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A film version of Stephen King's The Dark Tower has been green light, it is scheduled for release on the American Thanksgiving weekend 2017. The film will be helmed by writer-director Nokolaj Arcel, who's previous credits include the original The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and A Royal Affair. The breakthrough films of Noomi Rapace and Alicia Vikander.

The roles were highly sought after but the casting has been set:

The Gunslinger - Idris Elba
The Man in Black - Matthew McConaughey
Tirana - Abbey Lee

I haven't read The Dark Tower, so I'm assuming the male characters are based on Clint Eastwood and Johnny Cash. For those of you that don't recognize the female lead, she was the pierced peroxide blonde in Mad Max: Fury Road.

With all due respect to Shawshank, The Shining and Misery; IMHO the best film from a Stephen King is The Dead Zone.

 
Shawshank Redemption is the highest ranked movie on the IMDB with score 9.3/10.
It took the number 1 spot years ago and still stay there.
My personal favorite is the Green Mile.
R.I.P. Michael Clarke Duncan :(
 
IRIS said:
Shawshank Redemption is the highest ranked movie on the IMDB with score 9.3/10.
It took the number 1 spot years ago and still stay there.
My personal favorite is the Green Mile.
R.I.P. Michael Clarke Duncan :(
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Don't get me wrong, I like Shawshank, but it's #1 on IMDB because The Dark Knight fanboys down-voted The Godfather to inflate The Dark Knight's rank.
 
cunning linguist said:
Don't get me wrong, I like Shawshank, but it's #1 on IMDB because The Dark Knight fanboys down-voted The Godfather to inflate The Dark Knight's rank.
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Got it, thanks. How was the number on the Godfather before the down-voting?
9.3 is very high for the Shawhank but I still don't understand why. How can this Shawhank movie be better than a Godfather or the Pulp Fiction or the Silence of the lamb or tons of really good film? Very good movie but c'mon.... they are not in a same league.
 
The Black tower series was a fantastic story told in 5 books I think and if they are going to due it any justice it will need to be a 3 movie set
I think Idris Elba is a great actor but I don't see how he can be cast for this part. One of the main figures in this journey to the dark tower is Susan Dean and the complex relationship she develops with Roland and in large part its because of there difference in color
 
IRIS said:
Got it, thanks. How was the number on the Godfather before the down-voting?
9.3 is very high for the Shawhank but I still don't understand why. How can this Shawhank movie be better than a Godfather or the Pulp Fiction or the Silence of the lamb or tons of really good film? Very good movie but c'mon.... they are not in a same league.
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Godfather was ranked #1 on IMDB for as long as I can remember until The Dark Knight came out and fanboys thought it was the greatest movie ever made. So they simultaneously gave The Dark Knight 10s while giving The Godfather 0s or 1s.
 
renaissance said:
The Black tower series was a fantastic story told in 5 books I think and if they are going to due it any justice it will need to be a 3 movie set
I think Idris Elba is a great actor but I don't see how he can be cast for this part. One of the main figures in this journey to the dark tower is Susan Dean and the complex relationship she develops with Roland and in large part its because of there difference in color
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The Dark Tower and was a seven book series and I'm guessing they won't give the movie treatment to all the books. IMHO the best volumes are 1 through 4 but once Stephen King introduced himself and characters from his other novels in volumes 5 -7, I was a little turned off. There is so much content to cover - especially with Roland's back story which could be a separate movie altogether.
 
It's a 7 book series with an 8th "The Wind Through The Keyhole" written later. Chronologically it's meant to be number 4.5 in the series.
I don't have high expectations for the movie, it's rare that they are ever as good as the book. "The Godfather" is a rare exception.
 
Insidious Von said:
A film version of Stephen King's The Dark Tower has been green light, it is scheduled for release on the American Thanksgiving weekend 2017. The film will be helmed by writer-director Nokolaj Arcel, who's previous credits include the original The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and A Royal Affair. The breakthrough films of Noomi Rapace and Alicia Vikander.

The roles were highly sought after but the casting has been set:

The Gunslinger - Idris Elba
The Man in Black - Matthew McConaughey
Tirana - Abbey Lee

I haven't read The Dark Tower, so I'm assuming the male characters are based on Clint Eastwood and Johnny Cash. For those of you that don't recognize the female lead, she was the pierced peroxide blonde in Mad Max: Fury Road.

"Female Lead" - I don't even recognize the character name. Supposedly she wasn't even introduced into the series until volume 7. The real female lead was Susan Dean.
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As a King fan I've read this series first to last about 4 times. That being said, I am extremely sceptical about this film. Particularly given the choice for Roland and the female 'lead'. As mentioned above, the real lead is Susannah Dean and complex relationship that developed based on the difference of colour between Roland and Susannah will now be moot. I like Idris, don't get me wrong, he's a great actor. I just don't see him in this role and now my first impression is that this film will be very loosely based in the book series. That will not do the story justice. I hope I'm wrong as there is great potential for the story to be transformed into a great film.
 
I have faith in the director, his body of work suggests what he is capable of. While I haven't read The Dark Tower, I do know that Stephen King is a Spaghetti Western junkie.

As for Idris Elba, he has Megalodon chops, he wont disappoint. I suspect that the role of Sasannah Dean is still in the audition phase, so far nothing has been posted.

And I agree with you Iris, it's a boil on the collective ass of The Academy that Michael Clark Duncan didn't get the The Best Supporting Actor Oscar for The Green Mile.

 
Clevon Little Says: "Hey where the white women at".

I'm assuming that Roland is The Gunslinger. I'm also assuming that Nikolaj is switching the colour of the characters for a tauter storyline.

Could this be Sussanah Dean?

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Arcel may have a different agenda in casting Elba as The Gunslinger. For example, the real Lone Ranger was a black man who initially escaped slavery and lived among the Indians, Deputy US Marshall Bass Reeves. CBS Radio whitewashed the historical figure for their radio series. Big Dris could be having a George C Scott moment. Scott played General Turgidson in Dr Strangelove before he portrayed George S Patton. Idris gets The Gunslinger before portraying Bass Reeves.

 
I used to be a voracious King reader and I absolutely loved The Dark Tower series... of course the worst part of it was the waiting... the last books took forever to be completed.
If you've been reading the Game of Thrones series and feel impatient, you have NOTHING on Dark Tower fans... think decade.
Anyway, super excited for the movie, and I like the casting.
Some people think this could be the next "Lord of the Rings" financially, theatrically...
Agreed with above that Shawshank (Rita Hayworth) is the best adaptation of King's books, but a close second is Stand By Me (The Body) Both are from King's collection of novellas called the Four Seasons which also featured Apt Pupil.
Carrie, (the original) would be third for me.
Now if Hollywood could re-boot "The Stand", and elevate it from a TV mini-series to a theatrical release... I'd really appreciate THAT.
 
You would have to do more than one film to do The Stand justice. If I were making The Stand into two films I would cast Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Ehle and Jonah Hill as the leads.

Most of the suggestions are excellent, but the best King films appear to come from his novellas. That's why my picks are The Dead Zone, The Shining and Carrie, they all sprang from majors novels. I rate The Dead Zone No.1 because it's derived from a dense and complex novel. David Cronenberg and Jeffrey Boam must have endlessly burned the midnight oil to get the script right. And who better as Stephen King characters than Christopher Walker and Herbert Lom (The Pink Panther: Inspector Dreyfus).

 
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