Dark Tower the movie?

[MalaCloudy Black]

On February 14, 2007, Joblo.com announced that plans were underway for Lost creator J. J. Abrams to do an adaptation of King's epic Dark Tower series.

Source: Stephen King wiki article. ( )

I'm kinda up in the air about it, on one hand this is the guy that created Lost.. but he also co-wrote Mission Impossible III. >_>

[Gongsun Zan]

The Dark Tower just won't work as a movie.

A really stretched out TV series, perhaps, but even then, I'd only trust HBO with it.

[Mick]

Relax people.

Realistically a Dark Tower film won't come out until at least 2009. JJ Abrams already has his hands tied up with Star Trek XI.

Although I think this would work better as maybe a one week long miniseries. Two hours per book, seven books....

Then again, it took them 4 days to do just one Stephen King book (The Stand), so....yeah.

I just don't think it'd be feasible if it were done as a film. Too complex, seven stories. You're looking at a project bigger than Lord of the Rings.

[Venom]

Before hearing this, there were definitely a few times where I thought about how a movie adaptation of the Dark Tower series would work out. Like everyone else has said, I think I would prefer something like an HBO miniseries. I feel like a movie(s) would have to compress so much story into such a little amount of time, cutting out certain aspects, and all that would do is piss off die-hard fans.

[CKN]

I agree with Zan. This won't work as a movie. The only way the books would work if it was made into a seven season HBO series. As was said before, there is just too much content to put into a movie.

[Chris the Human]

A HBO series over a few seasons would be the only way I could see it working, even though the bastards killed Carnivale and left me wanting answers!

[CKN]

A HBO series over a few seasons would be the only way I could see it working, even though the bastards killed Carnivale and left me wanting answers!