The Dark Tower

Butch, book series worth checking out?

I remember reading those in highschool. I didn't like the stand as a book or as that crappy mini series

I loved the stand, just hope they don't fuck up one of my favorite book series.
If you've seen the mist, you can see david (thomas jane) painting the movie poster for the dark tower at the beginning.

It's not possible to make a good movie out of the book series. There's just too much shit going on. But I gotta say The Dark Tower is probably the best book/series I've ever read by an American author, besides maybe the Song of Ice and Fire books.

If you read any books this year, read these.

Fun while it lasted...thank god, it would have been shitty anyways...

Yes, once again a big-time adaptation of Stephen King’s book series The Dark Tower, a sort of sci-fi horror western, has fallen through. The first time it was J.J. Abrams trying to put together a project, this time it was Ron Howard. Howard actually got kind of far, going so far as to cast Javier Bardem in the lead and everything. But now the enterprise – the three movies, the spin-off TV series – has crumbled and Universal has officially shut the whole damn thing down. I guess it’s just too big a project to tackle. That or it’s, y’know, cursed. I mean it is a Stephen King story. They have trouble adapting lots of his stuff! It’s spooky!

I think the coolest part of the series is how many references there are to characters/settings/situations from other books King wrote outside of the Dark Tower Series. He incorporated so much into it, it's just amazing. There would be no way to capture that in the movies, which is why I think a movie version of the series would suck no matter what.

Maybe Stephen King just doesn't feel like playing himself in the movie.