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Old 09-09-2010, 11:26 AM  
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Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" Coming To Film & Television
The Dark Tower to Become a Film Trilogy and TV Series


by SuperHeroHype
Sep 9th, 2010

Based on Stephen King's series of novels

Universal Pictures Chairman Adam Fogelson and Co-Chairman Donna Langley—along with Jeff Gaspin, Chairman, NBC Universal Television Entertainment and Angela Bromstad, President, Primetime Entertainment, NBC & Universal Media Studios—today announced that Universal Pictures and NBC Universal Television Entertainment have acquired the rights to produce three films and a television series based on the seven epic novels, short stories and comic books from Stephen King's The Dark Tower.

Ron Howard will direct the first film and the first season of television, which will be written by Akiva Goldsman. Goldsman will produce the film through his Weed Road Pictures with Howard and Grazer for Imagine Entertainment. Howard, Grazer and Goldsman will executive produce the television series for Universal Media Studios. Kerry Foster will executive produce the first film for Weed Road Pictures along with Todd Hallowell and Erica Huggins for Imagine Entertainment.


Full story here: http://www.superherohype.com/news/ar...-and-tv-series
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Old 09-10-2010, 04:45 PM   #46
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I could live with Bassett. That's who I pictured most of the time I was reading the series. I didn't latch onto Zoe until after I saw Star Trek and Avatar.

And King better ****ing
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Or better yet they could cut that entire ridiculous ****ing sequence out altogether.
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Old 09-10-2010, 05:16 PM   #49
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Or better yet they could cut that entire ridiculous ****ing sequence out altogether.
.... that's one of my favorite aspects of the story....
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Some names being bandied about by comments to the article to play the part of Roland:

Viggo Mortenson
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Viggo Mortensen would be awesome.
He would be a good choice, but I really like Olyphant. He's definitely got that steely-eyed gunfighter look about him.
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He would be a good choice, but I really like Olyphant. He's definitely got that steely-eyed gunfighter look about him.
He does, but he also has this anger boiling just under the surface presence to him that I'm not sure would work for Roland. It's been a few years since I read the series, so my recollection may be off, but I always envisioned Roland as being more of an Obi Wan badass yet still calm mentor type. Kind of like Gandalf with a gun.

But I am a big fan of Olyphant.
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He does, but he also has this anger boiling just under the surface presence to him that I'm not sure would work for Roland. It's been a few years since I read the series, so my recollection may be off, but I always envisioned Roland as being more of an Obi Wan badass yet still calm mentor type. Kind of like Gandalf with a gun.

But I am a big fan of Olyphant.
Before I even knew his name, I remembered Olyphant in a very dark HBO war movie called When Trumpets Fade. He only had a small part (an officer who wigs out in combat), but he was so intense in that roll that I remembered him in stuff I saw later.
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You know what I like about Olyphant? He actually kind of looks like Stephen King. I mean, in a sort of fantasy idealized sort of way. Which is great since King describes Roland as such. He might be perfect, actually. I never would have considered him... but yeah... could work.
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.... that's one of my favorite aspects of the story....
Apologies Red, I'm not very good at keeping my opinions to myself.
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Apologies Red, I'm not very good at keeping my opinions to myself.


No worries, man. You are completely entitled to your opinions. No matter how wrong they are.

Seriously though. If they are going to include that aspect of the story... don't you think King should do it?
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No worries, man. You are completely entitled to your opinions. No matter how wrong they are.

Seriously though. If they are going to include that aspect of the story... don't you think King should do it?
Given that King appears in every single movie of his and also given that in this one there is actually a King character it would seem to make a lot of sense to have King play himself.
So they will probably cast someone else.
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Given that King appears in every single movie of his and also given that in this one there is actually a King character it would seem to make a lot of sense to have King play himself.
So they will probably cast someone else.
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