Film adaptation of Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" is apparently a disaster - Sensationalist Headlines

[QUOTE=Ragekipz;52536149]I knew it would be like that the momment I saw how much they were trying to cover in a single movie. [editline]3rd August 2017[/editline] The only problem I had with Elba was that the initial dynamic (which is most of the plot of the second book) between her and Roland woudn't work if Roland was black.[/QUOTE] Eh, she still could have called him an Uncle Tom for tangling with a whitey, or a race traitor. A competent screenwriter would have figured it out, sadly, this moving didn't have one

[QUOTE=Demeschik;52536249]Eh, she still could have called him an Uncle Tom for tangling with a whitey, or a race traitor. A competent screenwriter would have figured it out, sadly, this moving didn't have one[/QUOTE] Okay, that's harsh. Just because the writers are also responsible for Amazing Spider-Man 2, Batman and Robin, the first two Dan Brown movies and okay, never mind.

Glen Mazzara is going to be showrunner for the television series. Stephen King's been spending years and years hoping for his books to get justice only to be punched in the face and then balls. For those unaware, Glenn Mazzara was the showrunner for Walking Dead S2 - S3.

[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;52536805]Stephen King likely has a curse, every adaptation that he has been involved with has been a big turd, while those where he has no involvement other than licensing it has been an incredible phenomenon[/QUOTE] It's honestly sad. King was so sure this series would be a hit, he wanted it to be a tv show possibly on HBO and rival the likes of GoT/Westworld. Instead he in the end had to settle for Sony making it a film. King likely knows if this flops and it looks like it probably will, no one will ever pick it up again in his life time and he's had his shot.

Why they never turned this into a TV show in the first place is beyond me. The problem with Dark Tower is that the first book is kinda meh. It's not bad by any stretch but it's for most people the weakest link in the series. I mean you could even start with the fourth book and it wouldn't hurt the narrative.

[QUOTE=SpaceGhost;52534905]No surprise, they turned The Mist into a TV show, and apparently after 6 episodes, not a single monster and virtually no mention of arrowhead like the movie, just tons of drama between people and nothing else.[/QUOTE] Well you heard wrong because Arrowhead gets hinted at within the very first scene and there's already been one extremely weird monster. There's multiple direct references to the book and movie.

Saw it coming a mile away, it looked so goddamn meh from the trailers.

Sucks to hear as a massive fan of the Tower. Still gonna see it because I've waited years for this.

[QUOTE=TAU!;52535678]Can Hollywood [i]please[/i] stop trying to cash in on every book franchise? At some point they'll have to understand that not everything needs a film adaptation.[/QUOTE] I disagree. Literally the worst possible outcome is that the film is bad and you won't watch it, nobody loses anything (except Sony). The best outcome is the next LotR.

Much like the Emoji Movie, RT is having a little fun with its consensus. [img]http://i.imgur.com/gDyTJog.png[/img]

Aw man, I saw the trailer for this while waiting for Spider-Man Homecoming to start and it was the only one that really interested me Damn it.

[QUOTE]For over a decade, some of Hollywood's most successful storytellers have wanted to turn Stephen King's [B][U]eight-book Dark Tower saga[/U][/B] into movies. Few, presumably, started out with the idea that the best way to wrangle this mountain of plot was to write a new sequel to it. That's roughly what Danish director Nikolaj Arcel offers in The Dark Tower, weaving elements from the published books into a new premise suggested by the series' end and paring the whole mythology down enough to [B][U]fit into a mere hour and a half[/U][/B]. Recent industry gossip described a troubled shoot and early edits that were so confusing to test audiences they prompted much postproduction tinkering by producers and studio execs. That's tough to believe when looking at the finished product, a save-the-multiverse sci-fi fantasy that is, if anything, too easily digested.[/QUOTE] Damn, you have eight books of material and all you could make is a 95 minute film, which probably even includes the credits. Hollywood desperately needs better writers.

It'd be much better if it was a multi season series and actually faithful to the source material. Even if it was faithfully adapted, it wouldn't fit into an hour and a half. Just cast Scott Eastwood as Roland and be done with it.