Stephen King Movie's /Any Dark Tower Junkies out there?

[Roland1919]

The Dark tower is the greatest series, greatest anything I have ever read. I lived and died with Roland and his Ka-Tet for twenty years and when it was over, really over...I could not accept that this masterpiece was done. I was left to wonder, whats next? A Movie? A chronology of Roland's childhood as a separate book? Will J.J. Abrams really direct the Dark Tower movie? His movies when done right have been very successful i.e. Shawshank, Green Mile, Misery but then theres been the dud's Christine, Mist, Cujo etc...I've been very entertained by the Marvel Comic book but lets have a movie and lets have it done right.


"First come smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire." - Roland Deschain, of Gilead

[j_rocca42]

Greatest... Books... Ever... I kind of want them to make a mini-series like the stand. because the series is so long I think that a movie would have to cut so much out of it and it just wouldn't be the same. So I vote for a mini-series!!!

[halon]

i want a dark tower movie only if they do it book for book i.e. 7 books 7 movies. JJ is in talks with Stephen.

[Roland1919]

Originally Posted by j_rocca42

Greatest... Books... Ever... I kind of want them to make a mini-series like the stand. because the series is so long I think that a movie would have to cut so much out of it and it just wouldn't be the same. So I vote for a mini-series!!!

I would love for Peter Jackson to get his hands on this and do it in the same fashion as Lord of the Rings...but who writes the screenplay will be the real key.

[pokerface]

Love the series, would like to see the movies if done right.

[Roland1919]

I've watched my Phil Hale original painting from Dark Tower III skyrocket..should have it reappraised... If anyone else has Original art from the Dark Tower they want to sell please contact me directly...

[kx11]

the shining on blu

[dobyblue]

I can't read too much of your posts if it talks about The Dark Tower.
I started reading the books in 1991 and in 1993 finished by reading The Wastelands. It was sometime I believe before Book IV came out and by that time I was too busy living out my 20's in various bars and clubs across Toronto.

Now that all seven books are out, I have decided to re-read the entire series. I am currently half way through the second book. It is like reading everything again for the first time which is most excellent.

Where Jackson to make a movie series of The Dark Tower I would be thrilled. I think it is an amazing series of books, even though I have yet to read four of them at all.

I was very excited when The Talisman was announced with Spielberg as producer, but I see it has now been changed to a TV Series, which depresses me to no end. I wish I had never watched The Stand - for the original creations in my mind of all those characters will never run through my head again quite like they will now that I've seen the series. Casting Parker Lewis as Harold was the casting I liked the least.

I voted for The Green Mile, but I did love The Shining, Shawshank and Atlantis (added to poll) very much.

[Rabidhunter]

I actually named my little brother Roland after the Dark Tower series. I do hope they do seven movies. That would be awesome. Perhaps too awesome for the world to exist as it is.

[doctorsteve]

I remember seeing the first Gunslinger book on a shelf in Kmart, many many years ago. I enjoyed the whole damn thing. Since King stated he was retiring at the conclusion of the Tower (when he was writing book 5 or 6 I believe) - I believed him. As I read book 7, and saw where it was headed - I swore to retire with him.

The ending was pure King. Loved it.

I've read no SK since. Nor will I.

SK quotes find their way into daily mundane activities. When my brother leaves my apartment after a visit, I often wave him away with a "Go then, there are other worlds than these". Or when talking about a less-than-intelligent situation, I'll throw in a "M-O-O-N spells out of gas, Laws YES!". And real fans know what old lady Semple said when I torched her pension check...

I miss Roland. I think it'd make a great movie series, but as with many of kings movies - I doubt a director exists that could get it done right... (Wachowskis? P. Jackson?)

[Roland1919]

Originally Posted by doctorsteve

I often wave him away with a "Go then, there are other worlds than these".

My girl loves when I say, "Long days and plesant nights Lady Sai." And I often use "May we be well met" or "Shall we share Palaver".

There will never be another Roland, he is the greatest and most tragic character ever and I will go to the clearing at the end of the path with him in mind. ROCK ON ROLAND...we all know your still out there looking for more than the Tower....

[moose4130]

We deal in lead, friend.
I just finished reading theses seven books for the first time, and I was amazed, as if that word could even describe it. I got to read them straight through, no waiting and it was hard for people around me, girlfriend couldn't talk to me cause I was reading, wasn't doing work at work, just wanted to get back to the books. Some of the beat I've read, and I would definitely love to see them turned into a series of movies, but how could you do them justice?

[Roland1919]

Originally Posted by doctorsteve

I remember seeing the first Gunslinger book on a shelf in Kmart, many many years ago. I enjoyed the whole damn thing. Since King stated he was retiring at the conclusion of the Tower (when he was writing book 5 or 6 I believe) - I believed him. As I read book 7, and saw where it was headed - I swore to retire with him.

The ending was pure King. Loved it.

I've read no SK since. Nor will I.

