Stephen King's THE DARK TOWER

[Batty]

Re: The Dark Tower Trilogy & Series

I did a search but didn't see it. Maybe I should have started a poll.

 

[Kuzeh]

Re: Stephan King's THE DARK TOWER

Who's this Stephan King you talk about?...

 

[Lookin4Precious]

Re: Stephan King's THE DARK TOWER

Who's this Stephan King you talk about?...

haha! Oops!

 

[cerealkeller]

VERY interested in seeing how this develops, but I am hesitant. Just not the people I want at all behind a project of this magnitude. I like Ron Howard as a director, but not enough to handle one of my favorite stories ever told. And Akiva Goldsman is so hit and miss as a screenwriter. I love his script for a Beautiful Mind BUT he also gave us the travesties of Batman Forever, Batman & Robin and Lost in Space. I dont see him handling the characters of Roland, Eddie, Jake and Suzanna correct. Please prove me wrong.
As far as casting goes, man I will never picture anyone playing Roland besides Clint Eastwood. He is Roland to me and who I see in my head while reading the books.

 

[shipwreck82]

I always wanted eastwood to play roland but it just took too damn long for them to get this project in gear.

 

[TheObsoleteMan]

I'm really curious how this will translate. I love the books, but there are parts that while I was reading them I was thinking "man, this could come off very silly on film." I just hope they do Father Callahan's story justice.

 

[devilof76]

For some reason, I've never pictured Roland as Eastwood.

 

[Morbach]

never read the books but depending on how good this is I might have to read them.

 

[Darth Waller]

Brian Grazer: We're going to do ['The Dark Tower'] with HBO. We'll do the TV with HBO, and we'll do the movie with… to be determined. We'll do it right.

https://geektyrant.com/news/2011/10...bo.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

 

[TheObsoleteMan]

They should just stick with the HBO series, and forget feature films. There's no way you can do it properly without either truncating the hell out of the story or doing a huge Harry Potter style run of films, and that's definitely not going to happen.

 

[Michael Crawford]

I can easily see the first book as a film, and moving on to use a tv series to tell the rest of the story.

I think a perfect Roland would be Timothy Olyphant, although Viggo Mortensen might work as well.

 

[Darth Waller]

It looks like this may finally be happening. And with Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey!

The Dark Tower: Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey cast in Stephen King movie | EW.com

 

[DinoDB1975]

Wow, only took almost five years since the last post!

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

It looks like this may finally be happening. And with Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey!

The Dark Tower: Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey cast in Stephen King movie | EW.com

I can see McConaughey as Roland.

Wow, only took almost five years since the last post!

 

[EVILFACE]

I don't like that casting for Roland at all.

 

[rushmore223]

I don't like that casting for Roland at all.

I agree, MM doesn't fit the Roland I imagined when reading the books.

 

[abake]

Uhm... McConaughey is not Roland...
Idris Elba is Roland.

 

[YoNoSe]

Uhm... McConaughey is not Roland...
Idris Elba is Roland.

I like them both but it's like this movie is being developed by Lucy Van Pelt. I'll believe it when I see it.

 

[rushmore223]

Uhm... McConaughey is not Roland...
Idris Elba is Roland.

Oh. Hmmmm.. I guess I'll judge when I see it.

Next thing you know, someone will cast Christian Bale as Moses.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Idris Elba is Roland.

Well, the resemblance is uncanny