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    J.J. Abrams to Adapt Stephen King’s ‘Dark Tower’



    J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof hope to adapt Stephen King’s Dark Tower novel series after their hit series concludes. Abrams tells MTV: “We got the rights for [Dark Tower] as a film. Damon is obviously still on Lost and we’ve been working on Star Trek together. As soon as Lost is done, hopefully we’ll begin tackling that.” Exciting news for horror fans.







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    I only read through half of the first book.

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    Not a reader, but I always wanna watch a King adaption.

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    I know how it could be done.

    Shoot the first four with all the production quality of any Harry Potter or new Batman franchise films.

    Shoot the last three on a webcam with Abrams playing one of the major villains, and edit it in Windows Movie Maker.

    That will make the series match the books perfectly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Metapher View Post
    Not a reader, but I always wanna watch a King adaption.
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    While I approve of J.J. Abrams since I loved Cloverfield and Star Trek looks awesome, I'm not sure a film adaption of the Dark Tower series would work.

    For one the books all happen from back to back to back, with only a few months in between some at the most. While that may not be a problem for adult actors, one of the main characters, Jake, is 12 from start to finish in the series. Also, during the 4th book which is mostly a prequel really, there's a very sexual relationship with the main characters who're only 14 and 16.

    I love the series, but I don't see a movie series about it working.

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    I loved the Dark Tower series awhile ago, I am pretty stoked to see how this series turns out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aurone View Post
    While I approve of J.J. Abrams since I loved Cloverfield and Star Trek looks awesome, I'm not sure a film adaption of the Dark Tower series would work.

    For one the books all happen from back to back to back, with only a few months in between some at the most. While that may not be a problem for adult actors, one of the main characters, Jake, is 12 from start to finish in the series. Also, during the 4th book which is mostly a prequel really, there's a very sexual relationship with the main characters who're only 14 and 16.

    I love the series, but I don't see a movie series about it working.
    Plenty of 18 year olds can play 14 and 16.

    I don't know anything about the series, but King's name on a film makes me interested. Ignoring the fact that I'm not impressed by JJ Abrams. I was even stoked for that Cell that was gonna have Eli Roth directing, and boy does he suck. What happened to that film anyway?

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    The company that was financing the project found out Eli Roth would be directing, so they shut down the project.

    For realz.

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    So they're actually doing it now. J.J. and King have been wanting to do it for like the past 2-3 years. King said he likes J.J. and thinks he would do a good job.

    I'll believe it when something official hits the airwaves.

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    i really like Abrams so i wouldnt be opposed

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    Hell yeah, hopefully it won't fuck up one of my favorite King books

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    Not sure it would work. But I will wait and see.

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    I see another shitty King movie in my future.

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    Hmm interesting. I look foward to seeing it. Wonder when that'll be?

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    I like JJ Abrams. Can't think of anyone else who has a shot of making these rather unfilmable novels. I stopped reading after Wizard and Glass.

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    Can you blame them really? I mean the book was bad enough but a movie direced by Roth would have really sucked. Anyway back on topic, I don't watch Lost, and hated Cloverfield, so it will be interesting to see how this turns out.

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