Ghost_Messiah
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As someone who's read The Gunslinger and has read all the other books, not just researched them, I'm telling you straight up that the "kind of a sequel, kind of not" is a genius way of going about this particular adaptation.
And the overall plan is to do a combination of Movies and TV shows to tell the tale. They've already got a decent amount of actors cast for the TV show iirc. But in order for this to happen, this movie does have to be successful enough to justify the expenditure. Which is true for all movie series.
Hmm. Well I will concede that you'd be in a more qualified position than I then. I mean I read The Gunslinger years ago now, and can barely remember it, outside of the awesome descriptive passages and vivid, dreamlike imagery. Perhaps there's creative ethics here that are active then, and maybe they do indeed care. I think the sad thing is I can't see this film being a super success that would green light their road map (thanks for enlightening me to their plans by the way, had no idea there was going to be more beyond this film).
Guess we'll see. It does look pretty fucking cool, with slick action and it's well cast, so maybe it and the roadmap they have has a decent shot. At least I hope so.