Stephen King's The Dark Tower

[epilogue]

Oh boy...

[run2death]

Why in the world would a 95-minute runtime be a bad thing?

[epilogue]

It's an epic story. They're already cramming a ton of stuff together (they've implied we'll see elements from all 7 books in this thing). The short running time just makes me worry that there won't be enough time spent developing the world and the characters. I'm worried it's gonna be a longer version of the trailer now: all action set pieces and no wonder or subtlety.

[epilogue]

Many of my favorite films are on the longer side, too. I tend to like a longer running time, in general.

[run2death]

Most modern sci-fi/fantasy movies are far too long in my opinion.

[epilogue]

I don't necessarily disagree with you there. This... this is different, though. It really should have been a tv series.

[Monkey_Driven]

It's an epic story. They're already cramming a ton of stuff together (they've implied we'll see elements from all 7 books in this thing). The short running time just makes me worry that there won't be enough time spent developing the world and the characters. I'm worried it's gonna be a longer version of the trailer now: all action set pieces and no wonder or subtlety.

This is my prediction...

[E.H. Ruddock]

Wait so they are only doing this whole series in one movie?!

[stip]

Given how convoluted this world and story are I am surprised to see such a trim runtime

[wease]

Wait so they are only doing this whole series in one movie?!

God, I hope not.

[epilogue]

Wait so they are only doing this whole series in one movie?!

Well... what they're doing is sort of a mash-up. This movie doesn't follow the first book and only the first book. They're staring in the middle and pulling aspects from all the books to tell this one story. (There's actually a really fucking awesome reason/justification for this but I can't talk about it without spoiling things.)

If this movie does well, they plan on making more of them. But they want to know there's hunger for a franchise. Last I heard, the plan was still to make three films and do a TV series that fills in the rest (mostly backstory with a young Roland).

[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.

[epilogue]

Wait so they are only doing this whole series in one movie?!

Well... what they're doing is sort of a mash-up. This movie doesn't follow the first book and only the first book. They're staring in the middle and pulling aspects from all the books to tell this one story. (There's actually a really fucking awesome reason/justification for this but I can't talk about it without spoiling things.)

If this movie does well, they plan on making more of them. But they want to know there's hunger for a franchise. Last I heard, the plan was still to make three films and do a TV series that fills in the rest (mostly backstory with a young Roland).

I thought they said this movie was more like a sequel?

Well, yeah, that's all part of what's wrapped up in what I said before about there being an awesome reason/justification for all of this but that it's a spoiler to get into it.

[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.

[epilogue]

Ah, got ya. Thanks Joey. I hope you have an awesome day.

Hey thanks, friend. And the same to you!

[wease]

Wait so they are only doing this whole series in one movie?!

Well... what they're doing is sort of a mash-up. This movie doesn't follow the first book and only the first book. They're staring in the middle and pulling aspects from all the books to tell this one story. (There's actually a really fucking awesome reason/justification for this but I can't talk about it without spoiling things.)

If this movie does well, they plan on making more of them. But they want to know there's hunger for a franchise. Last I heard, the plan was still to make three films and do a TV series that fills in the rest (mostly backstory with a young Roland).

I thought they said this movie was more like a sequel?

Well, yeah, that's all part of what's wrapped up in what I said before about there being an awesome reason/justification for all of this but that it's a spoiler to get into it.

Then put a spoiler tag in there, m'boy!

[epilogue]

Wait so they are only doing this whole series in one movie?!

Well... what they're doing is sort of a mash-up. This movie doesn't follow the first book and only the first book. They're staring in the middle and pulling aspects from all the books to tell this one story. (There's actually a really fucking awesome reason/justification for this but I can't talk about it without spoiling things.)

If this movie does well, they plan on making more of them. But they want to know there's hunger for a franchise. Last I heard, the plan was still to make three films and do a TV series that fills in the rest (mostly backstory with a young Roland).

I thought they said this movie was more like a sequel?

Well, yeah, that's all part of what's wrapped up in what I said before about there being an awesome reason/justification for all of this but that it's a spoiler to get into it.

Then put a spoiler tag in there, m'boy!

Oh, do you really not know? And do you want to know? Cuz I'll spoiler tag the fuck out of it if you guys really want to talk about this.

[bada]

Sad to say but my interest in this has plummeted.

[wease]

Wait so they are only doing this whole series in one movie?!

Well... what they're doing is sort of a mash-up. This movie doesn't follow the first book and only the first book. They're staring in the middle and pulling aspects from all the books to tell this one story. (There's actually a really fucking awesome reason/justification for this but I can't talk about it without spoiling things.)

If this movie does well, they plan on making more of them. But they want to know there's hunger for a franchise. Last I heard, the plan was still to make three films and do a TV series that fills in the rest (mostly backstory with a young Roland).

I thought they said this movie was more like a sequel?

Well, yeah, that's all part of what's wrapped up in what I said before about there being an awesome reason/justification for all of this but that it's a spoiler to get into it.

Then put a spoiler tag in there, m'boy!

Oh, do you really not know? And do you want to know? Cuz I'll spoiler tag the fuck out of it if you guys really want to talk about this.

We're RM. Of course we want to talk about it. We'll talk about monkeys fucking for a nickel.

[epilogue]

Wait so they are only doing this whole series in one movie?!

Well... what they're doing is sort of a mash-up. This movie doesn't follow the first book and only the first book. They're staring in the middle and pulling aspects from all the books to tell this one story. (There's actually a really fucking awesome reason/justification for this but I can't talk about it without spoiling things.)

If this movie does well, they plan on making more of them. But they want to know there's hunger for a franchise. Last I heard, the plan was still to make three films and do a TV series that fills in the rest (mostly backstory with a young Roland).

I thought they said this movie was more like a sequel?

Well, yeah, that's all part of what's wrapped up in what I said before about there being an awesome reason/justification for all of this but that it's a spoiler to get into it.

Then put a spoiler tag in there, m'boy!

Oh, do you really not know? And do you want to know? Cuz I'll spoiler tag the fuck out of it if you guys really want to talk about this.

We're RM. Of course we want to talk about it. We'll talk about monkeys fucking for a nickel.