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Rando
Mar 11, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
UPDATE: not a good movie



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK9LpM7qmJY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZC5FoJ-cPU

August 4th 2017

The story of Roland Deschain, the gunslinger, a questing knight pursuing a wizard to the ends of a dying world.

quote:

The desert was the apotheosis of all deserts, huge, standing to the sky for what looked like eternity in all directions. It was white and blinding and waterless and without feature save for the faint, cloudy haze of the mountains which sketched themselves on the horizon and the devil-grass which brought sweet dreams, nightmares, death. An occasional tombstone sign pointed the way, for once the drifted track that cut its way through the thick crust of alkali had been a highway. Coaches and buckas had followed it. The world had moved on since then. The world had emptied.

Idris Elba as Roland Deschain


Matthew McConaughey as the Man in Black


Directed by Ron Howard Nikolaj Arcel, screenplay by Akiva Goldsman, based on the novels by Steven King (and apparently simultaneously an adaptation AND sequel to the novels)

quote:

There they stood, ranged along the hill-sides, met
To view the last of me, a living frame
For one more picture! in a sheet of flame
I saw them and I knew them all. And yet
Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set,
And blew “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came.”
--- Robert Browning

Rando fucked around with this message at 05:37 on Aug 26, 2017

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Rando
Mar 11, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

VanillaGorilla posted:

This isn't being directed by Ron Howard, now - Ron was in the mix when it was still being worked as a weird cross-media thing. This version is directed by Nikolaj Arcel, who I think is most known for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo?

I'd actually feel better about it if it was Ron Howard.

oh poo poo, your right. thanks.

Rando
Mar 11, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Old news from September but I missed it: I guess the plans for a TV series are still going ahead, based on Wizard and Glass

http://ew.com/article/2016/09/21/dark-tower-tv-series-stephen-king-wizard-glass/

a more recent article from April where Ron Howard basically says "maybe"

http://www.tvguide.com/news/the-dark-tower-tv-series-ron-howard-confirms/

Rando
Mar 11, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
I care.

Rando
Mar 11, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Fried Watermelon posted:

Second trailer dropped on July 10

thanks, added to op.

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Rando
Mar 11, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Movie didn't "suck" so much as it was a half-hearted hand job given and received by disinterested parties.

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