8:14 pm - 08/20/2012
Warner Bros. has officially passed on developing a multi-tiered adaptation of Stephen King's epic The Dark Tower series, Variety reports. It was announced eariler this year that the studio might tackle the massive project after Universal Pictures themselves ended up passing on it last summer.
The books weave the saga of Roland Deschain, the Gunslinger and the adaptation was to be developed as a big-screen trilogy and tie-in television series featuring the same cast.
Ron Howard was attached to the project to direct at least the first part of the series and would have overseen the rest of the massive adaptation. Most recently, Russell Crowe was said to have been interested in the role of the Gunslinger with Akiva Goldsman and Mark Verheiden tackling the writing duties.
Although the property could still theoretically move forward if another studio is interested in picking it up, the current state of affairs appears to be that The Dark Tower, at least in this iteration, is on indefinite hold.
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Hate to say it but this is probably for the best. The format of movie-show-movie-show-movie is just asking for trouble IMO.
The Dark Tower Falls at Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. has officially passed on developing a multi-tiered adaptation of Stephen King's epic The Dark Tower series, Variety reports. It was announced eariler this year that the studio might tackle the massive project after Universal Pictures themselves ended up passing on it last summer.
The books weave the saga of Roland Deschain, the Gunslinger and the adaptation was to be developed as a big-screen trilogy and tie-in television series featuring the same cast.
Ron Howard was attached to the project to direct at least the first part of the series and would have overseen the rest of the massive adaptation. Most recently, Russell Crowe was said to have been interested in the role of the Gunslinger with Akiva Goldsman and Mark Verheiden tackling the writing duties.
Although the property could still theoretically move forward if another studio is interested in picking it up, the current state of affairs appears to be that The Dark Tower, at least in this iteration, is on indefinite hold.
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Hate to say it but this is probably for the best. The format of movie-show-movie-show-movie is just asking for trouble IMO.
I'm like
This is what people won't shut up about?
This?
FOR REAL?
I might try again.
Edited at 2012-08-21 02:14 am (UTC)
The first few I thought were REALLY good. He wrote the last ones in the 90s after a really long writer's block. I feel like he just felt like he HAD to finish it so he just printed a bunch of crap to be able to say it's done.
SABRIEL
SABRIEL SABRIEL SABRIEL
I guess the whole Old Kingdom Trilogy, but I only really care about Sabriel.
I do think in the right hands that this could make a fantastic adaptation, but only in the right hands. And I'm not quite sure whose hands those are. JJ Abrams would've been closest, but I'm still not sure he would have gotten it completely right.
tl;dr: This is how I feel:
That is all I have to say about this.
(Yeah, I never finished the first book. Shrug.)