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

[Inhuman117]

sadly i never read any of the books yet so we have Demons , Magic and Revolverheroes but what exactly is so Special or What is The Dark Tower ???

 

[Guts]

 

[Sawyer]

Wikipedia is also a thing.

 

[Octoberist]

Yeah..Too much to explain.

 

[Black Narcissus]

sadly i never read any of the books yet so we have Demons , Magic and Revolverheroes but what exactly is so Special or What is The Dark Tower ???

The Dark Tower is about a cowboy confused about his sexuality. He is in love with the man in black and follows him across the world just to get glimpse of him. He adopts a kid along the way and goes on various adventures together.

 

[Shawn Wayne]

HA! I love it

 

[Guts]

The Dark Tower is about a cowboy confused about his sexuality. He is in love with the man in black and follows him across the world just to get glimpse of him. He adopts a kid along the way and goes on various adventures together.

He also puts himself inside a heroin addict.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Not liking the idea of how they are doing this. The stuff with Jake already has me nervous.

 

[Octoberist]

I'm nervous due to the fact that Tom Rothman greenlit this, and Akiva Goldsman'a a producer.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I'm nervous due to the fact that Tom Rothman greenlit this, and Akiva Goldsman'a a producer.

This actually explains a lot.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Not liking the idea of how they are doing this. The stuff with Jake already has me nervous.

I'm nervous due to the fact that Tom Rothman greenlit this, and Akiva Goldsman'a a producer.

Agree with both, I am just on the last book now and have really enjoyed the series. But the way they are doing the movies just doesn't sound appealing to me.

 

[Octoberist]

From what I gather there was a rewrite of Akiva's screenplay but they might be keeping the same structure where Jake is our surrogate and our Shia LaBeef aka Transformers. Or at least that was reported in the original script. Things could change.

But let's say they do keep Akiva'a plot structure, he sucks. He's usually unfaithful to any source material, be it The Cinderella Man, A Beautfiul Mind and A Winter's Tale.

Akiva sweared up and down that he loves A Winter's Tale as a book...only to use the first few chapters for his adaptation.

 

[Octoberist]

But the good news is that by chance I met a friend of a friend who works at Sony and was able to read the screenplay. He says it's great...but he's never read the books.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

But the good news is that by chance I met a friend of a friend who works at Sony and was able to read the screenplay. He says it's great...but he's never read the books.

Well that's the issue, the script might be great, but as an adaptation of the books it could be garbage.

 

[Logan0327]

i'd rather have a great movie than a great adaption

 

[Guts]

i'd rather have a great movie than a great adaption

 

[Victarion]

He also puts himself inside a heroin addict.

And a guy that got his rocks off from pushing people and maiming them or dropping bricks on their heads.

 

[-JKR-]

If a great book inspires a great movie, while adapting the structure to the filmmaker's vision, that's a great thing. I don't think every movie needs to be adapted nearly 1:1.

Not everything needs to be adapted like the Harry Potter series.

 

[Doctor Jones]

If you buy the rights to the book because you think the book would make a great movie, and it's barely true to it, what was the point in even adapting it?

 

[Octoberist]

Well there's examples of movies straying from the book and still ends up being gold but that depends on the director and screenwriter.

Here we have a good but unproven director, a horrible writer (but whose script got rewritten). So it's so up in the air.

 

[Victarion]

Are those prosthetics for grandfather vampires?

 

[-JKR-]

If you buy the rights to the book because you think the book would make a great movie, and it's barely true to it, what was the point in even adapting it?

You can stay faithful to the books by what you depict and how you do it in the movie, without having to follow its exact story beats and order.

Them starting in the middle of the story doesn't make it 'barely true to it,' if what's in it is faithful.

 

[Guts]

Have their been any casting anouncements or rumors about who will play Susannah and Eddie.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

If you buy the rights to the book because you think the book would make a great movie, and it's barely true to it, what was the point in even adapting it?

to both. I would never expect a 100% adaptation as they are different mediums. But what I have heard from this movie it's barely a 50% adaptation.

 

[The Apocalypse]

Have their been any casting anouncements or rumors about who will play Susannah and Eddie.

Just the usual Aaron Paul for Eddie but it looks like they're being saved for a sequel. If there is one.