Ah yes, another shitty adaptation of Stephen King's shitty books.

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That kid better not ruin everything

>>82341509
This isn't the 80s. Kids ruin everything now

>>82341509
>'it's you, you're a gunslinger!'
>'I saw it in my dreams'
>'You'll love earth'

given, movie's already ruined before him thugh

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>>82341485
>BLACK
fuck i'm triggered to shit

>>82341762
>>'You'll love earth'
This part made me cringe.
Why do they have to add shitty one liners like that in every movie?

>>82341485
WE WUZ GUNSLANGAS

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>>82341509
He's going to be quiping the whole time. Screencap this post.

Why is Roland a nigger?

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>>82341485
Stephen King? Seems more like an edgy version of Narnia chronicles or Endless story or any kidmovie where they go to fantasyland.

>>82342080
Because the movie's called 'the dark tower', not 'the pale pencil'.

>>82342486
muh dik

>>82341485
this looks like a porno flick desu

>>82341485
The mist was allright. This is gonna suck tho. Too many cool ways to load a gun to pander to the brainless action hero fans.

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>>82341485
>>82341485
Who should we cast for the lead to make it accurate?

>>82341509
Elba already does what a bummer

How will the racist handicapped woman be racist if Roland is black in this? That was a really important part of her character and their interactions.

putting aside any qualms I had about the movie before seeing the trailer

the trailer itself is just horrible.. Jake is terrible and any interaction between Jake and Roland is terrible (you'll love earth, I'll kill him for both of us, Jake pushing Roland on in his quest)

It's exactly like >>82342139, a kid movie where the kid goes into a dream world and pushes the hero on.. there's a pure hero and a pure evil villain, which is not the case at all in the dark tower books

and It just seems all over the place.. I liked the reload he did with his hand, but other than that there was nothing

Why isn't Idris Elba also playing the kid? Racist schlock.

>>82342597
Susannah and Eddie are completely cut, Tirana, Arra and Pimli are main characters (and pimli a ninja orc by the looks of things)

Jake doesn't die 500 times, not even once, because he's the hero of the story and gets a happy ending

>>82342657
wtf man. So they cut out basically the best stuff


Why do people do this when adapting books to film/tv?

>>82342558
viggo as roland
mcconaughey as walter is fine
jake needs to be younger and more handsome
eddie should look like a young clive owen
susannah I don't know
donald sutherland as the crimson king
peter dinklage as oy
tom hardy as blaine

>>82342964
Because films are for retards

>>82342964
>So they cut out basically the best stuff
nah.. they cut out everything and are making an entirely new thing using the Dark Tower IP to get money all with the excuse of 'it's a sequel' despite barely anything changing between runs

I think their starting off point was Susannah's character is way too complicated.. let's scrap that story and see where we get from there

>>82342657

This is probably going to be a bad film.

>>82342657
First politically correct casting choices just like in Bates Motel, now cutting characters altogether? What went wrong?

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>>82341485
Where the fuck is Roland's hat?

This is what they should have done

The Gunslinger and Drawing of the Three as Movie 1
Wastelands, Movie 2
Wolves of the Calla, Movie 3
Song and DT, Movie 4

Wizard and Glass takes the form of stories Roland tells the ka-tet as they journey.

There, I just fixed Sony's fucked movies for them.

>sony

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

>sony

>>82342048
Eddie Dean's the quip dispenser in the books.

>>82342600
>there's a pure hero and a pure evil villain

We needed to simplify things to make sure the goyim understand the message:

Pure hero = black man
Pure villain = white man

See even the dumbest goy will be able to understand! Sometimes you have to make sacrifices for the sake of education but rest assured it's all for the greater good hehehe

>>82343227
Wrong, they should have taken it to HBO and done a series.

Chronicles of Amber adaptation when?

>>82343313
This might have worked too, but I'm just scoping movies here. Besides if we make it a TV show there's going to be fucking filler, which is the last thing we want.

>>82343384
Right after they actually make a good series of movies for His Dark Materials.

>>82341485
ehh, fuck you guis.
I like it.

>>82341485
More like the dark and the tower imrite guys?

>>82341509
The weird thing is they bot aged him up and made it less violent and graphic.

>>82341485
>man in black

did anyone else get confused by this?

>>82343227
>Missing out Wizard and Glass, the best book of the entire series. And giving it as flashbacks

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>>82343282

>>82343589
The book is like one big flashback so it works

Does elba ever do anything except playing the bull that fucks established characters while white nerds watch?

>>82343283
Oh good lord they're going to fuck up Blaine the Mono so hard. Eddie quipping it to death was my favorite part of the series.

>>82343697
They won't ever do Blaine and Mono because this movie is going to bomb fucking hard

Sony can't make a franchise to save it's life (or stock price).

