but it's been so long since I watched a grainy copy of that movie. I've been thinking about streaming it again as I barely remember it but I see there's nice HD copies available now.
 
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^Lots of interesting thing I bet!

Anyways have read the books and all that, normally I don't really get worked up over movies deviating from the books they where based on!

As they are two different medias, but this movie did not grip me as something I wanted to see.
I am off to see Valerian instead.
Those comics I have read since I was a kid in the 70's....wonderful universe!
 
Mr. Adventure said:
I think you have a better chance of enjoying it then she will as you can just appreciate it for what it is and not be disappointed by what has changed or been omitted. It sounds like it's meant to try to loosely encapsulate and interpret the Dark Tower saga into an easy-to-digest movie suited for mass consumption. The Vox article above is trying to make an argument for taking it on its own terms which I agree is the best approach to take to enjoy it.


Speaking of Dune, especially with the first book I always kind of imagined what Jodorowsky might've down with the material. It reminds me of El Topo but it's been so long since I watched a grainy copy of that movie. I've been thinking about streaming it again as I barely remember it but I see there's nice HD copies available now.
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I think you're probably right... And that is also how I approached the original Dune.. i hadn't read any of the books at that point and while the movie was a bit plodding for my young mind (Damn you David Lynch!), I believe I enjoyed it a hell of a lot more than I would have had I been familiar with the written material.
 
Saw "The Dark Tower:"

A touching fable telling us that we can triumph over darkness as long as we believe in our dreams and can get our hands on an endless number of bullets.

"FIve Stars!" - the NRA.
 
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