Stephen King's The Dark Tower

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Also, it somehow slipped by me but EW confirms who Kathryn Winnick is playing. Which is interesting because IMDB still has that info blank. Misdirection? Or sneaky reveal? Let's remember that she posted that photo of herself on Instgram covering the name of her character on her trailer.

[Brett]

I'm trying so hard to not follow this movie too closely but you're making it difficult!

Enjoy the ride.

I'm sort of the opposite. I had no interest in this movie (thinking the series inherently unfilmable) until Joseph started ramping up the hype.
Now I'm looking forward to January.

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I'm trying so hard to not follow this movie too closely but you're making it difficult!

Enjoy the ride.

I'm sort of the opposite. I had no interest in this movie (thinking the series inherently unfilmable) until Joseph started ramping up the hype.
Now I'm looking forward to January.

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Great interview between Idris and EW @ Comi-Con about The Dark Tower (and how he chose Roland's accent):

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/07/21/da ... ger-accent

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Call the phone number. It works and it's creepy as hell.

Got a text after calling. Responded on a whim with apparently the correct code word.

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I just saw an advertisement for the Tet Corporation on a web page. There was a cutesy turtle graphic on it too. I can't be certain it was DT related - I mean, this early? and also who looks at banner ads? - but I'm going to say it was related. Kind of interesting.

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I just saw an advertisement for the Tet Corporation on a web page. There was a cutesy turtle graphic on it too. I can't be certain it was DT related - I mean, this early? and also who looks at banner ads? - but I'm going to say it was related. Kind of interesting.

Yep. Definitely related. Those have been out for a while. The marketing on this thing is on fucking point. I love it.

[Brett]

They've even got a website: http://www.tet-corporation.com/

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Elba to star. 10-13 episodes with filming to begin next year and premiere sometime in 2018 when the first movie starts hitting streaming channels etc.

In honor of Stephen King’s birthday, the makers of The Dark Tower film are unwrapping their plans for the saga’s companion TV series.

The movie — starring Idris Elba as the gunslinger Roland Deschain, and Matthew McConaughey as the menacing Man in Black — opens on Feb. 17 and explores the hero and villain’s opposing quests to reach an otherworldly tower that connects their apocalyptic realm with ours.

Ever since the film project was first proposed, it came packaged with an unusual idea: a spin-off TV show that would fill in the fantasy epic’s prodigious backstory.

Now, sources at production company MRC and the film’s executive producer and co-screenwriter, Akiva Goldsman, have revealed to EW exclusive details about what they have planned for that series.

First off, it’s definitely happening.

MRC has committed not just to making a pilot, but producing a full run of between 10 and 13 episodes, depending on how the scripts and story arcs develop. The Dark Tower show will begin shooting in 2017 with plans to premiere it in 2018, ideally around the time the film becomes available on cable or streaming services.

What the producers don’t yet have is a distributor. The darkness of the story rivals that of Game of Thrones, so they will require either a cable or streaming platform (MRC also makes House of Cards for Netflix, so they have a history already.) But MRC is not going to wait for a partner to come aboard before moving forward.

Elba has signed on to appear as older Roland alongside Tom Taylor, 15, who plays Jake Chambers in the film, a boy from present-day New York who harbors a secret, psychic power and is grappling with visions of the tower and the men (and other creatures) who are trying to reach it.

That duo will serve as the framing device for the show’s central story, which takes place many years before the events depicted in the film. Since the series will be Roland’s origin story, a younger actor will be cast to play the aspiring gunslinger as a teenager, back before the realm of Mid-World “moved on” into chaos and bloodshed.

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/09/21/da ... ow_twitter





There's more in the link obviously and they wonder about McConaughey’s involvement that it's a possibility given his character is in the story too.

[CopperTom]

I'm sceptical since Movie, TV, Movie, TV ... was the old vision of the franchise. Back when Javier Bardem was set to play Roland.

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I'm all about this. If the formula is that we tell adult Roland and the quest for the tower in a film or trilogy of films and we tell the young Roland story on TV, it's gonna work out perfectly. I love it.

[CopperTom]

It definitely could work great. Something like this, in this scope, has never happened.

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Totally. Which is why I'm excited to see if they can pull it off. It could all be a giant nightmare. But I'm optimistic right now.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

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I haven't read all of those. But I'd 100% put Lisey's Story in the 'Unfuckwithable' category. And 'It' in a category somewhere between 'Decent but Flawed' and 'Really Bad.'

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

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I haven't read all of those. But I'd 100% put Lisey's Story in the 'Unfuckwithable' category. And 'It' in a category somewhere between 'Decent but Flawed' and 'Really Bad.'

I think many would agree with you on Lisey's Story, I just found it to drag a bit too much, and got annoyed by all the little turns-of-phrase that were unique to their relationship. My biggest problem with King has always been his dialogue, and Lisey's Story is perhaps the greatest offender, despite having a great plot and some really lovely passages.

My issues with It are really simple: Everything set in the 50's is top-notch; everything set in the 80s is garbage.

That's interesting because I'd probably disagree with you about It. I love all the adult stuff. Most of the kids stuff reads like tin. And that ending is easily his absolute worst. Kiddy gangbangs just aren't my thing, maybe.

I wouldn't change a thing about Lisey's Story. It's one of my all time favorite books by anyone.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

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I haven't read all of those. But I'd 100% put Lisey's Story in the 'Unfuckwithable' category. And 'It' in a category somewhere between 'Decent but Flawed' and 'Really Bad.'

I think many would agree with you on Lisey's Story, I just found it to drag a bit too much, and got annoyed by all the little turns-of-phrase that were unique to their relationship. My biggest problem with King has always been his dialogue, and Lisey's Story is perhaps the greatest offender, despite having a great plot and some really lovely passages.

My issues with It are really simple: Everything set in the 50's is top-notch; everything set in the 80s is garbage.

That's interesting because I'd probably disagree with you about It. I love all the adult stuff. Most of the kids stuff reads like tin. And that ending is easily his absolute worst. Kiddy gangbangs just aren't my thing, maybe.

I wouldn't change a thing about Lisey's Story. It's one of my all time favorite books by anyone.

Yea, the ending to It is pretty awful, though I do like the turtle imagery.

Did you ever read Bag of Bones? Lisey's Story was such an odd followup, in that it dealt with nearly identical subject matter, but from the woman's point of view.

I have not read Bag of Bones yet. It's next on my list after the Mr. Mercedes Trilogy.