The Dark Tower

Each book purchased for motion pictures has some individual quality, good or bad, that has made it remarkable. It is the work of a great array of highly paid and incompatible writers to distinguish this quality, separate it and obliterate it.

What kind of mental illness passes over somebody to say: "You know that extremely popular and beloved book series that was read by a generation of people? Let's make that into a movie, but we will race change the beloved main protagonist from a Clint Eastwood-looking gunslinger to a black guy for no real reason whatsoever".

>>9871150

JW: I find that when you read a script, or rewrite something, or look at something that's been gone over, you can tell, like rings on a tree, by how bad it is, how long it's been in development.

NG: Yes. It really is this thing of executives loving the smell of their own urine and urinating on things. And then more execs come in, and they urinate. And then the next round. By the end, they have this thing which just smells like pee, and nobody likes it.

JW: There's really no better way to put it.

- Joss Whedon and Neil Gaiman

>>9871315

Were they talking about the new Star Wars movies

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>>9871150

>>9871383
Probably not, but they might as well have been.

>>9871150
I thought he was following the man in black?

>>9871150
>Feel me in. I'm just starting to read the series right now after watching the movie.

This is a mistake.

I haven't seen the movie yet but it's basically a young adult adventure like Divergent or Hunger Games. The novels have a paranoid, filthy, nightmarish King style that absolutely cannot be translated onto screen. Especially not in a PG-13 format. Just pretend the movie doesn't exist.