Posted on 01/27/2011 11:31:45 PM PST by OddLane
Javier Bardem is apparently the strong contender to play Roland Deshain in "The Dark Tower". After he was mentioned as frontrunner along with Viggo Mortensen, he is now reported to have been officially offered the lead role. Deadline Hollywood says formal negotiations haven't yet begun but the filmmakers have shown great enthusiasm that they have found the right actor.
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Very, very few King movies are actually worth anything. I can’t possibly see the Dark Tower being done in a way that’s understandable without taking psychotropic drugs before watching it.
Darn it, I am going to have to finish the series. I think the train ride will be difficult to make into a movie. Forget which book that is in.
“Darn it, I am going to have to finish the series.”
You have 2 years: first movie in the trilogy not being released until 2013
The man in black fled into the desert and the gunslinger followed......(((ping)))
Don’t know if it will really be good. And yes, I HAVE read all seven (that’s right, seven) novels. Unfortunately, from my point of view, the series went downhill after the third book.
To Envisioning: Despite my comment above, that line is still on my all time favorite list for openings. (Others provided upon request)
So the book series is much longer than a trilogy; there are six books I believe? Think I have made it to book four.
“there are six books I believe?”
I dunno. I used “trilogy” since I believe the article said they planned to cover the story in 3 movies, the first to appear in 2013.
There are still a lot of clunkers, especially those freak shows directed by his buddy, Mick Garris, but you also have some good ones.
Either way, as a Tower junkie I'm definitely going to give this a shot, at least the first film.
One of the best literary cliffhangers ever written, IMO.
I've never actually seen the film, but I tend to agree with your analysis of it, based upon the novel.
There's a rich vein of dark humor in his novels.
I haven't finished any since the final, eponymous volume of The Dark Tower though.
I think that was the zenith of his career as a horror novelist.
Have you read Under the Dome?
The only post-TDT novel of his I've attempted is Duma Key, which wasn't bad.
On the other hand, it wasn't good enough for me to want to renew it after reading approximately 200 pages.
Wizard & Glass is my favorite, but there are so many things about the last book that I love, especially the final conclusion.
The Drawing of the Three is the one that got me hooked on the series.
You should try it. I was pretty impressed. What would happen to a subset of people if they are cut off from the rest of civilization. All sins will be revealed.
‘Christine’ was well done, and so were ‘It’, ‘Sometimes They Come Back’, ‘Carrie’, and ‘The Langoliers’.
Of course, ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ was a masterpiece, and ‘The Green Mile’ was excellent.
Almost every television adaptation of King's work, with the curious exception of the The Stand, has been dreadful.
As much as I admire Bronson Pinchot as an actor, I'd rather watch a marathon of the worst episodes of Perfect Strangers than that movie.
Same here.
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