All Things: STEPHEN KING

'The Dark Tower' may have found its female lead, but there might be a problem
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The Deadline report states Lee is in talks to play “Tirana.” That name may be familiar to book readers as a MINOR character from the last novel. Definitely not someone who would be the lead. So why that name? Perhaps because “Susan” sounds suspiciously like “Susannah” and if there’s anything Hollywood hates, it’s characters with similar sounding names. Case in point? Game of Thrones Asha became Yara for the HBO show because her original name was too close to Osha.

If The Dark Tower plays out in chronological order, the film may begin not with a desert chase but with Roland in happier times, with his wife Susan. It is a traditional — if tired — trope to inflict pain on a woman to kickstart a man’s journey. Susan is even described as having blonde hair…which Lee has in spades.

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I haven't read any Stephen King, but here's all the Dark Tower you need…

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roenick said:
Just say no.

The Dark Tower is something better left to the imagination. Just like The Stand and It. Going to watch 11-22-63 and hope that doesn't get jacked up but I am not holding my breath.
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I watched the first two episodes last night. It's fine. If you liked the book, it'll feel familiar. I've got a couple of issues with things, but like I said to jd yesterday about it, with only 8 episodes they're going to have to leave some things out. So, I'm just taking it for what it is, rather than what I want it to be. They should have done it over two seasons (pre and post Dallas), but that doesn't seem to be what they're going to do.
 
SmytheKing said:
I watched the first two episodes last night. It's fine. If you liked the book, it'll feel familiar. I've got a couple of issues with things, but like I said to jd yesterday about it, with only 8 episodes they're going to have to leave some things out. So, I'm just taking it for what it is, rather than what I want it to be. They should have done it over two seasons (pre and post Dallas), but that doesn't seem to be what they're going to do.
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it was such a good book. Not saying I think this will be bad, but it deserves better.
 
jerseydevil said:
it was such a good book. Not saying I think this will be bad, but it deserves better.
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I will agree with this sentiment. The wife and I watched the first episode and we will watch the second tonight. We agreed there was something off in the first episode but we want to see how the show ends up. We both thought that some changes would be needed from the original text due to time constraints but some changes have just done away with good parts of the book. But King is an Executive Producer so he was agreeable. And talking about Jame Franco - he is a good Jake.
 
I just hate it. I have nothing against Franco...but the male lead should have been older, and Gwendolyn Christie should have been the female lead. I mean, for f's sake...King's description of her is so visually obvious. I can't get past that.
That being said, Chris Cooper is in it. And that can't be a bad thing.
 
jerseydevil said:
I just hate it. I have nothing against Franco...but the male lead should have been older, and Gwendolyn Christie should have been the female lead. I mean, for f's sake...King's description of her is so visually obvious. I can't get past that.
That being said, Chris Cooper is in it. And that can't be a bad thing.
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We have watched three episodes so far. Fair to say they have completely changed much of the basic tenet. And not always for the best but I understand that this is sometimes necessary to get our favorite stories onto the visual medium. The problems as you note are accurate though. King's narrative is so strong. As an example Sadie's actress, while as beautiful as I imagined, is probably 5'2". That isn't Sadie. Regarding Franco I actually like him in the role. Josh Duhamel as Frank Dunning was spot on also but they changed that story dramatically.

I guess it is like David Lynch's Dune, we just had to be as happy as possible to at least see on the screen what we had always only imagined.
 
Unfilmable? Psh! If they can make a movie of Naked Lunch, they can make a movie of any book. Haha. :hockey2:
 
‘The Dark Tower’ and ‘Transformers 5’ Expand Their Casts
http://collider.com/transformers-5-cast-the-dark-tower-actors/

Starring Idris Elba as The Gunslinger, a.k.a. Roland Deschain, and Matthew McConaughey as The Man in Black, The Dark Tower has had a tumultuous development process, but things are finally coming together. Sony recently moved the film from January 2017 to February 2017, and recently added Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen) is one of the latest to join the cast as Sayre, the menacing vampire leader, but today brings word of the addition of newcomer Fran Kranz. According to THR, the Cabin in the Woods actor will take the role of Pimli, The Man in Black’s righthand man.
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Hurm. Decent book, decent cast. But this one has been percolating a while...and Eli Roth was originally supposed to do it. The trailer is pretty lackluster. I have a feeling this am not going to be too great.
 
jerseydevil said:


Hurm. Decent book, decent cast. But this one has been percolating a while...and Eli Roth was originally supposed to do it. The trailer is pretty lackluster. I have a feeling this am not going to be too great.
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I have been waiting for this. Maybe it was the time I read the book and what was going on with me but I loved it. Truly terrifying to me. It looks like they have changed the plot quite a bit but maybe it has just been too long for me from reading it. And where is red hoodie guy ... ?
 
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