[Movie] The Dark Tower series coming to TV?

Matt's reaction to this was "Well... At least it's a good director. I hope he does it well. I can focus on other projects now." It's easy to tell that he's a bit put off though. (Matt is the friend that Sprouticus just mentioned.)

Anyways, having just finished the series a bare few months ago, I'm kinda looking forwards to something like this. Stephen King's website said that they would actually be making the series into comic books, but a TV series would be MUCH better. Seven movies? How much of book 7 would we lose out on? (I'm just remembering how much of the 4th Harry Potter book was lost the limitations put on movie times.) To me, every part of the book series was important to the story. Not even Mordred, who seems to serve no purpose other then to scare the travelers into moving faster, is an important part of the story.

A TV series would be much better suited for it. More time to include everything. I really wonder about the actors though...

And I wonder about the ENDING! Its not an ending most Americans will appreciate (after all, censoring Chocolate War because the bad guy won, and it wasn't a happy ending). Will they end it at King's 'first' ending, or second?

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Have they made the comic books yet? I thought that was a recent development and nothing had come out yet. I also heard that the comics weren't following the actual book, but creating different adventures for Roland and the others.

I am kinda excited though. I want to see others interpretations of the book. There was some crazy amount of symbolism that I figured out at then end, but I cant remember what it was right now. Hmm...

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Thats a good point. I wonder... In all his other movies (from my recollection, I'm not a huge scary movie fan), he only plays a brief part, like a pizza boy or something.

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But in this case, he'd have a HUGE part to play... as himself.

Which, when that started appearing in the series, I thought was pure genius. Scared the crap out of me too, because as someone who wants to be a writer once she's out of college, Stephen King is fucking intimidating. I have no hopes of being the next King, but jesus christ, the Dark Tower was pure genius... especially because he wrote it over such a long period of time, and could still find crazy ways to link everything.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I'm gonna bump this thread after seeing this: Stephen King Ventures into Comic Books

I wasn't aware that the first comic book had been published already (I had read your post, Sass, but it must have gone right over my head), so this was a huge thing to me. The article says that the comic books are meant to fill in parts of Roland's life that aren't totally gone into during the books. It also says

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King calls it his life's work — it took him nearly 20 years to complete the series, the final book was published in 2004. But unlike myriad other King stories, it's never been made into a film or TV show.

So is it not being made into a TV series now?

I have to admit, as juvenile as it sounds, I'm feeling jealous at the release of the comic books. The Dark Tower is such an amazing series, but it's probably one of his least known works... I would have never known King wrote something like that if my boyfriend hadnt introduced me to it. Pretty much everyone I talk to doesn't know the book series exists. The comic books coming out almost make it feel like a jewel I've always enjoyed admiring in private is being revealed to the public.

Of course, that may make for better Dark Tower conversations later in time.

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