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'The Dark Tower' Movie Apparently Cannot Be Toppled
Remember that 'Dark Tower' movie, or I should say movies, they were planned? You know, that Stephen King novel adaptation that was going to be directed by Ron Howard as three films connected by a couple of television series? Universal ended up getting cold feet on that one and the project sort of died in the water. But during a recent interview during the press blitz for 'Tower Heist,' Ron Howard's producing partner Brian Grazer mentioned that he and Howard had shaved $45 million from the budget and that the film was "going to get made." It is unclear from his comments whether that means it is still going to be three movies and two series or even whether it will still be under the Universal banner.
This is becoming a trend these days. Both 'The Lone Ranger' and 'Akira' seemed like dead projects until they magically found ways to scale back their budgets. While I'm merely not sold on the idea of doing a live-action 'Akira,' I am downright against adapting 'The Dark Tower' for the big, and small, screen. There is so much going on in this book, so many strange genre changes and a world the scope of which rivals that of Tolkien, that it would take more than three movies and a pair of television series to adequately tell the story. What's really troubling here is that Grazer asserts that cutting $45 million from the original budget will allow them to give the film the ending it deserves. I'm sorry...what? If you couldn't effectively end the movie with a larger budget, how is scaling that budget back going to help? I think it's time to let this one go.
Source: indieWIRE
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Comment by lexloco on October 25, 2011 at 11:52am -
Last comment, I'll stop. But I swear to god this is the most promising thing I've heard about the project yet:
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Comment by lexloco on October 25, 2011 at 10:23am
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Another thing to consider [which I just thought of and I really hope they do this] is that this series in particular can actually reconcile the differences between the book and the movie. I have a feeling that if in the first shot of the movie they show Roland carrying the horn of eld all the rigid by-the-book fans complaining about the book/movie differences will suddenly be in your camp.
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Comment by Rider Kabuto on October 25, 2011 at 9:24am -
After listening to ACOCO It dawned on me, why not make it animated series. You don't have to make the whole franchise animated. You could do the side stories animated, sorta like what they're doing with comic book series.
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Comment by Northern/ninja on October 25, 2011 at 9:06am -
I think it could be done. like seriously all you have to do is take out all of the really long and stupid parts from the book and just shorten it all down, for instance the one scene in the book where Roland is talking to the farmer about how he is persuing the magician that scene can be taken out and therefore would it make it a shorter movie.
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Comment by demonknight on October 25, 2011 at 3:43am -
I agree, let it go, it is too masive of a story to cram into a 2 to 3 hour long movie, unless they just do it how they did the lord of the rings movies and continue the story after each movie, maybe it could work!!!! The Dark Tower is a great story!!!!
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Comment by Rider Kabuto on October 24, 2011 at 9:43pm
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I am so torn. I would love to see them finally make it, but I'd hate if they screwed the pooch. The first book can def be made into but there is a lots of story to tell. Well we shall see, they said the Lord of Rings couldn't be adapted look how well that turned out.
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Comment by Ha-Ra on October 24, 2011 at 9:42pm -
@guffaw: thanks for that, interesting points!
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Comment by GunslingerKT19 on October 24, 2011 at 8:51pm
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Good to hear. As my name probably indicates, I'm a major fan.
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Comment by Joshua Balcombe on October 24, 2011 at 8:02pm -
@guffaw You forget the face of your father with that long fucking comment!
Seriously though good points.
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Comment by lexloco on October 24, 2011 at 6:36pm
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I do think it's perfectly doable in the original 3 movies / 2 series format that Howard was supposed to be doing. I would have felt better with JJ Abrams doing it but...whatever. I'll probably be easier to please than some people because I had some problems with the last few books and I see those problems being some of the first things to go in an adaptation because they scrap what's been set up in the first part of the series to go in a new direction...which is easy to do in a book but a big waste of time / money in a movie series.
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