Richie Cuningham takes on The Dark Tower?
So I get back from Dragoncon (which was a blast, by the way - got to meet Brandon Routh, Brent Spiner, Marc Singer and Billy West) to find this news!
The good: Using the platform of movies and a TV series to tell the whole story of The Dark Tower is genius and may just be the only way to do the story justice.
The bad: if I read this right, then after the second TV series (which follows book 4 and the Marvel prequel comics) we get one movie to wrap up Roland's quest. One movie to adapt three long arse books? Unless the movie is 12 hours long, that ain't gonna cut it.
Ron Howard - I like him, and his early movies (Cocoon, Splash, etc.) are great. But nothing in his career has shown he can take on an epic that needs a Sergio Leone or Peter Jackson.
Akiva Goldsman - possibly the worst major screenwriter in Hollywood. And King trusts the writer of Batman & Robin with his opus?
NBC - the series would work on HBO or another cable network. But NBC? Bullshit.
And of course the major problem is that the perfect actor to play Roland (Clint Eastwood) is about 40 years too old. Finding a younger actor with the same gravitas will be one of the biggest casting challenges in history.
Maybe it'll work. But at this stage I have very little confidence.
The good: Using the platform of movies and a TV series to tell the whole story of The Dark Tower is genius and may just be the only way to do the story justice.
The bad: if I read this right, then after the second TV series (which follows book 4 and the Marvel prequel comics) we get one movie to wrap up Roland's quest. One movie to adapt three long arse books? Unless the movie is 12 hours long, that ain't gonna cut it.
Ron Howard - I like him, and his early movies (Cocoon, Splash, etc.) are great. But nothing in his career has shown he can take on an epic that needs a Sergio Leone or Peter Jackson.
Akiva Goldsman - possibly the worst major screenwriter in Hollywood. And King trusts the writer of Batman & Robin with his opus?
NBC - the series would work on HBO or another cable network. But NBC? Bullshit.
And of course the major problem is that the perfect actor to play Roland (Clint Eastwood) is about 40 years too old. Finding a younger actor with the same gravitas will be one of the biggest casting challenges in history.
Maybe it'll work. But at this stage I have very little confidence.
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