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Who could they cast as Roland in a movie?
Who could they cast as Roland in a movie?
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It's a novel series by stephen king. 7 books long.
gets to me every time
Me too, but he's too old for it now. I honestly can't think of anyone.
By the way, it's damn good.
i did hear awhile ago that there were talks already going about a movie/series. i hope they dont do a tv series cause so much will be censored. but with movies they have a time issue. i cant see them making 5+ movies.
as for actors they need to find a harrison ford, clint eastwood type kid. maybe a cool animated series might work. no cgi beowulf crap though.
Watch out for the comics then. You may accidentally pick one up that is further ahead than you are. The third one...wizard and glass?
roland wasnt just someone chasing a guy through the desert for me. i was just wondering how he got there from where the 1st comic series ended and the first book started.
i know the 4th book is supposed to be alot of his past stuff, so im really hoping to start reading that soon, might be the next book i start. i like to space things so i dont get burned out. (happened with tolkien for me)
Already been pre-ordered....I can't wait
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That's what I was thinking too. I thought it was interesting....
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How the second storyline in the comics deviated a bit from the D/T story as I remember it. I thought Roland gave the 'grapefruit' back right away. But it's been a year or two since I re-read the D/T series.
Also, that page in the comics where Sheemie meets the Robot who gives him his power, my first thought was that the robot was Andy. That would have been a cool continuity move.
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The waste lands. I always got those two mixed up. I personally wouldn't have liked knowing what was coming before getting to it if I had picked up the comics first. I burned through those books like crazy. Read the first four in about three months and had to wait seven damn years to finish the series up.
It's tough to get burned out on the D/T series. Even if it gets to be a lot, there is so much else in the King universe that ties into it along the way, you can pick up any one of his books and pick up some side information.
Insomnia is the book that really kicked it in for me on King, but the two books he did with Peter Straub (Talisman and Black House) are very much entwined in the Dark Tower series, as are the (King Written) Richard Bachman books The Regulators and Desperation.
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I only got to browse them when I was killing time at books a million. The artwork is awesome though. I'm glad they show the grit and blood that's in the books. I need to reread the entire series. I've only been through it once and like I said before, I read the first four really fast and had to wait for the other three.
Insomnia gave me the best visuals of any book I have ever read. When he's describing the auras of people...my mind was going full force.
Behind the TDT series, the talisman and black house are my two favorite books. I just can't get enough of that fantasy/real world type of writing. The regulators was decent...but desperation was incredible.
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Christine wasn't so bad of a movie. I'm a bit biased though, the football scene was filmed at my high school (showing my age, I was a student then).
Been a long time since I've seen it, but I remember it being decent. The only other King adaptation I've really liked was Shawshank. I remember the Stand and It TV adapatations being good too, or at least they seemed so at the time.
If they were to do a movie adaptation, and I hope they don't, it would have to be done Hobbit style, where each book gets its own film. Maybe the first two could be put together (Gunslinger/Drawing of the Three), but beyond that... No idea how to cast this one, beyond Clint Eastwood about 40 years ago as Roland.
*edited to add - This may be the first time in my life that I've used the phrase 'It would have to be done Hobbit style'. May be the last too...
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Eastwood definitely would have been the perfect Roland. And you're right about each book having to be it's own movie. There is just too much stuff to cover to try to make it into anything other than that. (Atleast from my stand point. I'm sure there's people who don't like it as much that could find some stuff that could be cut out. But then you'd be pissing off the diehards...)
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read the talisman and aside from liking the comics this book was one of the reasons i tried the dark tower stuff. i was always under the impression that king was a horror writer. but since talisman was great i figured hey maybe he can do more non-horror. but now his non-horror stuff is easily my favorite.
My favourite series of books ever, I am going to return to them sometime in the future and read them again
2003 ~ Toronto
2005 ~ London, Toronto
2006 ~ Toronto
2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
Wizard and Glass is still my favorite. That world he created is incredible. And he managed to keep the tension up even though you already knew how it was going to end.
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MTL-9/15/05, OTT-9/16/05
PHL-5/27/06,5/28/06,10/30/09,10/31/09
CHI-8/2/07,8/5/07,8/23/09,8/24/09
HTFD-6/27/08
ATX-10/4/09, 10/12/14
KC-5/3/2010,STL-5/4/2010
Bridge School-10/23/2010,10/24/2010
PJ20-9/3/2011,9/4/2011
OKC-11/16/13
SEA-12/6/13
TUL-10/8/14
yes, it was mine as well
I totally fell in love with Susan Delgado, lol
am I not the only one ?
2003 ~ Toronto
2005 ~ London, Toronto
2006 ~ Toronto
2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
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I cried.
thats the guy that does lost right? if so thats the same dude i read about months ago. i like the books ive read and dont think a movie can be better, but seeing how lotr was done i think if treated right they could make a very good movie. so you need a guy that actually respects the story to start. and it seems abrams could be that guy.
these are one of the few books while reading i kept thinking, that would be cool in a movie.
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************Really, big spoilers if you haven't finished the series*********
Except the ending of the 7th (last) book. It took a while to get what was Kings intent there, I doubt that would pay off well in a movie. And, no offense to King, but they'd have to up Flagg's death. That was one of the more disappointing aspects of the book.
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hahaha
I was wondering myself if this was just a mistitled Batman thread
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