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Lost Producer Takes a Trip to King's 'Dark Tower'
Wednesday, September 3, 2008


By: MrDisgusting
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AMC discovered that "Star Trek" and "Lost" Producer Damon Lindelof is working on bringing Stephen King's DARK TOWER to life. "The Dark Tower is to me every bit as daunting an adaptation as the Lord of the Rings trilogy must have been for Peter Jackson, except we've got seven books we're looking at. And the idea of doing that at the same time Carlton and I are bringing Lost to a close is simply not viable. There are always Dark Tower conversations, but the figuring out of what this will look like as a movie has not begun. If The Dark Tower were in the right hands, I would love to see seven movies executed just right. But you have to get people to see the first one to get them to come and see the second one." Click here for the full interview.



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mbuckingham
11:44am, September 3, 2008

sounds really interesting


TheDeadMayTasteBad
11:47am, September 3, 2008

I'll have to say is: Good luck to whoever is going to try to bring them to the big screen, you're going to need it.


Thommy Razor
12:56pm, September 3, 2008

I have a dreadful vision of Oy becoming the next CGI laden Jar Jar Binks. And that makes me wanna cry. I'm afraid of these movies, movie, tv mini-series, or whatever. At least Mick Garris isn't mentioned anywhere.


boralyl
1:28pm, September 3, 2008

King said he wouldn't let this series be made into a anything if it wasn't going to be perfect. This is one story he really cares about. I would love to see it come to fruition.


tszilla
2:06pm, September 3, 2008

If it has to be done, these are the guys I'd want to tackle The Dark Tower series.


DBlock
3:38pm, September 3, 2008

I'm concerned for this, excited but concerned. King's books rarely translate well to the big screen. I mean, did anyone see The Mist or Dark Half? Tommyknockers and It should not have been made for tv in the first place. I really hope this is a success.


DrGonzo
5:14pm, September 3, 2008

i think animation is the way to go on this one. An animated show on HBO a la Spawn just might work. I think the imagery in that book (as with much of kings writing) does not lend itself to live action. Remember the spider at the end of It? Scary as hell on the page, kinda laughable on screen. A mature animation could translate things like the crimson king far better. Just look at the Dark Tower comics. And if you didn't know there were dark tower comics, why the hell are you still reading this?????


Sentinel Prime X
6:42pm, September 3, 2008

DBlock, are you serious? The Mist was fantastic! Oh well, we all have our own opinions. Anyway, I dread a film adaptation of my favorite Stephen King work. I just don't see any director today able to adapt it faithfully.


Alkaline
1:28am, September 4, 2008

Better late than never. I heard this back in January.


the_arsonist
1:52am, September 4, 2008

I'm one of the best King's fans, I'm with you Sentinel Prime X, The Mist adaption was terrific, except the end of the movie is pretty similar to the novella. If they are going to adapt DT series, best King's books ever, I hope nothing less than Frank Darabond handling it. Darabont has adapted King's work exactly as one would've hoped: Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption and The Mist (despite the black ending).


DBlock
12:01pm, September 4, 2008

S Prime X, I loved the short story The Mist, loved it. When I heard in was going into production I was so excited. My problem was not the movie itself, it was the translation from book to film. I'm not sying it was really bad just that I loved all 4 stories and this time the book really has it over the movies. I completely agree with ypu about your adaptation of your favorite King work. Well said.


Thommy Razor
12:37pm, September 4, 2008

The Mist SHOULD have been good. But Tom Jane, who can't act his way out of a wet paper nutsack, and the pathetic at best CGI ruined the whole thing. And the ending shouldn't have happened. I don't want to expose it here, if anyone hasn't seen it, but it killed the mystery that the story ended with. As said above, Stephen King stories rarely translate well to the screen, and The Dark Tower series is so surreal and fantastic, these would just have to be the most epic movies ever made. I'd love to see them done right, but I would've loved to see Needful Things, Dreamcatcher, The Stand, Desperation, Riding The Bullet, Road Virus Heads North, etc, etc, done right as well. Pet Semetary was done right.


RachelPachel
10:04pm, September 4, 2008

If they decide to do this series, I hope they do something about the whack ass ending of the books!


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