Abrams says Dark Tower isn’t Happening
Posted by Rodneyon 11. 11. 2009in News Chat
Stephen King’s Dark Tower series has been resting its movie rights on the high dusty shelves of JJ Abrams Bad Robot for a while now and the itchy fingers of the devils idle hands want to see him make that film.
But its not going to happen. Not yet anyways.
[Abrams] said last month he won’t be making Dark Tower, and now Abrams tells MTV the movie won’t be happening at all for a while. “The Dark Tower thing is tricky,” Abrams began. “It’s such an important piece of writing. The truth is that Damon and I are not looking at that right now.”
Personally I would rather see Dark Tower become JJ’s new TV series to fill the gap that Lost will leave.
Its an epic story, and what I feel will be FAR too vast to be contained in a single film. JJ’s gift for character development and revealing mystery and a driving need to see the next episode would make him a perfect fit for bringing the feudal magical western medieval fantasy series to life.
I am not a big Stephen King fan as I tend not to like horror novels, but the Dark Tower series had me at Hello.
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amen to that….make it a HBO series like Rome
or each season could be a book
That would/could/should be epic
indeed…probly one of the most epic books i have read…in line with several other series like doone etc.
Yeah, doone was awesome.
I liked DUNE better.
Unless Kevin J Anderson was writing. That was fail.
But the real question is; who would you like to see adapt it? And who your dream cast be?
I actually wouldn’t mind seeing an animated Dark Tower series, done in a style similar to the recent Marvel comics run. I’m sure there would be some anime directors who could handle the (massive) gig.
This is just sad news.
I agree, The Dark Tower would be awesome as a tv series a-la Carnivale. Each book a season. And not putting books as Insomnia as ‘mindtraps’. Make the Crimson King mad as hell as he was @ Insomnia and Black House. And change the ending.
Frank Darabont should write and maybe direct some episodes