SK quotes find their way into daily mundane activities. When my brother leaves my apartment after a visit, I often wave him away with a "Go then, there are other worlds than these". Or when talking about a less-than-intelligent situation, I'll throw in a "M-O-O-N spells out of gas, Laws YES!". And real fans know what old lady Semple said when I torched her pension check...

I miss Roland. I think it'd make a great movie series, but as with many of kings movies - I doubt a director exists that could get it done right... (Wachowskis? P. Jackson?)

Originally Posted by moose4130

We deal in lead, friend.
I just finished reading theses seven books for the first time, and I was amazed, as if that word could even describe it. I got to read them straight through, no waiting and it was hard for people around me, girlfriend couldn't talk to me cause I was reading, wasn't doing work at work, just wanted to get back to the books. Some of the beast I've read, and I would definitely love to see them turned into a series of movies, but how could you do them justice?

You'd love my collection. I have every HC Dark Tower Signed and Numbered by King and the Artist. I have an original Phil Hale painting from the Drawing of the Three I bought at Comic Con for $800 now valued close to $8,000 I have the comics even a tee-shirt. The Dark Tower isn't just a series; its now a 'cult' classic. You will find that people who have read the book will almost always stop to share a word or two; they are still enthralled because it was an experience they will never forget. I wanted a movie originally, but now I can wait because nothing cinematic wise can approach the Tower even Eastwood playing Per Callahan. Though I like that idea. The Tower mind you is still out there along with Roland and as King reminds us The Dark Tower was never about the destination though we (the fans), wanted it to be, it was always about the journey. Hell of a journey might I add...and when Roland laid aunt Talitha's cross at the foot of the Dark Tower I cried like a baby, yes it had that kind of affect on me. Like all things will end so will the Tower but King let it live on in our minds and heart and left Roland to find his own truth his own Tower...Thankee Sai King....

[dobyblue]

That's funny to read about using lines from King's books.
Unfortunately I don't have anyone directly in my life to share quotes with, but my best friend and I who live 5,000km away from each other, we often quote King in our e-mails and the like.

The Gunslinger (Revised Edition)

• Bag of Bones
• The Stand
• The Eyes of the Dragon

The Drawing of the Three

• The Eyes of the Dragon
• The Shining (film)
• The Stand

The Waste Lands

• Rose Madder
• The Stand
• Cell
• It
• Insomnia

Wizard and Glass

• The Mist (from Skeleton Crew)
• The Stand
• The Eyes of the Dragon

Wolves of the Calla

• 'Salem's Lot
• Black House
• The Talisman
• The Stand
• Low Men in Yellow Coats (from Hearts in Atlantis)

Song of Susannah

• The Eyes of the Dragon
• Black House
• The Talisman
• The Little Sisters of Eluria (from Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales)
• Desperation
• The Regulators
• Low Men in Yellow Coats (from Hearts in Atlantis)
• From a Buick 8
• It
• Insomnia
• The Shining

The Dark Tower

• Insomnia
• 'Salem's Lot
• Everything's Eventual (from Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales)
• Low Men in Yellow Coats (from Hearts in Atlantis)
• From a Buick 8
• It

Of the books that are intertwined, these are the ones I have not read.

Rose Madder
Cell
It
Insomnia
Black House
The Little Sisters of Eluria
From A Buick 8
Everything Eventual

Of the books I have read, I’ve obviously found the biggest story to be RF, at which point in The Wastelands I just about fell off my chair in astonishment, as my skin literally raised an inch off the bone.

In addition, as far as memory serves as it's been almost 20 years since I've read some of those, I believe Salem's Lot is still the scariest King book I've ever read....and, I might venture as I recall the book a little more, this Constant Reader may never succumb to those haunted pages ever again.

[Edo]

Originally Posted by Roland1919

The Dark tower is the greatest series, greatest anything I have ever read. I lived and died with Roland and his Ka-Tet for twenty years and when it was over, really over...I could not accept that this masterpiece was done. I was left to wonder, whats next? A Movie? A chronology of Roland's childhood as a separate book? Will J.J. Abrams really direct the Dark Tower movie? His movies when done right have been very successful i.e. Shawshank, Green Mile, Misery but then theres been the dud's Christine, Mist, Cujo etc...I've been very entertained by the Marvel Comic book but lets have a movie and lets have it done right.


"First come smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire." - Roland Deschain, of Gilead

i heard they are goin to make The dark Tower movie w peter jackson directing it but how true it is i dont know

[Rob71]

Originally Posted by Roland1919

The Dark tower is the greatest series, greatest anything I have ever read. I lived and died with Roland and his Ka-Tet for twenty years and when it was over, really over...I could not accept that this masterpiece was done. I was left to wonder, whats next? A Movie? A chronology of Roland's childhood as a separate book? Will J.J. Abrams really direct the Dark Tower movie? His movies when done right have been very successful i.e. Shawshank, Green Mile, Misery but then theres been the dud's Christine, Mist, Cujo etc...I've been very entertained by the Marvel Comic book but lets have a movie and lets have it done right.


"First come smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire." - Roland Deschain, of Gilead

HBO or Showtime series based on all the books. I would subscribe for life to which ever one did it.