They just haven't decided if it's going to be the big or little screen yet.
Dark Tower Series
I haven't read all the books in the series, but the ones I did read I enjoyed.
Full Version: The Gunslinger
I'm predicting television in a style similar to Lost.
they better not screw this up like every other king work brought to celluloid.
the first three books were the strongest IMHO. song of susannah and the wolves of the callah were decent, but he starts to spin out a bit in wolves.
do yourself a favor if you read the final book resist the temptation to read the second ending, it will do nothing but piss you off royally.
the first three books were the strongest IMHO. song of susannah and the wolves of the callah were decent, but he starts to spin out a bit in wolves.
do yourself a favor if you read the final book resist the temptation to read the second ending, it will do nothing but piss you off royally.
QUOTE (hank213 @ Friday, March 2nd, 2007, 5:01 PM) 
they better not screw this up like every other king work brought to celluloid.
Um... not EVERY king work. The Shining (the original, not the god awful tv movie) is amazing. Shawshank is very good. What's that one about the kids running away, with the train scene and the cherry pie puking? I'm having a brain crap, that' movie is good. Misery is ok. Everything else.... not so much..
I really loved the first gun slinger book .. There was a time in my early teens where I was a huge king fan, then I grew up ( a little) and became very tired of his tedious writing, particularly in his later books. This is because, in part, of the fact that king doesn't actually write his books any more. They are ghost written by a team of writers, that he heads. Steven King is a brand, not a writer these days. But the gunslinger was so different. So unlike anything he'd ever written. It was bare, and magical and creepy, and like a western on mescaline or something. I loved it so much. The second book was good, but a bit of a let down. The 3rd book was.. okay, but the books were getting more "Kingy" More like his other works, and less originality. I didn't finish the 4th book, which I thought was crap. If they make this a TV movie, it will suck. if they allow King to have any degree of artistic control or veto power, then it is going to suck. King has no idea what it means to make a good movie, he's too.. biased by his own view of the story. For example, he hated Kubrick's The SHining, a classic of the horror genre. Whereas the shining mini-series ( what I could stomach of it, at least) was god awful, not in the same zip code. I have zero expectation for the gunslinger Movie ( movies). If it's good, I'll be pleasantly surprised.
QUOTE (BigDMcGee @ Friday, March 2nd, 2007, 8:24 PM)
Um... not EVERY king work. The Shining (the original, not the god awful tv movie) is amazing. Shawshank is very good. What's that one about the kids running away, with the train scene and the cherry pie puking? I'm having a brain crap, that' movie is good. Misery is ok. Everything else.... not so much..
Stand By Me
QUOTE (BigDMcGee @ Friday, March 2nd, 2007, 7:24 PM)
Um... not EVERY king work. The Shining (the original, not the god awful tv movie) is amazing. Shawshank is very good. What's that one about the kids running away, with the train scene and the cherry pie puking? I'm having a brain crap, that' movie is good. Misery is ok. Everything else.... not so much..
I really loved the first gun slinger book .. There was a time in my early teens where I was a huge king fan, then I grew up ( a little) and became very tired of his tedious writing, particularly in his later books. This is because, in part, of the fact that king doesn't actually write his books any more. They are ghost written by a team of writers, that he heads. Steven King is a brand, not a writer these days. But the gunslinger was so different. So unlike anything he'd ever written. It was bare, and magical and creepy, and like a western on mescaline or something. I loved it so much. The second book was good, but a bit of a let down. The 3rd book was.. okay, but the books were getting more "Kingy" More like his other works, and less originality. I didn't finish the 4th book, which I thought was crap. If they make this a TV movie, it will suck. if they allow King to have any degree of artistic control or veto power, then it is going to suck. King has no idea what it means to make a good movie, he's too.. biased by his own view of the story. For example, he hated Kubrick's The SHining, a classic of the horror genre. Whereas the shining mini-series ( what I could stomach of it, at least) was god awful, not in the same zip code. I have zero expectation for the gunslinger Movie ( movies). If it's good, I'll be pleasantly surprised.
I really loved the first gun slinger book .. There was a time in my early teens where I was a huge king fan, then I grew up ( a little) and became very tired of his tedious writing, particularly in his later books. This is because, in part, of the fact that king doesn't actually write his books any more. They are ghost written by a team of writers, that he heads. Steven King is a brand, not a writer these days. But the gunslinger was so different. So unlike anything he'd ever written. It was bare, and magical and creepy, and like a western on mescaline or something. I loved it so much. The second book was good, but a bit of a let down. The 3rd book was.. okay, but the books were getting more "Kingy" More like his other works, and less originality. I didn't finish the 4th book, which I thought was crap. If they make this a TV movie, it will suck. if they allow King to have any degree of artistic control or veto power, then it is going to suck. King has no idea what it means to make a good movie, he's too.. biased by his own view of the story. For example, he hated Kubrick's The SHining, a classic of the horror genre. Whereas the shining mini-series ( what I could stomach of it, at least) was god awful, not in the same zip code. I have zero expectation for the gunslinger Movie ( movies). If it's good, I'll be pleasantly surprised.
um, yeah i wasn't being literal there.
you pretty much did exactly what i did regarding his books and for the same reason. i gave him another chance after i picked up bag of bones a year or so ago to read on a plane. then this was the first summer in years that i didn't have any courses so i sat down and read the entire series. the fourth was pretty much skipable and as i said before it really comes back during song of susannah.
i don't see how they could do this as a big screen picture and do the characters any kind of justice unless it's at least a trilogy. It really seems more suited to a mini series to get a good portion of the character development and story in there.
QUOTE (hank213 @ Friday, March 2nd, 2007, 7:24 PM)
um, yeah i wasn't being literal there.
you pretty much did exactly what i did regarding his books and for the same reason. i gave him another chance after i picked up bag of bones a year or so ago to read on a plane. then this was the first summer in years that i didn't have any courses so i sat down and read the entire series. the fourth was pretty much skipable and as i said before it really comes back during song of susannah.
i don't see how they could do this as a big screen picture and do the characters any kind of justice unless it's at least a trilogy. It really seems more suited to a mini series to get a good portion of the character development and story in there.
you pretty much did exactly what i did regarding his books and for the same reason. i gave him another chance after i picked up bag of bones a year or so ago to read on a plane. then this was the first summer in years that i didn't have any courses so i sat down and read the entire series. the fourth was pretty much skipable and as i said before it really comes back during song of susannah.
i don't see how they could do this as a big screen picture and do the characters any kind of justice unless it's at least a trilogy. It really seems more suited to a mini series to get a good portion of the character development and story in there.
yeah, but if they make it a mini series, as is likely, it will be too much banal character development. these are the things that have plagued king in brining he's book's to TV... he has no sense of what to edit out.
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