The Dark Tower Thread

Vedderlution_Baby
Vedderlution_Baby Posts: 2,535
edited August 2012 in All Encompassing Trip
All things Dark tower.


Who could they cast as Roland in a movie?
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  • StateOfLoveBoatCptn.
    StateOfLoveBoatCptn. Posts: 904
    Vedderlution_Baby! wrote:
    All things Dark tower.


    Who could they cast as Roland in a movie?
    Is this like where Batman lives or works or something?
  • Vedderlution_Baby
    Vedderlution_Baby Posts: 2,535
    StateOfLoveBoatCptn. wrote:
    Is this like where Batman lives or works or something?


    It's a novel series by stephen king. 7 books long.
  • StateOfLoveBoatCptn.
    StateOfLoveBoatCptn. Posts: 904
    Vedderlution_Baby! wrote:
    It's a novel series by stephen king. 7 books long.
    damn! must be good
  • Lukin66
    Lukin66 Posts: 3,063
    Vedderlution_Baby! wrote:
    All things Dark tower.


    Who could they cast as Roland in a movie?
    I ALWAYS saw him as a young Clint Eastwood
    deep, deep blue of the morning
    gets to me every time
  • Vedderlution_Baby
    Vedderlution_Baby Posts: 2,535
    Lukin66 wrote:
    I ALWAYS saw him as a young Clint Eastwood


    Me too, but he's too old for it now. I honestly can't think of anyone.




    By the way, it's damn good.
  • PearlJamaholic
    PearlJamaholic Posts: 2,019
    hopefully we can give fair warning of spoilers. ive only read the first 3 books and the comics.

    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.
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  • Vedderlution_Baby
    Vedderlution_Baby Posts: 2,535
    PearlJamaholic wrote:
    hopefully we can give fair warning of spoilers. ive only read the first 3 books and the comics.

    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?
  • PearlJamaholic
    PearlJamaholic Posts: 2,019
    thats the 4th. i actually started with the comics. the comic guy was like here you might like this, so i read it and liked it then started the books. the order is ok since the comics happen before the books. so i kinda knew more about roland then i suppose most people did reading the books.

    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)
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  • Lukin66
    Lukin66 Posts: 3,063
    Vedderlution_Baby! wrote:
    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?
    http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Dark-Tower/Stephen-King/e/9780785127093/?itm=1
    Already been pre-ordered....I can't wait
    deep, deep blue of the morning
    gets to me every time
  • merkinball
    merkinball Posts: 2,262
    Vedderlution_Baby! wrote:
    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?

    That's what I was thinking too. I thought it was interesting....





    ****SPOILERS!!!!!******


    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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  • Vedderlution_Baby
    Vedderlution_Baby Posts: 2,535
    PearlJamaholic wrote:
    thats the 4th. i actually started with the comics. the comic guy was like here you might like this, so i read it and liked it then started the books. the order is ok since the comics happen before the books. so i kinda knew more about roland then i suppose most people did reading the books.

    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)



    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.
  • merkinball
    merkinball Posts: 2,262
    PearlJamaholic wrote:
    thats the 4th. i actually started with the comics. the comic guy was like here you might like this, so i read it and liked it then started the books. the order is ok since the comics happen before the books. so i kinda knew more about roland then i suppose most people did reading the books.

    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)

    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.
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

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  • Vedderlution_Baby
    Vedderlution_Baby Posts: 2,535
    merkinball wrote:
    That's what I was thinking too. I thought it was interesting....





    ****SPOILERS!!!!!******


    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.



    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.
  • Vedderlution_Baby
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    merkinball wrote:
    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.


    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.
  • Kilgore_Trout
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    ive never really cared for the translation of kings horror stuff to film... "needful things" and "the stand" were both pretty good... but the more poignant, touching stuff like "stand by me" and "shawshank" do much better... might have to check out these novels though and decide for myself how theyd work as a film... with the right cast and budget though im sure anything from king could be stellar... unless it involves a certain haunted car
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  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    I was obsessed. OBSESSED with these books in junior high and high school.. I have them all, but stopped after Wizard and the Glass.. I NEED to finish this some time.
  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    sgossard3 wrote:
    ive never really cared for the translation of kings horror stuff to film... "needful things" and "the stand" were both pretty good... but the more poignant, touching stuff like "stand by me" and "shawshank" do much better... might have to check out these novels though and decide for myself how theyd work as a film... with the right cast and budget though im sure anything from king could be stellar... unless it involves a certain haunted car
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  • merkinball
    merkinball Posts: 2,262
    sgossard3 wrote:
    ive never really cared for the translation of kings horror stuff to film... "needful things" and "the stand" were both pretty good... but the more poignant, touching stuff like "stand by me" and "shawshank" do much better... might have to check out these novels though and decide for myself how theyd work as a film... with the right cast and budget though im sure anything from king could be stellar... unless it involves a certain haunted car

    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...
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

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  • Kilgore_Trout
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    merkinball wrote:
    *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...
    youd be surprised how often i use that saying in the bedroom...
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  • Vedderlution_Baby
    Vedderlution_Baby Posts: 2,535
    merkinball wrote:
    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...


    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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