Ron Howard Updates Dark Tower

Ron Howard Updates Dark Tower

While interviewing director/producer Ron Howard about a number of projects, Deadline's Mike Fleming got an update on the adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Tower.

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By EdGross - Dec 14, 2010 10:12 AM EST
Filed Under: Fantasy
Source: Deadline

The approach to The Dark Tower remains unique: feature films with a TV series airing between films to fully develop things.

Said Howard, "It is going well, and it has been incredibly stimulating to work on. It's dense, a great author's life work is not to be taken lightly. It has been utterly fascinating to explore it, and we are having great creative conversations. I've begun tossing and turning at 3 in the morning over it, so that's a good sign."

The first film is scheduled to be released by Universal on May 17, 2013.

While it's been previously announced, what is the general feeling about films supported by a television series? It's unprecedented in Hollywood history.

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LEEE777
LEEE777 - 12/14/2010, 10:59 AM
Nice!
longshot234
longshot234 - 12/14/2010, 11:28 AM
I think this material is definately in the right hands. I'm very excited about this, and am curious to see how the TV series will look, in contrast to the movies!
Weeton
Weeton - 12/14/2010, 11:28 AM
I cannot wait for this series. Epic Win.
zippiesdrainage
zippiesdrainage - 12/14/2010, 11:29 AM
Please please please please PLEASE! Change the ending. The ending of the book is horrible. It builds up to a great epic confrontation that never happens due to a character introduced 30 pages before the end of the book.
TheLoisLane
TheLoisLane - 12/14/2010, 11:33 AM
Sounds amazing. I love the idea of a supplemental TV series. Really, it's the only way to do it right, outside of making half a dozen feature-films.
EdGross
EdGross - 12/14/2010, 11:57 AM
Ah, Paulie, you're referring to a post from several days ago where you criticized the sound of the audio on interviews I post. Sorry, that's the sound quality when you conduct interviews over the phone. But the point I want to emphasize is that I never suggested anything about the quality of the interviews themselves -- you either like them or you don't -- but, rather, the audio quality.
THEHAWK
THEHAWK - 12/14/2010, 12:04 PM
Yeah, I hope this is good, but the adaptation has one glaring flaw...Akiva Goldsman is supposed to be writing it.

Goldsman is a hit or miss writer and producer.

Here are his hits:
A Beautiful Mind
Davinchi Code
Conderella Man
Angels and Demons
I am Legend


Here are his misses:

HE WROTE BATMAN AND ROBIN!
BATMAN FOREVER
Lost in Space
Deep Blue Sea
Constantine
JONAH HEX
The Losers
brilaneb
brilaneb - 12/14/2010, 12:11 PM
King definitely needs to update the ending since it doesn't finish the story. I think it was meant to be a shot at all the fans who were negative about him taking so long to finish it. Time to step up and have the epic battle we've been waiting for.
scapegoatjones
scapegoatjones - 12/14/2010, 12:20 PM
Roland would've been no match for the CK, so if not for the way he handled it in the books, he wouldve employed a different handicap for CK. Everyone was waiting for King to reveal the secrets of the universe after that first palaver in the Gunslinger. But he's just Steve King. There were plenty of epic battles (Balazar's for example) in the series why would it have to end with one?

Also no hot chocolate ending plz. It was the one complaint I had about LOST (they used it in the final season to help everyone leave the series feeling satisfied).
ManThing
ManThing - 12/14/2010, 12:36 PM
This is SO LONG OVERDUE!!
TheNameIsBetty
TheNameIsBetty - 12/14/2010, 1:47 PM
@brilaneb You know that the first book is not the only book, right?
The4thWall
The4thWall - 12/14/2010, 2:47 PM
@THEHAWK Well, all of his hits were directed by Howard...
joker22
joker22 - 12/14/2010, 4:47 PM
I'm A Huge Stephen King Fan.
And The Dark Tower Books Are Perfect The Way They Are.
Keep Everything The Same And I'll Highly Enjoy Them.
And The Ending To The Books Is Something Only SK Get Could Get Away With.
So Screw All The Haters!
brilaneb
brilaneb - 12/14/2010, 5:59 PM
@Fartman Yes, I have read all seven of them but was disappointed with how King finished the series. It didn't resolve what the previous six books were leading up to. Would you agree?
screams
screams - 12/14/2010, 6:49 PM
@THEHAWK

You probably meant to put Deep Blue Sea on the hit list. That's ok, I forgive you.
TheNameIsBetty
TheNameIsBetty - 12/14/2010, 9:48 PM
@brilaneb Actually, i'm still working on finishing it. So I apologize lol
Feverplate
Feverplate - 12/15/2010, 1:28 AM
PLEASE DON'T RUIN DARK TOWER!!!!
AlexDeLarge87
AlexDeLarge87 - 12/15/2010, 2:40 AM
Hope he gives it justice!
LocoLobo1127
LocoLobo1127 - 12/15/2010, 11:19 AM
Hmm it's funny how so many people get different things from the ending of Dark Tower, see I do see it as an ending of sorts, Part of it is that the story does nt end because in the mind of the WRITER( STEPHEN KING) ROLAND will always continue his journey. His Tet has passed and now he must move on. He can never reach the Tower and Confront the Crimson King , because King is the Crimson King and this is his world that he had built. This story has always been one that takes place not on alternate Earth but in Stephen Kings Mind. Thats why in Tower we see Light Sabers, and Snitches, these are things from Kings mind that he brings into his world, they are in old storage bunkers cause these are his memories.When the worlsd is falling apart its due to Kings Injuries. Tower basically lets the audenice in on the secret that Roland is being controlled, yet he doesnt know it , by KING. I thought it was pretty easy to figure out. I know in reading some stuff King had said that he hadnt started out with Roland being the Gaurdian of his mind but he has always been there since He first started writting.
scapegoatjones
scapegoatjones - 12/15/2010, 1:15 PM
SK's thoughts on the series do not correspond to this mess above me ^^^
King wrote himself into the series after he was laid up in an accident that happened
here in Maine.

Fun facts: The van the druggie hit King with was purchased by King and then ceremoniously smashed by him with a sledgehammer on the anniversary of the accident.

Even better the guy who hit King died of apparent 'heart failure' on KING'S BIRTHDAY!

Look it up. And for the love of Ka do not cross KING.
Spectre94
Spectre94 - 12/15/2010, 1:54 PM
cool
TNTjesus
TNTjesus - 12/15/2010, 2:51 PM
I don't know if it changes the ending of the story or continues it, or it may be a flashback story, but King is going to write another Dark Tower novel.
New Dark Tower Book
Posted on: 11.12.09

Stephen has announced that he has an idea for a new Dark Tower book, the working title of which will be THE WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE. He has not yet started this book and anticipates that it will be a minimum of eight months before he is able to begin writing it.
Check it out here: http://www.stephenking.com/DarkTower/

There is also a news link from ComicBookMovie.com on there!
RolandOfGilead
RolandOfGilead - 12/17/2010, 4:31 AM
I haven't been on here for days and just read this. Great news to hear its still in the works!!! Boo to May 17 2013 release date. GET ON IT RON!! :)
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