The Dark Tower started life as a novel series by Stephen King, comprising The Gunslinger (1982), The Drawing of the Three (1987), The Waste Lands (1991) Wizard and Glass (1997), Wolves of the Calla (2003), Song of Susannah (2004) and The Dark Tower (2004). King followed this up with a stand alone side-novel, The Wind Through the Keyhole (2012), and plans at least one more side-novel in the series (about the Battle of Jericho Hill). Events, themes and characters from The Dark Tower also resonate through many of King's other novels, most notably The Stand and Eyes of the Dragon. However, it's considered possible that all of King's novels and short stories take place in the Dark Tower multiverse.
Studious including HBO, Warner Brothers and Universal have previously optioned the books, with J.J. Abrams and Ron Howard both slated to direct at different times and Russell Crowe, Liam Neeson, Aaron Paul, Viggo Mortensen, Naomie Harris and Javier Bardem all considered for roles. Writers including Akiva Goldsman and Michael Verheiden have also been attached. The previous pitches centred around the idea of a trilogy of movies with two six-episode TV seasons airing between the movies, providing approximately eighteen hours to cover the seven main series novels.
The current project for Sony is apparently a single film to get things rolling, with any discussion of either sequels or spin-off TV series on hold until the film's performance can be assessed. Goldsman is still writing, along with by Jeff Pinkner and Anders Thomas Jensen. Danish film-maker Nikolaj Arcel is currently slated to direct. Sony have an aggressive release date of January 2017 in mind, although this is likely to change as production is not yet underway and normally a year is required for post-production alone.
4 comments:
"and plans at least one more side-novel in the series (about the Battle of Jericho Hill)."
Do you have a Source for this? Would be great if its true, but I have heard nothing about this before.
Yes, it's in the Rolling Stone article linked in the entry.
Idris Elba is a fantastic actor, but no way do I see him as Roland.
He is too solidly built regardless of the fact that he also isn't black.
Never going to happen. The first book (SPOILERS) ends in a conversation... after the protagonist brutally sacrifices a pre-pubescent boy for his own selfish purposes. I could see DT junkies eagerly moving on to the next movie in the series, but the average moviegoer is NOT going to pursue this past "The Gunslinger." Far more interesting would be an HBO or Showtime series.
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