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.
dream cast: ok this is for whoever makes it, realizing it’s going to take a while to make this movie, even if they start work on the scrip in 2010, the casting might be tricky, here is a list of up and coming actors who I BELIEVE can be these parts, now or in a couple years, the first name for each character is my first choice, the other names are extra thoughts :) most of these guys are picked for acting chops, not too many big names
Roland Deschain: Jon Hamm-i know i know, thats crazzzyyyy! and all that, but I see something in what he is, I think he can do it with distinction.
Stephen Deschain: CLINT
Randall Flagg: Christian Bale, because he can be downright EVIL
Martin: Mike Patton, seriously.
Susannah: Naomie Harris, then next pick, Sanaa Lathan, then kerry washington..close to the right age group, odetta had class, detta had kickass :)
Eddie: Joseph Gordon Levitt, yeah he’s scrawny, but he’s a smart ass who could do it, if he just COULD NOT do it, i guess i’d try cillian murphy?
Jake? depends on when the movie is being cast, can’t say right now, dont know when it’s going to happen, hope they get a kid who can act
Alain: lee pace, has the right spirit, or charlie hunam
Cuthbert: Ben Foster i guess, haven’t been able to find the right one
Jamie:Emile Hirsch,,,,maybe?
Cort: Ray Winstone, the voice of beowulf c’mon :)
Vanney the Wise: Guy Pearce, total educational counterpart to Cort
Tick Tock: Alexander Skarsgaard
Jack Andolini: James Gandolfini, (and it rythmes)
Balthazar: Jon Stewart, I think of The Faculty Death scene :)
Jack Mort (the Pusher): maybe Tim Roth
Father Callahan: Owen Best
Sheemie: Adrien Brody
Dandelo: Javier Bardem or if it cant happen then Gerard Butler
The Crimson King: dang, this is almost as hard as choosing Roland, he’s got to be completely off his rocker and imposing maybe Clancy Brown? off the top of my head, watch the Carnivale show he did for hbo :)
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
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.
But the real question is; who would you like to see adapt it? And who your dream cast be?
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.
HBO making a series of The Dark Tower would be the perfect answer with 1 season as 1 book. The only problem is that HBO tends to cancel great shows such as Rome, Deadwood, and the best TV show ever Carnivale.