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 I think McConaughey has actually been "confirmed", but the DT series has been started and died more times than I can remember I think Idris Elba is a good actor and would do a great job, plus it would make idiots mad so that's good too
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that's cool, I thought it got canned years ago
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Feb 9, 2016 01:25
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I read somewhere that Oy will be cgi and voiced by Bill Murray
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This is good news. Hopefully they'll cast J-Law as Susannah.
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Feb 9, 2016 01:27
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I don't think Steven King has ever wrote anything better than the first Dark Tower book. Shoulda kept on the cocaine and triple packs of smokes a day and died a literary legend instead of drifting into comfortable ehhhhh
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Feb 9, 2016 01:27
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Yeah King could have gone out as a Literary Rockstar but he chose life and now we suffer through bland Mr Mercedes crap that young, drug addict Stephen King would be embarrassed by
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Feb 9, 2016 01:30
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i dont care
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Professor Shark posted:
fun fact: in the books king describes roland as looking kinda like him if idris gets cast I want king to wear blackface for the rest of his life to make it real
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Feb 9, 2016 01:59
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Elba's great... but McConaughey? Too loving old. Its a worse match up than Keanu as Spike for live action Cowboy Bebop (which he backed out of because he's too old for it despite being otherwise ideal).
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Grand Prize Winner posted:fun fact: in the books king describes roland as looking kinda like him "The Black man fled across the Desert, and the Gunslinger followed.” has a different connotation imo
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origami posted:"The Black man fled across the Desert, and the Gunslinger followed.” nah they're apparently casting the black man as the gunslinger. "The White man fled across the Desert, and the Gunslinger followed." Quentin Tarantino to direct
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I like Idris Elba but whats gonna happen to the scene where the racist black caricature lady starts yelling about eddie sucking on roland's white candlestick??
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i never read any of that but i dont think either of them are right for the roles.
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I'm sure the expensive Hollywood writers can figure something out
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Obviously you probly lol while getting mad paid but it's gotta be a little weird when they float you a role and you're a black actor and you know that some part of it wasn't motivated by oh what a great actor this guy is but instead a room full of sweaty jewish marketing men getting hot and bothered by subverting expectation to generate social conflict dollars
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DiHK posted:Elba's great... but McConaughey? Too loving old. Its a worse match up than Keanu as Spike for live action Cowboy Bebop (which he backed out of because he's too old for it despite being otherwise ideal). E: Oh right, Walter is the man in black, Eddie's the dip. I got confused because King is so imaginative with his character names. EE: wrong button.
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Feb 9, 2016 02:15
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i hope the final scene is pig-faced stephen king, in his normal clothes amd stuffing his face with machos, laughing directly at the audience, through the camera
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I hope this thing gets canned. I just can't see it working out. I would love to see a successful adaptation of the series, but I'm not holding my breath. I think they should test the waters with The Wind Through the Keyhole first, and then the flashback book (four) and see if they'll get the interest for a massive push on the series.
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Shaquin posted:I don't think Steven King has ever wrote anything better than the first Dark Tower book. Shoulda kept on the cocaine and triple packs of smokes a day and died a literary legend instead of drifting into comfortable ehhhhh i thought he was a drunk
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why are they just remaking the Dark Tower? are they redoing Fellowship and ReturnOf The King movies or just the 2nd one? seems weird to me
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Doctor Dogballs posted:why are they just remaking the Dark Tower? are they redoing Fellowship and ReturnOf The King movies or just the 2nd one? seems weird to me
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katlington posted:i thought he was a drunk nah, he did a gooood bit of research. Read Misery.
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Professor Shark posted:the DT series has been started and died more times than I can remember
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Feb 9, 2016 02:32
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And Benedict Cumberpatch as the Crimson King.
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phasmid posted:And Benedict Cumberpatch as the Crimson King. I'm so sick of this fuckers weird head jesus christ britain if you are gonna shove an actor out of your fog beswaddled womb every decade or so for mass consumption could you at least make sure their cranium is loving human shaped tia
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Thing that gets me about the Dark Tower books is how did Roland get so good at shooting things if bullets were so difficult to make in his universe? Did he practice all day with CS:GO or what?
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Somebody summarize dark tower for me so I can have an informed opinion when this subject comes up again.
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Berious posted:Thing that gets me about the Dark Tower books is how did Roland get so good at shooting things if bullets were so difficult to make in his universe? Did he practice all day with CS:GO or what? he got good when bullets werent as rare
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oh and im excited idris is starring. hes really good at acting
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katlington posted:i thought he was a drunk "Stephen King's [i posted:Gunslinger[/i]"]
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TontoCorazon posted:Somebody summarize dark tower for me so I can have an informed opinion when this subject comes up again. Something about giant lobsters. There's a train.
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Mescaline is the loving Cadillac of psychedelics. Everybody likes to beat their chest about LSD but guess what turd just like weed nature has provided you with better and safer materials.
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TontoCorazon posted:Somebody summarize dark tower for me so I can have an informed opinion when this subject comes up again.
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The two books following the first dark tower novel are readable but decidedly products of an author who has been far removed from the vibrant and drug addled youth who wrote the first and is now in a somewhat rote space as far as their authorial voice goes. Past those two and it's garbage all the way down.
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Feb 9, 2016 02:44
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how pawgs are gonna be in the movie drshark
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I almost forgot, they also have a talking dog mascot that has a scooby doo style speech impediment.
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Stephen King is trash
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Oh yeah and the bad guy for like 5 out of the 7 main Dark Tower books gets killed by a newly introduced spider guy who then dies from food poisoning or something.
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TontoCorazon posted:Somebody summarize dark tower for me so I can have an informed opinion when this subject comes up again. For its fans, the Dark Tower books are like that Star Trek TNG episode where they discover a race of people which can only communicate exclusively through references to their own cultural narrative history. "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra," et al. For example: "Sharduk, when the beam was found." "Lobstrosities (dad-a-chik, dad-a-chum), the makers of necessity who lurk in the deep" "Astin and popkins, the Doors' sweet succor." I could go on...
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