[Movies] Dark Tower To Be Movie Trilogy & TV Series
Posted by Steve Cook on 09.08.2010
NBC Universal taking the Stephen King novel to the big & small screens...
NBC Universal has made a deal with Stephen King to make a movie trilogy & a TV series out of The Dark Tower. They will be produced together. Ron Howard, Akiva Goldsman and Brian Grazer, the team behind The DaVinci Code & A Beautiful Mind are behind the adaptation. A film will come out first, then there will be a TV series in between the first and second films. The same thing will happen between the second and third films.
No dates have been announced, but it is believed that it will take place over three consecutive years.
Ron Howard is going to be a part of this? Don't get me wrong, Ron is a great director, perhaps one of the greatest movie directors of all time, but JJ Abrams knew the books, and he decided not to do it because he didn't want to disappoint the Tower faithful by putting out something they would dislike. Let's face it, no true follower of any epic book series like the movie adaptations. Hardcore Lord of the Rings followers hated the movies, and even Harry Potter geeks has something to whine about when it comes to Daniel Radcliffe. I hope Stephen King isn't making the same mistake he made with Stanley Kubrick. Of course, the Shining made a shit load of money, but King regretted the movie because he felt Kubrick sacrificed the integrity of the book to make money. This project seem more of a risk than any book series had to deal with. Three films and a TV series? God, I hope this turns out well because if it doesn't Dark Tower junkies are gonna to hunt King and Howard down.
Posted By: billy (Guest) on September 08, 2010 at 09:39 PM
I'm a rather avid Dark Tower fan and while I have plenty of misgivings about the idea of adapting the Tower series to TV and movies I am very excited that they're at least going to try, and the idea of doing a TV series that would be in conjunction with a movie trilogy really intrigues me as there is a lot of story to tell in the Tower series and this could be a way to get it all across. I'm very excited at the idea of seeing Roland, Eddie, Susannah, Jake and the others represented on screen, but in the end if I don't like the adaptation, I still have the books.
Posted By: The Nick (Guest) on September 09, 2010 at 12:05 AM
The only way it would work would be an HBO series. There's no way you can have The Dark Freakin Tower on NBC.
And a trilogy will not cover 7 books and be satisfying to the people that count. You know, the ones of us who've actually read them.
Posted By: demOcratic (Guest) on September 09, 2010 at 08:08 AM
1- Ron Howard did have a hand in "Willow" so he's not completely out of his element in the fantasy genre.
2- This could go on TV, despite protests like those of DemOcratic. Though he is correct-- it couldn't go network, it could EASILY be done on a channel like F/X or AMC. If they can show Breaking Bad on cable they can show The Dark Tower.
Posted By: M:-X (Guest) on September 09, 2010 at 11:53 AM
Excited and very skeptical.
Viggo must be Roland.
Posted By: AngryTas (Guest) on September 09, 2010 at 11:54 AM
You guys have got to be kidding with the complaints. This is probably the best possible adaption medium they could give us. Movie trilogy and two TV series? I mean, you should feel grateful they didn't decide to make it one movie. Or one TV series.
Posted By: Tim (Guest) on September 10, 2010 at 12:32 AM
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