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[Ghost_Messiah]

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.

 

[Nether!]

Maybe this will be an interesting movie on its own, but based on the previews alone it doesn't look like much of a Dark Tower adaptation.
Would love to be proved wrong, though - was obsessed with the books when I was a kid.

 

[segasonic]

Of all the book IPs....so with all the history and material of Stephen Kings longest running epic saga that is The Dark Tower
and they only managed to pull 94 minutes worth of material for a movie?

WTF, just how bad did they edit this film?!

It's not based on the books, it's a sequel.

 

[Number45]

https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/887774151376863235

It's true THE DARK TOWER movie runs a clean 95 minutes. Like the first book in the series (224 pages), it's all killer and no filler.

Clearly he's hearing the concerned feedback!

 

[BoogieWoogie]

https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/887774151376863235



Clearly he's hearing the concerned feedback!

A third of the first book is

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the gunslinger banging out a scarred bartender while she nervously tries not say "nineteen" to go insane.

If it's like that though, I'm all for it.

 

[Number45]

I fear the runtime means we're getting the meat of the story and much less of Stephen King, definitely. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but I'd love to see more of the weird and wonderful of the series put to film.

 

[Stormwatch]

So, the "Making of" art book came out today and I did a quick browse through it and there appears to be some content from

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all 7 main books.

It will be interesting to see how they cram that much stuff into such a short movie.

 

[Number45]

The trailer shows things that aren't touched upon in the first book (the

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beams

for example IIRC). Them existing doesn't mean they need to eat up a lot of runtime.

 

[SpaceWolf]

I get the feeling this film is going to bomb horribly, leading to an inevitable Dark Tower Netflix reboot a few years down the line.

 

[andythinkpad]

I get the feeling this film is going to bomb horribly, leading to an inevitable Dark Tower Netflix reboot a few years down the line.

Starring James Franco as Gunslinger.