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  • LionsFanNJ
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    • Apr 2006
    • 9464
    #31
    Re: Dark Tower movie AND TV series confirmed

    wow that is a big 180 just out of the blue like that. damn. Mus have been in trouble for a long time.
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      • rockchisler
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        • Oct 2002
        • 8290
        #32
        Re: Dark Tower movie AND TV series confirmed

        That sucks but I believe that it will be made some day..
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          • CMH
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            • Oct 2002
            • 26203
            #33
            Re: Dark Tower movie AND TV series confirmed

            Universal now doesn't want to drop The Dark Tower. Instead they are pushing back the start date from this fall into sometime next year. They want to lower production costs which likely means a script rewrite.

            The delays may put Bardem's role in the film into question.
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              • Burns11
                Greatness Has Arrived
                • Mar 2007
                • 7406
                #34
                Re: Dark Tower movie AND TV series confirmed

                Originally posted by CMH
                Universal now doesn't want to drop The Dark Tower. Instead they are pushing back the start date from this fall into sometime next year. They want to lower production costs which likely means a script rewrite.

                The delays may put Bardem's role in the film into question.
                Good news, bad news. Perhaps bringing in people who fit the roles, rather than big names, they could make the movie as is.

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                  • snepp
                    We'll waste him too.
                    • Apr 2003
                    • 10007
                    #35
                    Re: Dark Tower movie AND TV series confirmed

                    If someone would hurry up and invent time travel, go back to get a young Clint Eastwood, you'd be set.
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                      • CMH
                        Making you famous
                        • Oct 2002
                        • 26203
                        #36
                        Re: Dark Tower movie AND TV series confirmed

                        Originally posted by Burns11
                        Good news, bad news. Perhaps bringing in people who fit the roles, rather than big names, they could make the movie as is.
                        I agree with this.

                        Might be better to just find the right actors at 10% the cost and cut the budget that way. I'm not even sure how they can justify giving Bardem a Hollywood figure while he works television for two seasons.
                        "It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace

                        "You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob Neyer

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                          • jfsolo
                            Live Action, please?
                            • May 2003
                            • 12965
                            #37
                            Re: Dark Tower movie AND TV series confirmed

                            Forget star power, like Game of Thrones, the material is strong enough to be carried by a lot of actors and actresses. Get people who are hungry, and can commit to the ridiculous amount of time needed to have a project like this success.

                            I hope I don't offend anyone, but IMO, Clint, at any age, would never work in this hybridized genre of western/fantasy/sci-fi. I don't think he could pull off playing a character so far removed thematically from our typical day to day existence. That he has the physical characteristics of what we imagine Roland to look like is not enough from my perspective. A Icon he may be, but I don't think he was ever versatile enough as an actor to get the job done.
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                              • CMH
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                                • Oct 2002
                                • 26203
                                #38
                                Re: Dark Tower movie AND TV series confirmed

                                I don't find that offensive. I think Clint Eastwood is a phenomenal guy with a great understanding of dramatic timing, but I never saw him as extremely versatile.

                                I always felt that his Dirty Harry was the same guy in his westerns and Million Dollar Baby (as examples). Does he play the heck out of those roles? You bet he does.

                                I don't see Roland as the typical Old West period hero. He's got the guns, the horse, the cowboy hat, but he isn't that guy that's coming into town and shooting down people in a tavern.
                                "It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace

                                "You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob Neyer

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                                  • snepp
                                    We'll waste him too.
                                    • Apr 2003
                                    • 10007
                                    #39
                                    Re: Dark Tower movie AND TV series confirmed

                                    I just always see The Man with No Name every time I think of Roland.
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                                      • CMH
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                                        • Oct 2002
                                        • 26203
                                        #40
                                        Re: Dark Tower movie AND TV series confirmed

                                        Originally posted by snepp
                                        I just always see The Man with No Name every time I think of Roland.
                                        I'll give you that. As I was writing, he was the one character I kept thinking could be Roland if done right. I held back on it because I felt he still had too much charisma or bravado.

                                        I always saw Roland as the shy guy with a witty remark. The one you wouldn't expect could kick your behind. The Man With No Name was making you shake in your boots the second you saw him.

                                        But I'm also getting old so my memory might be bad.
                                        "It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace

                                        "You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob Neyer

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                                          • snepp
                                            We'll waste him too.
                                            • Apr 2003
                                            • 10007
                                            #41
                                            Re: Dark Tower movie AND TV series confirmed

                                            I don't think you're far off. I'm sure my vision of him is skewed by what King said about TMwNN being the initial inspiration/influence/whatever for Roland.
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                                              • Burns11
                                                Greatness Has Arrived
                                                • Mar 2007
                                                • 7406
                                                #42
                                                Re: Dark Tower movie AND TV series confirmed

                                                I always kind of pictured Roland more like William Munny during most of the books (after the first book but not during the flashbacks), but I had the benefit of reading all the books after Unforgiven.

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                                                  • CMH
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                                                    • Oct 2002
                                                    • 26203
                                                    #43
                                                    Originally posted by snepp
                                                    I don't think you're far off. I'm sure my vision of him is skewed by what King said about TMwNN being the initial inspiration/influence/whatever for Roland.
                                                    Then forget what I think. If King said that, I'd lean more to his opinion.


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                                                    "It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace

                                                    "You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob Neyer

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