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Originally Posted by SmootSmack
Yeah I've brought this up in the past. I think when talking about Charlotte (Charlotte Lewis).
But I think you're thinking of the wrong Dark Tower. The Dark Tower I believe you want to bring up is CS Lewis' The Dark Tower
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This interesting that I just found on Wiki about the SK's Dark Tower coming to the big screen.
Film adaptation
IGN Movies has reported that a
film adaptation was in the works; whether it was for a movie or a television series still is unknown.
J. J. Abrams, co-creator of the television show
Lost, was supposedly attached to produce and direct.
[11] Carlton Cuse and
Damon Lindelof, who co-created the show
Lost with J. J. Abrams, optioned the
Dark Tower series from King for a reported nineteen dollars, a number that mysteriously recurs throughout the
Dark Tower series of novels.
[12] According to issue #923 of
Entertainment Weekly, King "is an ardent supporter of the desert-island show and trusts Abrams to translate his vision" into a film franchise with Lindelof being "the leading candidate to write the screenplay for the first installment."
[13] In a July 2009 interview with C21 Media, Lindelof revealed that he and Cuse had indeed optioned
The Dark Tower's rights, but said he was wary about committing to such an ambitious project: "The idea of taking on something that massive again after having done six seasons of
Lost is intimidating and slightly frightening, to say the least."
[14]
King also reported that he had turned down long-time collaborator
Frank Darabont, creator of such films as
The Green Mile and
The Shawshank Redemption, after he had asked to do the film.
Roland as depicted in the opening credits of another Stephen King movie,
The Mist.
Multiple mock trailers have appeared on YouTube. Also, the official Grand Prize winner of Simon & Schuster's (King's Publisher) American Gunslinger contest,
[15] "Roland Meets Brown",
[16] by Robert David Cochrane,
[17] can be found there.
In King's 2007 film
The Mist, the main character, David Drayton, can be seen painting a movie poster with Roland in the center, standing in front of a trans-dimensional Ghostwood door, with a rose and the dark tower to each side.
In April 2009, both Abrams and Lindelof revealed that they would most likely begin adapting the series when
Lost concludes in 2010.
[18][19]
In May 2009, rumours emerged that
Christian Bale was the top contender to play Roland.
[20]
In November 2009, Abrams stated that he would not be adapting the series. During an interview with
MTV, Abrams made the following comments: "The
Dark Tower thing is tricky. The truth is that Damon and I are not looking at that right now." Furthermore, in an interview with
USA Today, Damon Lindelof stated that "After working six years on 'Lost,' the last thing I want to do is spend the next seven years adapting one of my favorite books of all time. I'm such a massive Stephen King fan that I'm terrified of screwing it up. I'd do anything to see those movies written by someone else. My guess is they will get made because they're so incredible. But not by me."
[21]
In April 2010, it was announced that the books will be adapted into a trilogy that will be written by
Akiva Goldsman and directed and produced by Ron Howard