02-14-2007, 08:01 PM | #1 | |
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JJ Abrams to direct Dark Tower series?
JJ Abrams, creator of Lost *edit* Felicity and Alias:
http://movies.ign.com/articles/764/764210p1.html and here: http://digg.com/television/JJ_Abrams...k_Tower_Series Also... Steven King's pending stories to movie list: Quote:
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02-14-2007, 08:37 PM | #2 |
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All of those stories except Creepshow and 1408 tie in the Dark Tower some how...it's a shame though how if the DT series ever became a movie series, going to back to watch older Stephen King based films will have all those little tidbits removed (except The Stand TV miniseries, which had a fucking hella awesome Randall Flagg).
I'm also kinda choked that the plot for "The Signal" is almost identical to "Cell" |
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02-14-2007, 10:06 PM | #3 |
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The Mist is a short story if I'm not mistaken, one of his earlier ones. But you're shittin me, they're really going to make a DT series? Damn, first the Song of Ice and Fire on HBO, now this. Rock.
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02-15-2007, 12:11 AM | #4 |
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The Mist, if it's the one I'm thinking of, was a damn good short story.
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02-15-2007, 01:14 AM | #5 |
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With the escaping mist from the military base? Gots aliens eating everyone outside?
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02-15-2007, 03:06 AM | #6 |
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That's the one.
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02-15-2007, 04:27 AM | #7 |
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Actually, the 'mist' in the The Mist is actually whats known (in Mid-World, the world of the Gunslinger) as a 'Thinny', one of which is chronicled in Wizard And Glass. It causes people to ascend to the higher levels of the Tower and gives them the ability to see creatures that exist normally but whose existance we cannot acknowledge on the lower levels of the Tower. See: Insomnia for a good look at how the 'level's work. As well, check Black House for ideas on 'level gates' (not 'world gates' like those seen in the Dark Tower series and It)
But yes, The Mist is the best story in Skeleton Crew, but only slightly better than 'The Raft' in the same collection. |
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02-15-2007, 04:50 AM | #8 |
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He doesn't have anything to do with Heroes.
Felicity, Alias and Lost. |
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02-15-2007, 05:58 AM | #9 |
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I liked the first 3 dark tower books. The 4th was it's own thing, and the 5th 6th and 7th seemed to kinda spiral out of controll.
I have almost no other experience with King though so maybe I'd enjoy the later books more otherwise. |
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02-15-2007, 06:02 AM | #10 |
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The first 4 are pretty gold and yeah it starts to turn down, though I don't think VII was that terrible, but I also wasn't flabbergasted by the appearance of Patrick Danneville, having read Insomnia twice
That pretty much the only reason I read King however, just to get every scrap of his universe tied together. Not only Dark Tower novels, but places like Derry (Insomnia, It) and Castle Rock (Cujo, Christine, Needful Things, Liseys Story) all tie into some crazy King universe. Frankly reading a 600 page book with about 4 tiny references to the DT series or characters makes me cream my pants |
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02-15-2007, 12:15 PM | #11 |
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i've been waiting for this shit since i was like 10.
hopefully they won't fuck it up. |
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02-15-2007, 01:06 PM | #12 | |
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02-15-2007, 10:28 PM | #13 |
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I just finished the Dark Tower series. Personally I think they're going to ruin it. Though I do look forward to the comic series set between the Mejis and Jericho Hill. As for the books themselves I think 3 was a snooze fest and the deaths of characters were pretty lame (VI and VII). Especially the Jake (alas, ka is a wheel.)
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02-15-2007, 11:55 PM | #14 |
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This some novels being made to films?
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02-16-2007, 11:50 AM | #15 |
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DT series is great although after wizard and glass things go off the boil a bit. Last book is a return to the earlier stages, but like all Stephen King books, the endings just seem a little... bleh, like it's not really been fully thought out.
As for the comics and tv series, noooooooo! It has cock up written all over it. |
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