>>82343313
For the life of me I don't understand why they didn't get Netflix to fund this. It's exactly the kind of thing that would do really well there, and a series would give it the space and time it needs to be fleshed out and done properly.

Also, I have to say it, but why the fuck didn't they hire Eastwood's son to play Roland? Roland was originally based off of Eastwood's character in one of the dollars movies, and his son is basically a younger version of him. Probably not that great of an actor, but at least it'd be exactly what we would think of when we think of Roland.

I don't hate Idris for getting the role and I think it'll be... fine. Sony having their wretched claws in this though is the first and largest sign that it'll bust.

Why turn it into a generic Young Adult drama with a massive budget and good actors to intentionally make a shit movie. WHY? You can't justify this.

>>82343933
>I don't hate Idris for getting the role and I think it'll be... fine. Sony having their wretched claws in this though is the first and largest sign that it'll bust.
Judging by them turning the nightmarish monster house into a generic YA future-tech house I'm not holding my breath.

It seems bizarre that they aged Jake up and toned down the horror elements. This movie looks tame as all fuck.

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>>82343024
>peter dinklage as oy

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>>82343933
I mean, is it that he looks too young? I also get that he shouldn't get the role for looking like his dad, but still. It's kind of on the wall.

Not that it breaks the movie for me. Just... curious.

>>82342600
You cant force copypasta, faggot.

WHO DO YOU CAST TO PLAY
>Roland Deschain

>>82343966
Because they didn't want to make a faithful adaptation for unknown reason.

>>82344002
It looks like a marvel film. It looks tame and predictable and will probably have the same beats as the Captain America movies.

>>82343217
He never had one in books except during this young ages, you ignorant fuck.

>>82342558
Literally just swap the leads. MM could play Roland similarly to Rust Cohle, and IE could play the man in black similarly to his character in beasts of no nation

The director has done nothing of note and I don't know why he got the gig.

The Dark Tower will be another one of those movies thar will come and go from the theater but will succeed on home video.

>>82342558
Also, it's a meme at this point but Aaron Paul for Eddie

>>82344127
GIGANTIC

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>>82344288
fuck no

>>82344274
Because fuckers saif he's a gigantic fan of DT books and even learned english to read it in original. He also promised to make it as close to the series as possible. But you know, it's easy not to keep your promises.

>>82341485
Fuck, my wife watches every movie with Idris, so I'll have to watch this too, on the opening fucking weekend. God, why did he choose that role? This movie looks like shit, what are you doing Idris?

>>82343625
Beasts of No Nation. He fucks little boys in that

>>82344369
Does he really fuck them?

Shit gonna have to give this a watch

>unzips dick

>>82344095
wrote this here when I watched the trailer, then noticed that this thread wasn't the main thread so copied it to the other thread

it's all the truth

They made this look like that shitty angel movie Legion or I, Frankenstein

>>82344396
Yeah man, he's the kiddie fucking General of a child army

>>82343625
>the bull that fucks established characters while white nerds watch
you do realize idris got cucked irl?

>>82343024
Blaine?

>>82344554
What happens in his personal life has no bearing on what he represents to the public.

>>82344623
He's a big choo choo

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>mfw that ricochet shot

>>82344417

It will make $50 to $80 million box office tops because Sony cheaped out and went with a C-list director instead of giving it the DaVinci Code treatment with an A-list director and production team.

Oh cool, it looks like a bunch of the books mashed together into a mess of a movie. I'm so glad another series I love gets destroyed.

>>82344735
>$50 to $80 million
nah, it will make at least $200 million, and they don't really have a big budget

>>82343227
Roland's stories would interrupt the flow too much. Imagine watching the homeless guy stealing Jake for Tick Tock, only to then have Roland go off about falling in love

>>82343732
And to think they have the rights to Wheel of Time as well.

>>82342657
What the motherfuck? Susannah and Eddie are cut? I was also wondering how they were going to make her racist against a black Roland. Ugh. Well, I guess they solved that. Just rewrite and change the whole motherfucking lineup. Pisses me off.

>>82345096
>>82344935
God damn Honky muh' fuh's ruinin' everthin

>>82344359
>He also promised to make it as close to the series as possible.
He fucking lied, this shit isn't anything like the books.

>>82341906
You can't forget the face of you father if you don't know who he is.

>>82341485
why wasn't he holding the gun sideways though

>>82343024
>Tom Hardy as Blaine
Fucking perfect. Now they gust need Aidan Guillen as Tick Tock

>>82342657
>just smashing all 7 books into one big mess

Makes you really appreciate WB's patience with DC movies.

>>82343217
CEO Schlomo Shekelstein: Cut the hat! We can't see the star's face, and thay won't test well. And Jake needs a love interest, or this project is over!

