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The Dark Tower
Holy shit, it's actually happening. For real.
Starring Idris Elba as the gunslinger (which might explain the recent weird rumor about a white actress being cast as susannah...) and Matthew McConaughey as the man in black. Directed by Nikolaj Arcel and targeted to be in theaters next January. Somehow. Quote:
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I recently watched the movie Dolans Cadillac...and even though Flagg has nothing to do with the movie/story at all....the movie begins with the lines below....supposedly describing mob boss Christian Slater. WHATEVER! I'm pretty sure this is lifed almost ver batim from The Stand. I'd be surprised if there's even one SK novel where Flagg isn't referenced in some small way at least once. When he grins, birds fall off telephone lines. When he looks at you a certain way, your prostate goes bad and your urine burns. He has the name of a thousand demons; he can call the wolves and live in with the crows. He is the king of nowhere. PS - maybe I'm misunderstanding you...but Roland is NOT the dark man....
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So many of King's books tie directly or peripherally to the Dark Tower, even those he wrote before starting the series. The Talisman and Black House tie almost directly to it, those are two of my favorite King books.
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what a movie talisman would make! WOLF!
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in one of the dark tower books they are following the shore of an ocean with nothing to eat but "lobstrocities"....giant VW beetle sized lobsters. I remember reading that thinking YUM! but then after mucho time had passed they started getting sick due to lack of nutrition. worse ways to go than dying of malnutrition whilst munching on lobster every meal!
in my younger years on vacation we were going to an all you can eat lobster thing that night. I decided that I'd eat nothing all day...only beer...and that when I got there I'd eat ONLY lobster. it wasn't easy to do. I was starving and they had such a plethora of great stuff...especially this luscious seafood casserole with shrimp, scallops, crab meat, cheese....etc. it was beautiful. but NO! ONLY LOBSTER DAMMIT. I didn't even touch a cracker! at first they would only give me one lobster at a time. but after the first 3 or 4 they caved and started throwing two at me. I ate NINE. NINE mutha humping lobsters bitches. why? it just seemed like the right thing to do man....
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But even if they feel as you do, they can absolutely both be dark skinned. Just today I read an article about the state of Nina Simone accusing Zoe Saldana of not being black enough to play Nina. Let's not act like Black on Black racism or mistrust isn't a thing. It's absolutely far more important the overall story for Susannah to be black than for there to be racial tension between Roland and Susannah. That same theme can be explored in a myriad other ways. Changing Susannah would be a huge mistake. So far, the "internet reaction" to the mere rumor of a White Susannah has been met with far more outraged than the official casting of Black Roland. They're gonna do what they're gonna do. But it would be a huge mistake. And completely unnecessary. |
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Don't mistake anything I've said as a belief on my part that they should change Susannah's ethnicity. I'm just passing on what I've read elsewhere.
The part I do believe, however, is that they'll have to change her story in some significant way to make it work, if they do decide keep her black. |
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Yeah, I about shit as a young Bowser when I read The Dark Tower for the first time and saw how he described the smile of the Walking Man in the exact same way he described Randall Flagg years ago in the Stand. True nerd freakout, there.
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You are also correct about Roland. Been way too many years since I have read any of the Dark Tower series. Drove me nuts having to wait so many years between releases. |
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They're casting a black actor to play Roland? WTF?
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The remake of IT has gotten a release date of Sept 8th 2017. 2017 looks to be a big year for King stuff
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