• The Dark Tower - Official Trailer
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[QUOTE=BeardyDuck;52181771]trailer also showed [sp]a sign that says pennywise and a statue's hand holding balloons[/sp][/QUOTE] Also has the house from The Shining in a the therapists office
[QUOTE=uber.;52180765]Careful with the spoilers.[/QUOTE] I didn't think it was much of a spoiler since the only people who actually know what that means have read the books. I'm excited for this film though! As much as I projected Viggo Mortensen as Roland when I was reading, I think Idris Elba is a fantastic pick. I think an original Dark Tower story adapted to film rather than a retelling of the books is a much better direction to take.
[QUOTE=God of Ashes;52183418]As much as I projected Viggo Mortensen as Roland when I was reading, I think Idris Elba is a fantastic pick.[/QUOTE] I thought Roland would look more grizzled, Elba doesn't look like the world has fucked him over enough. I though Elba was another gunslinger at first, not Roland himself.
[QUOTE=EskillV2;52186792]I thought Roland would look more grizzled, Elba doesn't look like the world has fucked him over enough. I though Elba was another gunslinger at first, not Roland himself.[/QUOTE] i will never not be sad that Javier Bardem didn't get the part as was originally planned. it would have been so perfect
[QUOTE=Demeschik;52180424]I'm torn. On the one hand, it looks cool and it's good that it is not trying to cram two thousand pages into two hours of film. On the other hand, some changes seem detrimental. Jake's ingress into Roland's world was blood-curdling in the book. Here, he just enters a fucking portal and that's it. No having to fuck an invisible demon while a drug addict is trying to draw a door on the ground.[/QUOTE] I don't know, I'd be skeptical for now. I've never read the novel, but some adaptions are vastly different from their novels, but still great in different ways. Think of Starship Troopers for example. As a bonus here's a strange clip of Jodorowsky using rape as a metaphor for adaption. [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaqhrePM3ik[/media]
Looks cool, and now I have my mom telling me "Read the damn books!" Looks like I'll be reading The Dark Tower series before seeing the film. After all I did cosplay Roland from the hard cover artwork. There is one thing about the credits that bugs me. There's something...oh no. [t]http://i.imgur.com/24QOGzW.png[/t] [B]Oh Fuck-a-monkey it's Goldsman doing the screenplay![/B] First writing for "The Last Knight" and now "The Dark Tower". Granted TLK has "Blackhawk Down" writers to go alongside him, but how does this guy get work after "Batman and Robin" and "A Winter's Tale"? [T]http://i.imgur.com/Oo7L9IZ.png[/T]
Well, Goldsman worked on the [b]story[/b] of Last Knight, whereas he only worked on the [b]screenplay[/b] for Dark Tower. Story writers are the ones responsible for the actual ideas and such that take place in the film. The screenplay writers are simply the ones who pen out the actual scenes you see. Put another way, the story writers are the ones who decided there should be Medieval segments in Last Knight. The screenplay writers are the ones who penned out those Medieval scenes.
i would have preferred him to reload faster than we can see rather than the scene slowing down so we know what he did, and the slow-mo looks really dumb since it'd be impossible for anybody to make that look cool since roland reloads his revolvers one handed anyways which makes no sense to me
[QUOTE=Gmod4ever;52187857]Well, Goldsman worked on the [b]story[/b] of Last Knight, whereas he only worked on the [b]screenplay[/b] for Dark Tower. Story writers are the ones responsible for the actual ideas and such that take place in the film. The screenplay writers are simply the ones who pen out the actual scenes you see. Put another way, the story writers are the ones who decided there should be Medieval segments in Last Knight. The screenplay writers are the ones who penned out those Medieval scenes.[/QUOTE] Not to mention Goldsman and Pinkner probably worked on the script back when Ron Howard was still involved as the director. Jensen and Arcel are shooting with their rewritten script
[QUOTE=The_J_Hat;52188109]Not to mention Goldsman and Pinkner probably worked on the script back when Ron Howard was still involved as the director. Jensen and Arcel are shooting with their rewritten script[/QUOTE] Interesting. I don't know the details of the development history of this film. I'm curious how much of Goldsman's and Pinkner's screenplay is being kept, or if at this point their names are attached more or less for honorary "Hey these people put hard work into it even if it didn't make the cut" reasons.
[QUOTE=Gmod4ever;52188128]Interesting. I don't know the details of the development history of this film. I'm curious how much of Goldsman's and Pinkner's screenplay is being kept, or if at this point their names are attached more or less for honorary "Hey these people put hard work into it even if it didn't make the cut" reasons.[/QUOTE] I don't know that much, apart from Ron Howard being slated to direct with Javier Bardem years ago. I'm only making the Goldsman connection because he and Howard worked together on The DaVinci Code and he wrote for Fringe with Pinkner. Even if their script wasn't used at all, they still probably put in enough work to be credited as screenwriters.
[QUOTE=Demeschik;52180940]This would be book 3, The Wastelands. That sequence of events includes a black bipolar cripple trying to stay alive while taking an invisible stingray demon's cock so that a reformed heroin addict has enough time to draw a door on the ground so that the kid can escape from a house that is literally a monster on the inside in New York to their fairytale world[/QUOTE] I wish this comment wasn't what actually made me go and read the books but it absolutely was. As a matter of fact, I'm reading the third book right now.
[QUOTE=Gmod4ever;52187857]Well, Goldsman worked on the [b]story[/b] of Last Knight, whereas he only worked on the [b]screenplay[/b] for Dark Tower. Story writers are the ones responsible for the actual ideas and such that take place in the film. The screenplay writers are simply the ones who pen out the actual scenes you see. Put another way, the story writers are the ones who decided there should be Medieval segments in Last Knight. The screenplay writers are the ones who penned out those Medieval scenes.[/QUOTE] Well this has been insightful. Now I'm back to being optimistic for both films.
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