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raasco

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maniacalpha1-1 said:
http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2011/07/19/dark-tower-universal-passes-ron-howard/

A big F U to Dark Tower fans. To be honest, I'm more excited about Dark Tower than I was Harry Potter and Lord of The Rings coming to movies 10 years ago.

Plus, in one of the later books there's a scene with Stephen King himself, if it takes 20 more years to get this done it may not be possible for him to play himself.
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It's a lot more than one scene that he's in. His acting sucks, give it to someone good.

A well produced HBO series would be about the only thing to give these books justification imo.
 
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maniacalpha1-1

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For some reason the title of the thread will not edit even though supposedly the function allows it. Anyway, some of you who were happy not to see it go through missed that it's back on track.
 
ViperXX

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I still haven't finished reading this series. I read the first 3 and Wizard and Glass and that's where I left off. I'd have to start over and read it from start to finish.
 
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alent1234

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I read all the books and it will only work as a HBO special. No way can you even cover it all in 3 movies
 
MrChad

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cKGunslinger said:
I kinda agree with this now. They can't do it right - so why try.

I still think it could possibly work as a heavily-stylized anime series..
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Yeah I liked the series but I don't think this is going to end well. Stephen King's short stories work well as movies, but his novels usually translate to the screen terribly.
 
Gunslinger08

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I'm with most people on this. I'll watch it, but I'm sure it won't be good. The adaptation could be a 20+ hour mini-series and still miss some important stuff.
 
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maniacalpha1-1

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zinfamous said:
as well they should.


LoTR films >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> LoTR novels.

no contest.
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I speak more of what they cut and didn't show, than of what they changed.

Though the elves coming to Helm's Deep and Saruman dying early were kind of shocking.
 
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cKGunslinger said:
I kinda agree with this now. They can't do it right - so why try.

I still think it could possibly work as a heavily-stylized anime series..
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Just use the same styling they used in the Marvel comics. That was good. And not anime.

They really blew any chance of this being a good movie by not getting Guillermo Del Torro to direct it. He's the only director with the style I feel could do it justice past some as of yet unknown guy.
 
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alent1234

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half of LOTR was a bore fest. the songs. and half of ROTK where frodo is walking around mordor could have been cut down
 
SP33Demon

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Rumor has it that S.King is holding up the movie production since he won't sign off on Justin Bieber as Roland.
 
Fritzo

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Universal doesn't want to make any movies that won't translate well into theme park attractions.
 
Ns1

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dark tower dead again.

Warner Bros took the easy out and has passed on The Dark Tower, the ambitious multi-platform adaptation of Stephen King’s novel series. After getting an overhauled script from Oscar winning scribe Akiva Goldsman, the studio just balked on the project that Ron Howard wants to direct with Brian Grazer, Goldsman and King producing, and with their A Beautiful Mind star Russell Crowe being eyed to play the gunman Roland Deschain. Warner Bros follows Universal, which also bailed on making the project.

It’s something of an odd move for Warner Bros, given all the talk out there that with Harry Potter and the Chris Nolan-directed Batman movies over, the studio badly needs some franchise blood and keeps swinging and missing with its attempts to mint franchises out of its DC Comics stable of characters like Green Lantern and Jonah Hex. I just interviewed the author; King knows his way around a good story, and here is how he described what is waiting for whoever steps up to fund this movie: “The Dark Tower, to me, and I’m not unbiased because I’m the writer on this thing, but to me it looks like gold on the ground waiting to be picked up.” You need guts to find gold in this precarious time in the film business, and Warner Bros ultimately didn’t show any here. Peter Jackson is lucky that Bob Shaye ran New Line when he was down to his last chance to get The Lord Of The Rings made. If he was out pitching that movie today, I doubt that Jackson would have been able to persuade Warner Bros to say yes to what became a billion dollar franchise. I hope that Howard and his posse reload and try again, but this is a major setback for them.
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techs

techs

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Stephen King looks more and more like Stephen Hawking every day.
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