MelissaBaby
Wordy Bitch
- Joined
- Jun 8, 2017
- Posts
- 7,754
Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
Rarely does Hollywood get anything right. Odds that they get this and Dark Tower right are slim to none.
If I had to guess which one they get right based on cast it is no contest. Dark Tower.
U read them?
Why did studios engage, then pass on it so many times since 10 years?
Female black lead.
U read them?
Why did studios engage, then pass on it so many times since 10 years?
We're talking about Dark Tower.
Are you a Stephen King fan? I'm not trying to sound bitchy when I say this but I'm guessing no since you haven't read the books. Some might say they are a culmination of many of his other works (The Stand, Salem's Lot, It, etc....). There are so many references to other books, but it wouldn't really 100% exclude a non-King reader. The setting of the novels is quite complex too though - western, post-apocalyptic at times, dystopia. It's very expansive and I can easily see how it would be hard to make such a movie (hence the large level of pessimism among the fan base). It would also likely take at least a handful of movies to cover the series in its entirety.
I am honestly very excited about it though. Not every adaptation is a huge flop (The recent series The Handmaid's Tale was amazing.). I just think sometimes the purists expect it the adaptation to be adhered to in every aspect when it's not always possible. I actually haven't read A Wrinkle in Time, but I am looking forward to The Dark Tower and am just going in knowing it isn't going to be 100% like the book.
It is a female black lead in the books.
I suppose I may enjoy it more without the potential disappointment from not being a good adaptation. Since a good adaptation is rarely the case.
I read none. actually, I don't read books... I know i should, I suppose.
Post-apocalyptic dystopia.. wow. Thanks for the nice summary. I'm sure you're correct.
U read them?
Why did studios engage, then pass on it so many times since 10 years?
I read Wrinkle in Time in middle school, long before Oprah pimped books. It was among the few assigned reading selections that I loved.
Fun fact: my mom had to go to a parent/teacher conference because the teacher was concerned that I was reading Stephen King at my young age (12).![]()
I read Wrinkle in Time in middle school, long before Oprah pimped books. It was among the few assigned reading selections that I loved.
Fun fact: my mom had to go to a parent/teacher conference because the teacher was concerned that I was reading Stephen King at my young age (12).![]()
They used to have a bus in Bangor that did Stephen King tours. They stopped for a while, but may have brought it back.
It goes around town and shows you his house, then some of the locations that he used in his books.(Especially IT.) For the big finale, they go across the river to Orrington to where he lived when he wrote Pet Sematary. You used to be able to go back in the woods to where the actual pet cemetery that inspired him was located. I believe there are new owners now, and it's not open to the public anymore.
My kind of tour.