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I can't help but think that I will be dissapointed. I loved the book (Drawing of the Three was my fav.) |
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Book VII was rubbish. Stephen King is a troll-faced hack. He is a poor writer who has the occasional good idea. Which he then bludgeons to death. Still, another Stephen King film! There's only been about 75 of 'em so far, and they've all been so good! |
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secret window was kinda decent imo. |
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Troll-faced hack, haha. I loved book 7 though. I can see why people had problems with it, but I was very pleased with the way it ended. |
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You got any books out? Any movies? ... |
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What's that got to do with it? Does being published grant you immunity from criticism or signify that your effluence is pristine and golden? i think not. |
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there have been countless crap stephen king book to film adaptations.. which is a pity, because at his best, king is a fucking great writer.. but there have been great films as well.. stand by me the green mile shawshank the shining carrie (probably my favourite) misery the dead zone (not great, but passable) salem's lot (ditto) er.. that's it? |
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*spoilers* If I was turning the Dark Tower into movies, I'd make it a trilogy, editing out all of the stuff where Stephen King writes himself into the story (I actually LOVED that in the book, but it wouldnt work on film), and I would ditch most of Song Of Susanna, as much as I loved that part of the story too. I would probably open the movie with Tull... with the Man In Black riding into town under the sickly yellow sky, and follow with Roland's amazing shootout where he kills the entire town. From there I'd progress to the Waystation where he meets Jake, and then have him Draw out Eddie And Susanna. I would probably devote the entire second movie to his backstory as told in Wizard And Glass (it's sort of important that we already know Eddie and Susanna before Roland tells this tale), then for the third movie I'd sort of squash together Wolves and the Calla and The Dark Tower, probably leaving the battle with the Crimson King out of the story all together but placing more emphasis on the Man In Black... if I have one major criticism of Book 7, it was the way he let that character die (Mordred the spider ate him.) Having said all that, I still probably wouldnt see the movie even if I heard it was gonna be exactly like that... I dont want to picture Robert Downey Jr. as Eddie and Halle Berry as Susanna, or whoever they cast... I just know the movie would rub off and fuck up the story for the next time I read it. Anyway I've always pictured a younger Clint Eastwood the Gunslinger, but he's much to old to play the part now. |
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that picture just makes me so sad that he's now too old to play the part :( |
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it would have had to come out by the late 80s for Eastwood, I think. if they just do one it will have to be something like W&G that can focus on a smaller sub story. i think it would even be tough to fit the entire Dark Tower into a trilogy. |
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more spoilers W&G and The Gunslinger could be condensed into flashback sequences and non-linear (pulp fiction, the prestige) story telling. In the first movie I would open on the beach, and have one of the first thing that happens is he loses his fingers to the lobstrosities. Then, as he is lying there, you could have him remember a lot of the back story, and then maybe continue peppering in scenes of events from those 2 books as a side story, kind of wrapping that up at the bonfire scene (where he originally tells W&G in the books) which would be in the 1st or 2nd movie. The 5th book would also need to be really condensed down, and maybe occur from the end of the 2nd and resolve at the beginning of the 3rd. The 3rd would then be Modred, Mia and everything that happens in those last 2 books. I would also drop references from books like Insomnia or IT, maybe even open a movie with Flagg fleeing at the end of the Stand into Rolands world. |
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