Looks like Ron Howard's project based on Stephen King's Dark Tower series is getting a little http://www.comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=83523. If you haven't heard about it yet, the plan is to do a combination of movies and a TV series to tell the story. Now it looks like HBO is doing the TV part, which is spectacular news. Last I heard they were talking to Javier Bardem for the role of everybody's favorite Gunslinger.

I'm so happy to hear that this is actually becoming more and more "real". The dark tower was one of my favorite book series in high school, I am curious to see if the tv show movie tv show pattern will work out though

I've heard about this. Very nice.

I'm a relative Dark Tower newbie myself (just finished Wizard and Glass), but I'm already thinking it'd make a great movie as long as they don't screw up.

This is good and bad news.

Good: The Dark Tower series is comming to tv or movie theaters .

Bad: I don't get HBO .

I would love to see a live action shot of what i consider to be the best ending to a series i have ever read.

Amazing. That is all.

Javier Bardem as my Roland ....oh [censored] that is horrible. Maybe with enough make up.....I just don't see him as Roland. Supposedly there is going to a possible game or something as well I saw from the website. But nothing official ......

I have to say I do have mixed feelings on this. For as much as I want to see The Dark Tower in film format, the choices of director and actors plus locations and FX may ruin the experience if not done well. In my mind I always felt that The Dark Tower would be better suited to an animated series. This way you don't have to go with cheap effects du to budget constraints and you can have the characters look exactly the way you want them to look regardless of who the actor is that is playing the part, for example I would pick someone like Edward James Olmos to voice Roland because he has a good voice but doesn't look anywhere near the part.

I'm extremely skeptical. The Dark Tower is probably my favourite fantasy series; I hold it far closer to my heart than Game of Thrones (I loved the adaptation of that though, but GoT is far easier to translate across different mediums).

TDT is...weird. To say the least. I have no idea how it will translate across to TV.

NO SPOILERS PLEASE IN THIS THREAD - some of us haven't finished reading the books yet!


I know, he's totally, totally wrong. I've only seen him in No Country For Old Men, and it's not so much the looks that are wrong (Roland is specifically supposed to resemble Clint Eastwood) as the personality. Bardem failed to engage my attention as a cold-blooded killer about whom you know nothing. The originally rumoured Viggo Mortensen would have been a better choice, because he has the charisma.

This.

Also, I too, have misgivings about the possible castings. Anyone remember The Stand miniseries? Some of the actors that were in that movie were just wrong for their parts. And for that reason, I have never seen the whole series. I just re-read the book.

I don't see this as a good thing, personally. The books are meant to be an imaginative product, with people using their imaginations to fill gaps. Filming them will force them into a straitjacket and turn them into yet another fantasy miniseries. Not only that, but people who aren't Constant King Readers will not understand all the connections between his works, so they'll likely be dumbed out for more shooting scenes.

Then again, if I'd trust any company with the franchise, it'd be HBO.

Hmm its a tough one. I love The Dark Tower. I love Stephen King. I love Ron Howard...

But I'm very skeptical about this... :confused:

Viggo Mortensen would probably have been even better than a 20 years younger Clint Eastwood, a shame he didn't get the part.

I love King's work and the Dark Tower series most of all, and if there's any company I'd trust to do it right it's HBO, but I still have a really bad feeling about this...

I'm a bit annoyed at this. I already have my own personal idea of who the characters are and their stories and would rather a lot of the missin' pieces remain missing. I think this is one series that cannot be translated into film without it mitgatin' it in the process.



Snake kills Dumbledore.



This. The series itself spans over 3000 pages; a lot of stuff will have to be cut out. The animation would also be a nightmare because of all the magic and post-apocalyptic scenery would either force a Lord of the Rings size budget or be sloppy.