And now, ladies and gentlemen, I've got good news and bad news sourced from Wikipedia with some reputable backing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_T...adaptation )
The good news: they're finally going forward with a Dark Tower film!
Even more good news: Anders Thomas Jensen and Nikolaj Arcel are rewriting the script, taking it out of the hands of (shudder) Jeff Pinkner and Akiva Goldsman, a pair of TV hacks. Jensen was the story supervisor on Von Trier's Antichrist, and hasn't worked much in Hollywood - hopefully it'll be a very distinct look and feel that he brings. And Jensen wrote the script for Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, which regardless of the feminist bullshit was a tight piece of work. Again, they're Danes, so I'm actually slightly hype for this looking and feeling a lot more alien than standard Hollywood shit. Arcel gives a fuck and seems to be a Stephen King fan, which is promising at least.
The bad news...
- It's a single film, so who the fuck knows how much they'll try to cram in.
- It's being made by Sony. Also see: the new Ghostbusters reboot.
- Ron Howard is still there, but is producing it.
- They've cast Idris Elba as Roland of Gilead. I will not start race wars here, and Stephen King has given his usual faggy approval for whatever shit they throw at the screen, but Roland for the past thirty years has been all but explicitly described as Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name on steroids. I don't remember said MWNN being black.
- They've cast Matthew McConaughey as Walter O'Dim. (Interestingly, he's also been sought/cast as Randall Flagg in a new upcoming TV movie of The Stand.) I....am not certain whether to call this bad news or not. If McConaughey is directed right he's fantastic. But frequently he's not directed right.
- They have also cast Abbey Lee Kershaw (model - one of the wives in Mad Max) in the role of Tirana for this film. Fans reckon she doesn't come in until the seventh volume. Fuck, I don't even remember anyone by that name in the series at all. A quick Google-fu says Tirana was a low woman in the Dixie Pig who knocks Callahan's charm out of his hand, so fuck knows what the hell they're going to do with her. But hey:
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WPWAETTDT (Would Palaver With And Escort To The Dark Tower)
The good news: they're finally going forward with a Dark Tower film!
Even more good news: Anders Thomas Jensen and Nikolaj Arcel are rewriting the script, taking it out of the hands of (shudder) Jeff Pinkner and Akiva Goldsman, a pair of TV hacks. Jensen was the story supervisor on Von Trier's Antichrist, and hasn't worked much in Hollywood - hopefully it'll be a very distinct look and feel that he brings. And Jensen wrote the script for Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, which regardless of the feminist bullshit was a tight piece of work. Again, they're Danes, so I'm actually slightly hype for this looking and feeling a lot more alien than standard Hollywood shit. Arcel gives a fuck and seems to be a Stephen King fan, which is promising at least.
The bad news...
- It's a single film, so who the fuck knows how much they'll try to cram in.
- It's being made by Sony. Also see: the new Ghostbusters reboot.
- Ron Howard is still there, but is producing it.
- They've cast Idris Elba as Roland of Gilead. I will not start race wars here, and Stephen King has given his usual faggy approval for whatever shit they throw at the screen, but Roland for the past thirty years has been all but explicitly described as Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name on steroids. I don't remember said MWNN being black.
- They've cast Matthew McConaughey as Walter O'Dim. (Interestingly, he's also been sought/cast as Randall Flagg in a new upcoming TV movie of The Stand.) I....am not certain whether to call this bad news or not. If McConaughey is directed right he's fantastic. But frequently he's not directed right.
- They have also cast Abbey Lee Kershaw (model - one of the wives in Mad Max) in the role of Tirana for this film. Fans reckon she doesn't come in until the seventh volume. Fuck, I don't even remember anyone by that name in the series at all. A quick Google-fu says Tirana was a low woman in the Dixie Pig who knocks Callahan's charm out of his hand, so fuck knows what the hell they're going to do with her. But hey:
WPWAETTDT (Would Palaver With And Escort To The Dark Tower)
Remissas, discite, vivet.
God save us from people who mean well. -storm