I don't know anymore. Go on then, I guess. There are other worlds than these.

edit: and there are six gunslingers! :(

I want this to be decent, i'm not even hoping for 'good', so bad, and yet fear I shall only wind up disapointed.

With large parts of the novels taking place inside people's heads (literally) I've never imagined a good way to make this story into a movie. I think the best we're going to get is a super stripped down action flick.

I honestly hope that is what they try for. If they try to do the whole thing or even part of it in some funky way it will just end up a mess.

I haven't been watching all the hype for this movie. I take it from the trailer that this is just the first of a series, if it's successful? I haven't seen any mention of Eddie or Susannah.

Lol, there has been no hype. There was some arguments over a black Roland but other than that, they've been flying pretty low under the radar. First trailer for a movie coming out in 3 months. I don't think this is going to be a series. Or successful.

I thought Elba was a good choice for Roland, as an actor, but the way it would change the dynamic between Roland and Susannah is tricky.

I always imagined the story as looking like A Fist Full of Dollars, but I can see trying to make Roland's insane skill with his pistols more Matrix Bullet Timey. Eddie, Susannah and Jake could be the new Neo, Morpheus and Trinity by the end of the series.

Yeah, I don't think they're planning on a series. Also, no mention of Eddie or Susannah on imdb.

The first book was just Jake and Roland as I recall. That's why I was thinking they are hoping for a series, if this first one is successful. It may go the way of The Golden Compass, though, and never get past the first installment.

Yeah, but the trailer really looks like it's combined the first book with the drawing of the three, minus two people and 5 more books. I could totally be wrong but everything i've been reading and seeing this past year looks like this is a one shot... "adaptation."

Standard King cinema, iow.

And even with Roland being black, it still looks like they managed to make it all about the white kid. :P

Well, the white kid was pretty important, even getting semi resurrected, plus all Roland's drawn out angsts over his first death. But if they just drop Eddie and Susannah all together, that'll be a big disappointment. How often do we get to see black women in wheelchairs as kick-ass action movie heroes? Or heroin addicts who find strength in family and friends to kick their habit and help save the world?

I'ts been a very long time since I read any of the Gunslinger novels, so I honestly don't remember anything about them, but I was certainly hoping for more of a brooding, dystopian western vibe and less pan-dimensional action flick.

The premise that was first pitched years ago was that Dark Tower's filmed franchise would exist as a series of both full length films and seasons of a tv show, alternating with eachother to do the complete story. Also, there were hints that this isn't a movie version or reboot, but that the whole thing is a direct sequel to the final book. If you read past the part where King told you to stop reading, there was suggesting of a giant, slowly changing cycle to the story. Rumors are that Roland is now going through the films with the Horn of Eld.

That franchise thing has been dead for years. Which is unfortunate, given how well Marvel has demonstrated it can work.

That's what I heard, too, that its a different cycle than the one in the books, hence the little changes.

Come to think of it, I believe that's what they are doing with The Magicians adaptation, and that's been great so far.

If they play this off as a direct sequel, and they make it clear that Roland has the Horn, then I'm still cool with what I've just witnessed.

Otherwise, this could get ugly VERY quickly, and the legions of King fans- which you know includes a lot of film critics- will not be kind. They view the Dark Tower series as King's ever-evolving masterpiece, arguable "ending" or not, and fucking with that will get you a world of critical hurt.... and a whole lot of internet wrath.

This looks pretty bad, unfortunately.