Akiva: Yes, my Lord. As you bid.

>>82345088
>they have the rights to Wheel of Time as well.

Yeah about that...
They got the guy who produced Agents of Shield to make the WoT TV show. And the company that's making it made a WoT pilot two years ago that gave Robert Jordan cancer and killed him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUQE0-G_GeU
https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/wheel-of-time-tv-series-sony-1202390897/

>>82345212
>Do you feel in charge, gunslinger?

>>82345274
How does Akiva still get work in Hollywood?

>Stephen King Cinematic Extended Universe TM (R)

>>82345355
Looking at his (((name))) should reveal the answer.

I think we all have forgotten something...
Will Susan and the Mayor still be white? This can be very crucial to the filmmaker' endgame

>there will never be a Dark Tower anime produced by Madhouse with Shinichiro Miki as Walter's VA and Joji Nakata as Roland's
fug

>>82345147
No shit, Sherlock.

>>82345466
Susan is white. Some chick called Alex McGregor.

inb4
>Scots white

I'd watch it for free on my computer while shitposting

>>82342657
>>82345096
Of course they cut Susannah. They can't have a crippled white woman calling Idris Elbar a nigger.

WHY IS EVERYONE FUCKING BLACK WHATS WRONG WITH PEOPLE

>>82343425
not if you do each book as a season, you don't need filler, stephen king wrote some himself with the wind and the keyhole or whatever it was called

>>82345333
Didn't know it was the same company behind that garbage pilot.
Thought the rights went back to the wife and she was just trying to make a good show.

When it rains it pours.

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>>82341485
All signs point to this movie being as related to the books as a cup of cold water with a single bean in it is to a french roast hand picked by Jesus.

>Removing two of the main characters
>Complete elimination of the race dynamic
>Complete abandonment of the actual PLOT OF THE BOOKS
I am in physical pain. This is my favorite series of all time, a masterpiece that comes once in a generation, and modern Hollywood is going to take a big fat steaming shit all over it.

>jake walks thru a tech portal in a not-haunted house and meets a healthy 10-fingered roland, alone without a katet, and they're not experiencing a duality of memory like they'd already met before

I hope this movie only makes $19. I am not wasting my popkin money on this garbage.

Oddly enough I'm okay with Idris Elba as Roland. He's a top tier melanin pick and could portray Roland's personality.

someone explain the race dynamic to me in the books please

>>82346605
Wealthy black girl who became wheelchair bound after being pushed in front of a train, losing both her legs and developing disassociative personality disorder

One personality is a nice, sweet southern black girl with all accompanying pleasantries and charm.

The other is a cock crazy white-hating psychobitch that accuses Roland and Eddie of trying to rape her and she proceeds to try and murder them while they're unconscious

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>roland is black

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAA well that should make stephen cuck king happy as a pig in shit

>>82346605
http://darktower.wikia.com/wiki/Detta_Walker

>>82345139
Odetta is that you girl?

>>82343697
Eddie can only use inoffensive PC jokes now

>>82343509
god I wish.

the guy saying "did you tell him that whoever walks with you dies by my hand?" seems to directly contradict my admittedly hazy recollection, which was that the man in black taunted roland by saying that ultimately he (roland) was just using the boy as a tool and would discard him as such when the time came

which roland did, and which provided an annoying little niggle and questioning of his humanity

>>82348237
questioning of his own humanity, that is

>>82348237
good guy has to be completely good
bad guy has to be completely evil

that's how the movie works

Under the Dome was good.

>>82341485
>The Dark Tower is the body of god
>When Roland gets there God tells him his destiny is to find the tower over and over again
>sends him back to the desert in pursuit of the man in black

>Stephen King is an actual character who is chosen by God to spread the story of the Dark Tower

>>82343589
Wizard and Glass is going to be a TV series apparently

>>82348292
I don't think that I would even have questioned whether roland was completely good before this. It was just that he didn't believe the kid (or his world) was even "real"

I get that this is a shortcut that's being taken because by definition a movie cannot afford the same time to bringing the viewer to understand and appreciate the nuances of roland's character in the same way, but this interpretation of it seems especially inelegant.

>Idris Elba playing... Idris Elba

WE

>>82345755
>>Complete abandonment of the actual PLOT OF THE BOOKS

Main plot looks pretty in tact to me friendo.

>>82341485
>The Dark Cock

>Roland sacrifices Jake in the first book
>Roland kills the guy that kills Jake in the second
>Jake is brought back in the third
>Walter is eaten alive by Mordred
>Jakes died again when saving Stephen "the hack" King.
>Patrick the son of Roland Erases the Crimson king
>at the end Roland reaches the tower and restarts all again the the horn of eld

>>82350195
>>Patrick the son of Roland Erases the Crimson king

I think you're mixing some characters up.

