Fievel wrote:Casting is definitely a huge concern.
Getting Jake to not age much across 7 books' worth of material is another.
Not "softening" the material is a huge hope. I hope their product is as deliciously fucked up as the source material.
I'm curious to know the final format. They're saying film now, but will it end up at theaters? A series on cable?
I'm also curious to see how they handle Stephen King being in the story. Will they make a wink and a nod to the fact that this will be a movie version of the book? Will King play himself?
Fievel wrote:I'm also curious to see how they handle [spoiler]Stephen King being in the story. Will they make a wink and a nod to the fact that this will be a movie version of the book? Will King play himself?
Chairman Kaga wrote:I agree with Moo.
I actually hope they put this into a nice meticulous development phase like weta's amp up to LOTR.
Cpt Kirks 2pay wrote:Colonel Lugz seriously wants Shia Le Bouf to play Roland. Can you farking BELIEVE that? What are your thoughts on this?
travis-dane wrote:Cpt Kirks 2pay wrote:Colonel Lugz seriously wants Shia Le Bouf to play Roland. Can you farking BELIEVE that? What are your thoughts on this?
Thats why he has left the ZONE!
Fievel wrote:So Lugz was ALL of the alts in the Shia thread?
Shia might.... MIGHT work as Eddie.
Fievel wrote:Not much news, but since there wasn't a movie thread yet....
J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof Will Work On ‘Dark Tower’ After ‘Lost’ Is Over“Damon Lindelof and I talked to Mr. King,” Abrams told IGN while promoting the upcoming “Star Trek” film. “We got the rights for ['Dark Tower'] as a film. Damon is obviously still on ‘Lost’ and we’ve been working on ‘Star Trek’ together. As soon as ‘Lost’ is done, hopefully we’ll begin tackling that.”
Sad to see Lost end next year, but I'm pretty stoked to see what these guys do with the DT series.
Ribbons wrote:Hope you don't mind, Fievel
travis-dane wrote:Every book should be a 13 episode long season. Just not the first one, that could be a two part pilot movie to set things up.
Nachokoolaid wrote:I'm not sold on Shia for Eddie. But it could be worse, I suppose.
But who do you want to see for Roland? That's the big question.
What about Odetta? Taraji P. Henson will probably get some love at this point in her career now.
And a really courageous/creative director would film all the scenes involving Jake at the same time so it would appear on film that he didn't age. That's what I would do.
“Having seen Zack go through what he went through on ‘Watchmen’ in terms of saying of where can I digress from the material I just get headaches thinking about changing anything,” Lindelof told MTV News. “It was the defining literary tale of my young adulthood into adulthood.”
Lindelof is keenly aware of how that level of attachment can affect his approach to the project. “My reverence for Stephen King is now getting in the way of what any good writer would do first when they’re adapting a book, which is take creative license in changing stuff,” he explained.
travis-dane wrote:Hugo Weaving for Blane's voice.
Liev Schreiber for Randall Flagg.
Nachokoolaid wrote:I would have said Josh Brolin for Roland, but now that he's Jonah Hex, I doubt that's a possibility.
RaulMonkey wrote:Word. Nacho mentioned Brolin earlier, but it was at the bottom of the first page, so easily missed.Nachokoolaid wrote:I would have said Josh Brolin for Roland, but now that he's Jonah Hex, I doubt that's a possibility.
Hopefully after Bale takes on John Connor in addition to Batman in a couple of weeks, audiences and studios will be primed for a single star tackling multiple icons on the big screen. Brolin's the best choice for Roland I've heard so far. Good work, gents.
Fawst wrote:Just thinking of the magic tricks that Abrams and co. could play with this...
So, what if they filmed completely out of sequence, and the later books are shot first with a young Jake, then the early books are shot with him being older? That could put an interesting spin on the "twist" with his character. It would kind of blow my mind to be watching a film series where one of the main characters reverses age over the course of the series.
Fievel wrote:I like Nolte's voice for Roland, but he'd need dark hair.
...and would probably have to clean up a little.
Fievel wrote:I saw somewhere the suggestion of Nick Nolte for Roland.
I like Nolte's voice for Roland, but he'd need dark hair.
...and would probably have to clean up a little.
TheBaxter wrote:Fievel wrote:I saw somewhere the suggestion of Nick Nolte for Roland.
I like Nolte's voice for Roland, but he'd need dark hair.
...and would probably have to clean up a little.
if nick nolte plays roland, then eddie HAS to be played by eddie murphy.
then they can call it 48 (Dark) Towers.
klinteastwood wrote:who would play Stephen King in the films???
I know!
Damon Lindelof wrote:You'll be hard-pressed to find a huger fan of The Dark Tower than me, but that's probably the reason that I shouldn't be the one to adapt it. After working six years on Lost, the last thing I want to do is spend the next seven years adapting one of my favorite books of all time. I'm such a massive Stephen King fan that I'm terrified of screwing it up.
I'd do anything to see those movies written by someone else. My guess is they will get made because they're so incredible. But not by me.
Ha ha ha! You're so studly Devin Fatassi! The Dark Tower is what you leave in the toilet after eating a box of Krispy Kremes! Ha ha ha obesity!
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