THE DARK TOWER: Mike Flanagan Is Still Working On The Series But Confirms It Has No Streaming Home

@EarlChai -

"The Dark Tower" Series is Stephen 👑 King's MAGNUM OPUS


It is an epic that deserves "TLOTR" status



QUOTE:

"The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed"



The first one "The Gunslinger" could be told twice, as a Short Film 📽️ by someone (this would be the opportune time for a collaboration between Terrence Malick and James Mangold) who can capture a Western (like "Unforgiven") that has elements of horror and post-apocalypse and again, as a cinematic 🎥 multi-media hub for Stephen 👑 King's Multiverse

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The SECOND🥈 one in the series "The Drawing of the Three",

I would really like someone like Christopher Nolan or Denis Villeneuve to tackle

Just the image of floating doors 🚪 that serve as portals to alternate realities is damn surreal



This franchise needs talent David Cronenberg and Ralph Fiennes delivering something like "Spider"

@CorndogBurglar - OK, let me put it this way…

You’re a marketing department. You want to attract an audience to your new Dark Tower movie/streaming show. People who are already fans of the books will probably watch regardless. Who you need to convince is the casuals who don’t know much about it.

The first movie left a bad impression. You’re going to have to fight against audiences’ memories of that.

You can try to push the author. World famous, yes, but there’s been a lot of adaptations of his books. Some are pure classics. Many are trash. That won’t help much.

You can push the books. But it’s an eight-book series. Longer than Harry Potter, and nowhere near the hype HP had its prime. And people are going to inevitably start with the first book.

Which is very long. And very boring. And very forgettable.

Actually, I have an idea. Hold on a second…

@CorndogBurglar - (Oh, and it said there were two versions of the first book ‘cus King thought the original was too boring and tough for new readers to get into. It’s been about ten years since I listened to the audiobook of The Gunslinger, so I have no idea which version that was. 🤷‍♀️)

@EarlChai - The first book is very short. It's only 224 pages.

@EarlChai - I'm not saying it would be easy to adapt. It's arguably one of the hardest works of fiction ever written to adapt into a movie. And things may need to be changed, like introducing King as a character.

But what makes The Dark Tower so special is that it's the central story of King's multiverse of books. He was doing the multiverse long before multiverses were even a thought in a lot of people's minds. Unlike today where it's in everything it seems.

The Dark Tower is the nexus of all realities. The Dark Tower series explains all the little things that King put into his seemingly unrelated novels that observant readers noticed. Some subtle, and some very big. Like the number 19 appearing in a LOT of his books. The Crimson King actually appearing in Insomniac as the main bad guy, years and years before he was ever mentioned in a Dark Tower book. Vampires like we saw in Salem's Lot. The appearance of characters from these others books. The turtle that is mentioned in IT as the true force of good. The disease in The Stand. The main character in The Mist painting a picture of Roland standing in front of the Dark Tower. Countless others.

The Dark Tower connects all these other books that readers only thought were small coincidences. And you can read all those other books as standalone books and wouldn't miss anything. Or, you can read them all and The Dark Tower series and find out what's really going on in the background.

It's truly a work of art unlike anything else.

And as for the ending? It made a lot of people mad at the time. But fans calmed down over the years and have accepted that it does actually make sense. And we're also left with hope this time, as Roland has the Horn of Eld with him. Signifying that after all these times he's made his journey to the Tower, he's finally learned the lessons he needs to put a stop to the loop and save reality.

@Scripturepoetic - Totally agree. I do just feel like the person I replied to hasn't really given the series a fair chance though. But to be fair I almost can't blame him because most stories don't make such a drastic change from the first and second book.

Most of the time you can make that decision of whether you like the world and the beginning of the story. But The Gunslinger? You can't do that.

I personally love the first book. But I do realize there are fans that consider it one of the worst in the series.

@Scripturepoetic - I'll be the first to admit that Dark Tower isn't for everyone. It gets reeeeeeeeeally weird. Lol.

But reading the entire thing is probably the most fulfilling reading experience I've ever had.

@Scripturepoetic -

I feel that 'The Writer' in a "TDT" adaptation should be more than a Stephen King cameo

I feel like the depiction of 'The Writer' should be a character study type of portrayal, that hints at dealing with a sense of schizophrenia, something similar to Johnny Depp's portrayal of 'the author' in "Secret 🪟 Window" or James McAvoy in "Split"

@CorndogBurglar -

Stephen King 👑 acknowledges that "TDT" found it's voice in "The Drawing of the Three"

I can see that

The second novel really dealt with interesting states of mind and reality and introduced the forming of 'the Ka-Tet'



A "The Gunslinger" adaptation should embrace the source's wierdness, it's what differentiates it from "The Mandalorian" or "Lone Wolf and Cub", and Roland Deschain is a damn hypnotic character

As much as I feel Javier Bardem could capture the character's sociopathy, I feel like Ethan Peck would be an interesting choice; especially since his grandfather plays Ahab in "Moby Dick"


The parallels of 'Holy Grail/White Whale' hunting are just so appropriate

@Scripturepoetic - I could see that. The Gunslinger feels very different than all the other novels.

Have you ever read the comics? They show the really important pieces of history that are only briefly mentioned in the main series. Like the Battle of Jericho Hill and The Fall of Gilead.

They are really well done. The Fall of Gilead may be the most depressing comic series I've ever read.

@CorndogBurglar -

There is definitely another story to tell, on this latest journey


I wouldn't be mad, if it plays out in the comics, or through another medium