>>82350195
Gosh you green texted a bunch of spoilers!

>>82350224
Patrick Danville is Susan and Roland's unborn child. Read "Imsomnia"
>>82350265
won't happen in the movie anyway

>>82343029
THIS

Fuck movies, film is a dead medium

>>82341485
>shitty books have shitty adaptation
Color me surprised.

WE

I honestly have not watched a movie in years. Unless you count seeing TFA opening night once and Seeing R1 and walking out half way through

>>82345147
>>82345504
How do you know it was all his fault, movie adaptions get bastardised all the time by jews for the sake of money.

Look at all the superhero movies, they tried to pull the same shit with Deadpool.

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Please, /tv/.

If you haven't read the books, read them. Don't see this movie, especially if it's your first exposure to the Dark Tower.

No one asked for this. This is going to be much, much worse than the adaptation of Eragon. And the cucked fanbase on leddit is going to defend it, too.

Pic related, it's King's best couple.

>>82342600
man in black is clearly evil

>>82350385
WUZ

Was that leaked script anyway confirmed to be real?

>>82343217
The books ends after 7(?) parts that he finds his fuckin hat. You only read the comic, did you?

>>82344252
This, exactly what I thought. Also not cause IE is black...

He just seems like he can play a bad guy better then MM, MM seems to nice.

What a fucking joke

go fuck yourself, sony.

Stephen King, i really hope your city gets invaded by a horde of Muslims and they rape you and your family, your piece of shit

The Dark Tower series is my first exposure to literature. While people at my time went nuts about Harry Potter, i had bought the Gunslinger and fell in love with the series. while the series is far from perfect, god, it got me OBSESSED about the setting and the characters

and now we have THIS abomination, this ISN'T Dark Tower, it's a Hollywood kids movie about some kid adventure in a alien world

"THERE ARE PLENTY OF GUNS IN EARTH XDD"
God, i'm so mad, jesus christ

>>82350852
>Stephen King, i really hope your city gets invaded by a horde of Muslims and they rape you and your family, your piece of shit
He had barely anything to do with this abomination. He just said "okay" a few times and accepted his paycheck.

>>82345755
Is it really that good of a book series ?

>>82350982
Yes, the end is dumb but the first 3 books are the Kino of books

>>82350852
>"THERE ARE PLENTY OF GUNS IN EARTH XDD"
I remember the first time Roland came to this world to buy bullets, he almost had a heart attack

>>82351050
And then he fucked up a store owner shot at cops and god meds, I love this shiet

>>82350982
It's not like a work of art, but it's a super fun ride. The characters are fun, and once the JRPG party is formed, and they fight the Monorail things get super whacky.

A lot of people hate books 5, 6, and 7.
But I feel they all fit and as long as you don't take them goddamn seriously, like everyone else seems to do and accept the weirdness for what it is, example, robot wolf dr. Dooms who throw highly dangerous Harry Potter snitches as deadly weapons, then you'll have a fun time.

>>82350852
I wouldn't really blame Stephen for this mess, it's common knowledge that he tends to keep his nose out of people adapting his work. There are exceptions but they're few and far between.

>>82350980
>>82351101

Oh boy, I'M 100% SURE that he gave the greenlight for this bullshit, fucking sellout

God, i want to punch this fucker in the face

>>82351162
Steve is like Lucas when it comes to his creations....

Anyone remember The Shining remake he did?

>>82351101
The fucker watched it and said it has his seal of approval.
He was also on set and helped revise the script a bit by cutting most of Roland dialogue.
It's also his fault.

>>82351015
>>82351093
I will give it a read then

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>>82341485
Ah yes, another movie made in Hollywood which does not concert me, i could buy ticket to see it or not, but fuck they are making it, best to complain about some product on the internet like the fag i am, Ah yes fucking cucks.

>>82350982
>God Tier
1 and 2
>Top Tier
3 and 4
>Mid Tier
7 and 5
>Shit Tier
6

>>82341485
>The Dark Nigger

>>82350982
>>82351236
The entire series goes off the deep end around book 4. It's still an entertaining read but it's stupid as fuck and has its head way up its own ass.

>>82351093
My problem with latter books is that the 5th book is unnecessary long and doesn't move the story that much. The 6th book is completely pointless and could've been merged with the 5th one but King really wanted another long cheque in his pocket obviously. The 7th is ok but has some dumb plots in it.

>>82351225
Source? I remember reading somewhere he had seen the film and liked it but I don't remember anyone saying he was on set revising the script.

>>82351252
1 and 2 are best Roland, after that he becomes weak and not because of his right hand, those four that join him are cancer.

