Stephen King's Epic "The Dark Tower" - Part 1

[Doctor Jones]

http://www.superherohype.com/news/366693-stephen-king-and-nikolaj-arcel-talk-the-dark-tower-movie-confirm-idris-elbas-casting

It be official. McConaughey confirmed too with a pair of badass tweets.

I don't know why but McConaughey's tweet made me super pumped. Hopefully something could be arranged where McConaughey plays Flagg in The Stand.

 

[The Apocalypse]

So they're starting off in the middle? I feel like the first book could have easily been adapted into a film.

 

[uchiha_itachi]

Why would this no longer be valid? It's still a valid idea to me, this is just the depiction of Roland in this version of the story.

[BLACKOUT]Because Roland didn't turn into a black man at the end of the last book haha[/BLACKOUT]

Im hyped for Edris though and Mathew. Dark tower is the only set of books I've read all the way through from I-VII.

 

[uchiha_itachi]

So they're starting off in the middle? I feel like the first book could have easily been adapted into a film.

Im kind of cool with that, I think it gets the story going faster and we get all the main players quicker. I hope to god they have the scene where we first meet Eddie though, but naked in the shoot out that cracked me up haha

 

[The Apocalypse]

Im kind of cool with that, I think it gets the story going faster and we get all the main players quicker. I hope to god they have the scene where we first meet Eddie though, but naked in the shoot out that cracked me up haha

Starting off with rescuing Jake takes away all the emotional elements of why rescuing him is so important to Roland.

 

[green]

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/02/2...ephen-king-idris-elba-and-matthew-mcconaughey

Arcel acknowledges that skin color actually was an important factor in the relationship between Roland and Susannah, the black amputee he drew into his world from her life in 1964. In the books, she is not thrilled to find herself yanked into another dimension by a grizzled white guy. “Some fans are asking, understandably, ‘What about the racial tension?’” Arcel says. “But as the story progresses that will be made clear, how we’ll deal with all those things.”

At least he is acknowledging it. Not sure about the jumping in to the middle part.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

The jumping into the middle part just doesn't make sense, at all, I am no fan of the first book but it shouldn't hard to adapt it for the movie.

Still don't get Idris as Roland either as he is supposed to look like Clint Eastwood with a bit of Stephen King. And I love the guy as an actor as well.

 

[Frodo]

So when they say they're starting the story in the middle, do they mean the middle of the "Gunslinger" i.e., the first book , or do they mean the middle of the whole saga in which they already have Eddie, Jake, and Susannah?

 

[terry78]

I am the first to rally against some nerd griping about a character being race lifted, but this one seems like they're just doing it so they can put Elba in the movie for their own sake.

 

[redhawk23]

I am the first to rally against some nerd griping about a character being race lifted, but this one seems like they're just doing it so they can put Elba in the movie for their own sake.

I don't know. Especially of they let him use his own accent I can see him playing well into the weird amalgamation of a Western Knight. Also just thinking of some the training scenes from the wastelands. Agine Elbas voice " You have forgotten the face of your father
". It was getting kind of old to see Elba fancast as everything but this feels weirdly right.

 

[Bruce Malone]

The jumping into the middle part just doesn't make sense, at all, I am no fan of the first book but it shouldn't hard to adapt it for the movie.

Still don't get Idris as Roland either as he is supposed to look like Clint Eastwood with a bit of Stephen King. And I love the guy as an actor as well.

There have been adaptations of works where characters were drastically changed but they still made it work.

No reason the 5'3" runt Wolverine should have been played by a 6'2" actor but it worked for the most part.

 

[Victarion]

I hope Lud is as chilling on screen as in the novel. Assuming they're starting in book three.

 

[The Guard]

The jumping into the middle part just doesn't make sense, at all, I am no fan of the first book but it shouldn't hard to adapt it for the movie.

Still don't get Idris as Roland either as he is supposed to look like Clint Eastwood with a bit of Stephen King. And I love the guy as an actor as well.

It makes perfect sense. Most of the truly relevant story and character work happens after The Gunslinger. They want to introduce the Ka-Tet in the first film.

 

[Marvolo]

I've never read the books, but based on what y'all have said Roland in the books is modeled after Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name . A Clint Eastwood ripoff might work in a book. On the page it's easier to get away with that. But on screen if the director tried to seriously sell a Clint Eastwood rip off to the audience Im not sure it would play well. Fans of the book would like it, but the rest might only see it as a Clint Eastwood ripoff. I think they made a smart decision getting away from that.

 

[chamber-music]

Idris Elba did a kind of southern American style of accent in Prometheus which I bet he will probably use in this this.

I personally think it is great the Idris Elba is finally getting a shot at being the leading man of a potential major franchise. These kind of roles don't come around often for minority actors and Elba is long past due getting his crack as a leading man.

 

[flickchick85]

Ok, Idris being confirmed finally got me excited about this again.

 

[Rowsdower!]

I've never read the books, but based on what y'all have said Roland in the books is modeled after Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name . A Clint Eastwood ripoff might work in a book. On the page it's easier to get away with that. But on screen if the director tried to seriously sell a Clint Eastwood rip off to the audience Im not sure it would play well. Fans of the book would like it, but the rest might only see it as a Clint Eastwood ripoff. I think they made a smart decision getting away from that.

Except Roland isn't a Clint Eastwood rip-off. His look and some of his personality are influenced by the character, but there is a lot more to Roland than that. Although I do think the look is important.

 

[:eek:]

Spoiler

The Waste Lands—“Jake: Fear in a Handful of Dust”: Door and Demon, Section 20
Jake passes the movie theater and turns on to Markey Avenue. He keeps waiting for that feeling of “knowing” to come to him, but it doesn’t. He hears laughter behind him and turns to see two boys—an 18-year-old Henry and 12-year-old Eddie—teasing a girl from the theater box office. And Jake recognizes the younger boy as the boy in his dream. Finally.
What Constant Reader Learns: More Westerns—Jake notices the theater is showing a double feature of “A Fistful of Dollars” and “The Good, The Bad & The Ugly.” He stops to look at a poster of Clint Eastwood and thinks he has bombardier’s eyes like Roland’s. “You let me drop,” he says to the poster/Roland. “You let me die. What happens this time?”

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

It makes perfect sense. Most of the truly relevant story and character work happens after The Gunslinger. They want to introduce the Ka-Tet in the first film.

Spoiler

So they totally miss things like Roland letting Jake fall? That's a pretty important story point in the books.

 

[The Apocalypse]

So they totally miss things like Roland letting Jake fall? That's a pretty important story point in the books.

You put that in spoilers.

But with rumors going around that Roland will be starting his quest off with a certain item that he didn't have before then it might mean he draws a whole new ka-tet this time.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

You put that in spoilers.

But with rumors going around that Roland will be starting his quest off with a certain item that he didn't have before then it might mean he draws a whole new ka-tet this time.

Then I don't see the point in doing the movie personally. It would be a poor adaptation.

 

[green]

Eh this stinks of Rothman…lets pass over the first two movies that have all the development and jump right into it.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Eh this stinks of Rothman…lets pass over the first two movies that have all the development and jump right into it.

 

[Octoberist]

Except Roland isn't a Clint Eastwood rip-off. His look and some of his personality are influenced by the character, but there is a lot more to Roland than that. Although I do think the look is important.

King just admitted that Roland sorta was, and then the character evolve.

 

[Man in the Suit]

Quint from AICN breaks down the Akiva Goldsman & Jeff Pinkner draft