>>82341485
Stephen kings books suck and he's always involved in making these movies so let's just accept he's a fuck hack. His short stores are good but he's overrated af.

This is gonna be a shit dark tower adaptation but it'll probably be an ok action film. I'll get high and watch it. I can't stand mathew mattmac though, he's a shit fucking actor.

>>82351252
Switch 2 and 3 to make the tier proper.

>>82345088
I tried to start reading Wheel of Time couple weeks ago. Everything was just so cliche. Writing was serviceable at best. Switched over to starting the Hyperion Cantos and it's fucking amazing.

>>82351341
>he's always involved in making these movies
Nope, he didn't have anything to do with Kubrick's adaptation of The Shining.

Friendly reminder that in the book Roland rapes a fat woman and makes her abort, also he kills a whole town and blows some toddlers head for stabbing him.

>>82351431
That's probably the reason he hated it so much.

>>82343282
I was irked by the needless and seemingly forced diversity but he looks like a fine fit for the role
Looks pretty cool but why do they go to new york? They don't do that until, what, book 6? He's clearly not in someone else's body while visiting like in 2

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>>82351431
Probably why it was an actual good movie.

>>82351486
And the whole fight lasts at most a single minute.

>>82345755

i tried rereading dark tower recently and even the books that were the good ones aren't as good as i remembered

>>82351453
We all know Hollywood version of Roland is going to be cookie cutter good guy bullshit as usual.

>>82351553
I think the first book is incredible. It's got this almost dream like feeling to it.

>>82351606
This guy knows.

>>82351050
>>82351085
I personally loved the part where Roland drank soda for the first time and was like WTF IS THIS SHIT GIVE ME MORE. And then he choked on icecubes. ANd of course that wont be in the movie.

>>82352123

And how he loved Tooter Fish. And yes, none of that wackiness will be present.

>We will never see this >>82351486
>We will never see Jake first death scene
>We will never see Roland sacrificing Jake for the tower
>We will never see the monster shrimps cutting Roland fingers
>We will never see Eddie and Roland naked standoff against the drug lords
>We will never see both Roland and Susannah raping the demon

>>82352352
>We will never see Eddie and Roland naked standoff against the drug lords
this is probably the most captivated I've been reading anything in my life

>>82352459

All of The Drawing of the Three is fantastic, just the right balance of weirdness and drama and with how badly Roland gets fucked up early it actually feels like the characters are in real danger.

>>82352352
Imagine the naked bath house fight in Eastern Promises but a million times better.

>>82352540
This. Book 1 and 2 are my favs.

>>82344365
cuck

>>82344127
Viggo Mortensen

>>82351341
>he's always involved in making these movies
Nope.

>Firestarter
After John Carpenter was fired he didn't have anything to do with the production of this movie. He openly hates it.
"Firestarter is one of the worst of the bunch, even though in terms of story it's very close to the original. But it's flavorless; it's like cafeteria mashed potatoes." - Stephen King
>The Lawnmower Man
He has always openly hated this movie. It was originally called Stephen King's The Lawnmower Man but he forced the studio to drop his name from the title.
>Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
He tried to get Kubrick to cast someone other than Jack Nicholson but Kubrick ignored him.
>David Cronenberg's The Dead Zone
He just patted Cronenberg and the screenwriter on the back.
>The Running Man
I'm pretty sure he didn't have anything to do with the production of this movie.
>The Night Flier
He didn't have anything to do with the production of this movie. The director wanted him to make a cameo but he was too busy.

And there are plenty of other examples. King keeps an eye on adaptations of his work but it's rare for him to significantly contribute to the production.

>He hated Nicholson as Jack Torrance but says it is "okay" to Idris Elba as a Roland Deschain

>>82353112
>Kubrick ignored him

Based

>>82342657
Eddie and Susannah aren't in the first book people of course they won't be in the first movie

>>82342558
Clint Eastwood's son

>>82353252
Kubrick never even read the book. Because Kubrick was a genius and King is a hack.

There's a reason why The Shining is the most respected of all the Stephen King adaptations, because Kubrick ignored the shitty source material and made a decent movie instead.

Darkie Tower is gonna suck.

>>82342597
Easy, she's gonna be white.

Hollywood can only portray white people as racist because...Jews.

>>82345480
I'd kill for this desu

>>82342558
It's probably just me, but I've always pictured Michael Wincott as the MiB.

Literally anyone else could play Roland and it would be an improvement. Clint Eastwood's son would look the part, but from what I've seen his acting chops are questionable.

>>82341485
The series that had me cumming buckets without even touching myself when Sussanah was fingered by R'hea or whatever her name was; and had me crying like a bitch when Eddie died

has been turned into a fucking generic fantasy action quip fest

>>82352352
>>We will never see both Roland and Susannah raping the demon
Was I the only one that thought that scene was hilarious as shit?

>>82353892
>Kubrick never even read the book.
You don't know what you're talking about. The reason Kubrick agreed to adapt The Shining is because he really liked it. In interviews he called it a great horror novel.

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>>82341485
Why do I get a Last Action Hero vibe from this?

>>82343217
He has lost his hat before the first book even begins.

>>82354069
>and had me crying like a bitch when Eddie died
same

>>82353892
>Kubrick never even read the book.
Stephen King was told that Kubrick had his staff bring him stacks of horror books as he planted himself in his office to read them all: "Kubrick's secretary heard the sound of each book hitting the wall as the director flung it into a reject pile after reading the first few pages. Finally one day the secretary noticed it had been a while since she had heard the thud of another writer's work biting the dust. She walked in to check on her boss and found Kubrick deeply engrossed in reading The Shining."

>>82354028
>tfw imagining book 1's conversation around the fire between Roland and Walter acted out by their respective VAs
Can some richfag fund this?

>>82354069
Dude.
Eddie was Quip King.
Wtf are you talking about?

>>82345755
>>Complete elimination of the race dynamic

I see people post this but it's kind of bullshit

The only actually important races here are that Susannah's black and Eddie is white, Roland's race isn't that important (that said, neither in the Man in Black's, and the suggestion of reversing the two actors would've been cool).

>>82354886
Eddie was, but Jake wasn't

That said, trailers don't say anything any more

>>82356140
>Roland's race isn't that important
Confirmed never read the books

>>82356186
I read the first three again fairly recently, and no, it really isn't

All that gets cut is some racist yelling at Roland from Detta, but you can literally come up with anything else properly offensive

>>82356186

It was important for half a book where Detta screams at Roland for being a honkey mother fucker but then his race is never important again.

>>82356257
>>82356635
>Detta hates whities
>has to travel with two of them
>somehow unimportant and making one of her travel companions black will have no impact on this dynamic

>>82356675

You do realize that "Detta" disappears in book two right?

Elba and especially MM look fine.

I'm more concerned why they decoded to make it a combination of all 7 books and a sequel

>>82356675
literally make her hate the dude for any other reason

maybe he acts too white even though he's black, making him even worse

it's really fucking minor

>>82356778
>it's really fucking minor
t. some pleb that doesn't fully appreciate the books

>>82344288
Good call

>>82356800
the point is that detta hates them all for some reason, and she never needs much of a reason - the actual reason doesn't matter, the hate and instability does

spoiler: the books aren't about race

>>82344288
Didn't he audition already, or something? It's his dream role

>>82345139
I am currently listening to the audio book, the narrator does odetta so well

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>>82348299
>Stephen King is an actual character who is chosen by God

So, anyone with patrician taste is a heretic?

>>82356984
Someone commented he made a good Eddie and Paul said he'd do it.
Doesn't seem like they are including them in this movie though. Because, ya know, people were clamoring for a combination of The Gunslinger and the last 3 books

>>82341485
HOL UP

YOU FINNA SAY WE

SUM KINDA

GUNSLINGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>82356800

Address my point faggot. >>82356720

>>82350487
God damn it I hate illustrations.

I've never read the Dark Tower books but this movie looks very shit and turns me off ever reading them.

Are they actually worth it? I was mildly interesting in reading them before I saw the trailer to this.

>>82357229
Yes

>>82357229
The first book is alright but I wouldn't bother reading beyond it.

>>82357229

1 is pretty much a guaranteed read. It's short, interesting, and you can stop there if you want.
If you're going to continue 2 and 3 are also good and you may want to stop there.
4 is just backstory and is unnecessary but not bad.
5 is where it starts to get silly and just off
6 and 7 are actively bad.

>>82357229
1-4 are very good. Top tier fantasy books.

>>82357127
no

>>82357295

I accept your apology then.

>>82357229
The movie makes it out like capeshit. Definitely give the first 2 a chance. The first 1 is a little abstract and loose while the second sets up the tone, world, and charactetd

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>>82341485
1st trailer doesn't do any good for me except it being cool. Hope there is more to offer in 2nd one & in the actual whole thing.

>>82343024
>No one cared who I was until I was put on the track

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>for a few dollars more is my favorite western
>really enjoyed dark tower 1-4
>mfw watching the trailer

Is this what rape feels like

>>82341485
It might as well not even be The Dark Tower. The story is so butchered I won't go see it. And that's forgetting the horrible characterizations.

At least with the movie people are actually discussing this series for once

>>82341485
we wuz protaganists and shit

>>82353637
None of this looks like the first book though. Literally nothing in the trailer implied that even a small amount of the first book would be used. It's absolute shit.

>>82357606
I guess it focusing on Roland going after Flagg and jake meeting Roland in midworld is like the first but that's about it

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>>82357008

>stephen king actually wrote a story where his fictional character who he already killed off and brought back to life sacrifices himself a second time, this time to save the irl stephen king from a truck accident,because stephen king in the books is literally a prophet and the fate of every universe relies on his survival

>>82357680
yep.

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>>82341485
>all these plebs fighting over some shitty western dark fantasy

>>82357757
Fucking weaboos just have to make everything about them

>>82357757

Hello, please be going back to /a/ with the rest of the children.

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>>82341485
>mfw I'm actually looking forward to this and I'm going to watch it and probably enjoy it

>>82345147
It's probably the Sony executives fucking everything up.

Didn't Sony think they could make a billion-dollar franchise out of several Toby Maguire/Andrew Garfield Spiderman crossovers? The people who are controlling this thing are actually retarded, and I don't know what deal they made to obtain the DT rights but holy fuck Stephen King must be ready to kill everyone involved in this shit adaptation.

>>82357757
>>>/a/ustism

>>82357814

hey idris. your acting skills are subpar

>>82354332
I'd watch it.

>>82357287
>>82357292
Do people really like 4? It was incredibly dull to me, none of the flashback characters are interesting

>>82357826

this has been in classic development hell for like a decade, JJ abrams shelved this to make star trek and then it's been tossed around to a shitload of other people that didn't want to do it.

>>82351252
>>Top Tier
>1 and 4 and 7
>>Mid Tier
>2 and 3 and 5
>>Shit Tier
>6
Fixed

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>>82358044

>7
>top tier

>>82358044
7 has good ideas but it could go through 2 or 3 edits

>>82357945

going back to gilead and seeing it crash is pretty sick. dark tower lore is better than the actual plot

>>82358151
I kind of liked it more when it was just referenced vaguely - Susan especially is better as a concept than a character, because she's just an extremely dull love interest.

>>82357945

On its own it's a decent fantasy/romance novel. It's a bit long and adds nothing to the overall story but it's ok on it's own right.

>>82358229
Yeah I like 4 quite a bit. Actually delivered on western/fantasy

>>82358077
People don't like 7 because of the ending. Otherwise it's really good.

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>It's a "big bad of the King universe that has been hyped across half a dozen novels as the ultimate source of evil in the universe gets eaten by a retard spider baby" episode

>>82358027
Probably because adapting the first book would be difficult as hell to do. The second book is what sets up the world well.

The books, if you did them in chronological order, would be hard to develop as films.

>>82358733

It would be easy enough to roll the first two books into a single movie, the first book would really only need to be the first quarter to a third of the movie depending on length. Cramming all 7 into one is a mistake.

>>82358469
nah the walkin dude is just a lieutenant of his. the crimson king gets erased by an autistic magic artist kid while he throws exploding harry potter snitches at roland

>>82358862

Except the Crimson King isn't really mentioned in the other books the way Flagg is. He was always supposed to be the final boss.

>>82352679
I'm a cuck, yes, but that movie still looks like shit.

>>82351252
accurate

roland started out as a badass then slowly becomes pussified by the retards he is forced to travel with. his world begins desolate and destroyed then not so much

>>82341485
where does he get his bullets from?

>>82358955

He made his own as much as possible at first, but in book 2 they go to New York and he robs a gun store and takes a shitload.

>>82358879
flagg directly mentions hes a servant of the crimson king in the first book

>>82358988

Other King books, not the Dark Tower.

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>mfw no lobstrocities

>>82341485
if the book is shitty and it's a shitty adaptation, does that mean the movie will be good?

>>82358447
>People don't like 7 because of the ending
Guess again retard. The entire book is a mess.
>Stephen King wrote himself into his story as some prophet that must spread the story of the dark tower
>actually refers to himself as a wordslinger
It's trash anon.

>>82359258
I'm sure they'll be in there. It's just a trailer.

>>82359466

Well considering there is no Eddie or Detta there is no Drawing so presumably there is no beach at all.

>>82351225
>It's also his fault.
not really, they had the rights to the books for a decade now. He didn't had anything to do with the movie, other than saying "nigger or no nigger I don't care just get me my money". That's what King is interested. Money. Do you have any fucking idea how many king adaptation there are? Hollywood is already running out of king's book so they're starting to make remakes. Firestarter just got announced a few days ago. IT is coming soon. I'm sure King can't keep up with these fucking adaptation himself. Maybe he needs the money because he's building a nuke to kill drumpf.

>>82359378
World War Z was a shitty adaptation of a shitty book but the resulting movie was still bad so it's hard to say.

my wife's son says this is the best trailer he's seen. can't wait to go see it with him.

>>82359634
is he mulatto? Please telle me he's mulatto.

roland is black

fuck I'm triggered and I'm not even racist

>On May 18, 2016, Stephen King tweeted a photo of the Horn of Eld with the caption 'Last Time Around', referring to the end of the final book and revealing that the upcoming 2017 film is a sequel to the book series rather than a direct adaptation.

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>>82342558
I will never not say Karl Urban

>>82341485
THE NIGGER TOWER! GOING TO FLOP SO HARD!

>>82358044
Top tier
1,2,3,4
Mid tier
5
Absolute trash
6,7

>>82359671
yes he is. he said maybe his dad is like the gun slinger, he's only 11 and hasn't seen his dad in years.

I thought the dark tower was referring to his dick

pretty disappointed desu senpai

>>82359736
good good, I hope you're a good dad to him. I hope his biological father visits your wife from time to time, you know, it's good to have a nice relationship with his real father

>>82359811
Why can't it be both? Use your imagination cuck anon ;)

>>82359698
We all knew that. Cool idea but still an excuse to make this a hodge podge reboot.
Hopefully Flagg or jake (which somewhat seems possible in the trailer) at least will acknowledge the novels.

>>82359825
thanks man. i try my best, it wasn't easy but its a very open relationship, not open with other partners, just she tells me about her past alot. less mystery more history!

>>82359952
>not open with other partners
well that's disappointing, every wife deserves to be pleasured properly. You need to start finding her some nice bulls before she leaves you.

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>>82341485

>You have forgotten the face of your father
>I never knew the face of my father

>>82359435
It had some lame stuff but 80% of it was oretty good. It's a 1000 page book you've gotta cut the man some slack.

>>82359715

>ranking 5 above 6 and 7

BREH

They're all bad, but 5 is by far the worst.

>>82360380
>It had some lame stuff but 80% of it was oretty good
No, going to have to disagree. It's more like 80% was bad and 20% was good.

>>82360380
There's good parts of 5 6 7 but 7 definitely has the most potential and even feels like the first at times. 6 is just a weird short bridge between 5 and 7 but it probably works better than either.

I take 4.5 5 6 7 over Dark Tower 8: Blacked Capeshit Remix edition but it's hard to judge a trailer

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Did anyone else notice the IT reference in the trailer?

>>82351341
nah its going to be mediocre better watch Priest much better the dark tower inspired action movie.

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>>82361204
Also, check the Overlook Hotel from the Shining

>>82359014
He appears in Insomnia. Disguised as some sort of evil fish, fighting an old man

>>82361908

Neat.

>>82343024
>dinklage as oy

put a smile on me face

>>82358044
this guy knows what's up

>>82344684
For your silly questions

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>>82351486
Then he killed some filthy muties after that

The Mist was literally Kino. Except for the shitty CGI

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>>82345480
I've been thinking for years that a Dark Tower anime would be great. It's probably the only way you could faithfully adapt it.

Susan will be killed by old racist white men for getting blacked

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>>82341485
I always imagined randall flagg as bob

>>82365524
It would be pretty neat to have a The Stand adaptation (preferably TV show) and get Matthew Mcconaughey to play Flagg

>>82341485
People love them, so they must be good.

The only thing that excites me more than The Dark Tower series is American Gods!! ^_^ *hops up and down with joy*

hello

>>82351481
It's apparently a sequel to the books

>>82369955
hello

Wait...

IT'S LITERALLY IDRIS?

*inhales* *leans back* *breathes in*

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAABHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHSHHHSHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHHAAHHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAH

As someone who knows nothing about The Dark Tower, this trailer was fucking awful generic as fucking Hollywood crap. Even for a trailer it was awful.

>>82369982
It can't be, because in the books Roland was white.

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are the books any good?

>>82359825
I met her on Tinder.
I'm 26, she is 34. Her profile was just one closeup pic of her eye, it said only "I have 30 tats and I plan to get more ;) , 3 dogs, and mother of 1 amazing boy who is my world"

Movie looks like complete garbage. Like a freaking young adult adaptation, or like, cowboys vs aliens part 2.

Elba is the only cool thing here, even mcconaughey is highly underwhelming. And that kid.. is he even in the novels? I only read the first one like 15 years ago so i can't really remember.

>>82370889

the (((idea))) theyre floating is that the quest for the tower happened many times, and that this movie version is another iteration. hence dindu roland.

So is randall flagg in this movie? And if yes dis they remember to make him an asian transgender woman

>>82365191
>OST by Shiro Sagisu who finally gets his shit together and manages to top his work for NGE
Alternatively, the Texhnolyze OST would be a perfect fit