The Dark Tower

[eddysnake]

http://www.slashfilm.com/dark-tower-tv-series-air-hbo/

Movie still looking for a home, but the tv part is going to HBO. Great News!

Gazer first mentioned HBO’s involvement in a recent interview with MTV. “We’re going to do [The Dark Tower] with HBO,” he said. “We’ll do the TV with HBO, and we’ll do the movie with… to be determined. We’ll do it right.” The premium cable channel seems about as ideal a home as I can imagine for the series, given that HBO has few restrictions on violent or sexual imagery. There’s also the fact that ratings matter much less for HBO than they do for other networks, which gives them more freedom to make sure both seasons will play out as planned.

[Froggy]

they should just do the whole thing on HBO

[obhave]

This is fantastic news

[PensFanInDC]

If GoT is any indication then I am uber excited

[shafnutz05]

lol I was just about to post this article this morning...AWESOME!!!!!!

[shafnutz05]

[Froggy]

Wind Through the Keyhole comes out in two weeks. Why do I have this sinking feeling its gonna be terrible?

[eddysnake]

Wind Through the Keyhole comes out in two weeks. Why do I have this sinking feeling its gonna be terrible?

read some reviews on it, apparently it's them sitting around a fire and Roland telling flashback stories? Not sure I can get back into that now

[shafnutz05]

I am generally not a fan of books that are like "mid-quels" in a series.

Spoiler:

It's hard to read the book knowing that eventually, Eddie, Oy, and Jake will all die.

[Froggy]

And it takes place between 4 & 5, right? Part 4 is already 90% flashback. If these are read in order based on chronology, that is really going to bog down the main storyline.

But I guess king had to write it or the universe would explode or something, right?

[Froggy]

Just bought wind through the keyhole digitally. Only 15 pages in, sooooo not sure if it's just a straight up cash grab yet

[Froggy]

Ok, got about half way through. Not particularly enjoying it. It's not only a flashback, but a flashback inside a flashback. And you could argue since the book takes place between wizard and wolves, it is a flashback inside a flashback, inside a flashback.

At 300 pages, this SCREAMS "I don't have one story good enough to make into a novel"

[shafnutz05]

Ok, got about half way through. Not particularly enjoying it. It's not only a flashback, but a flashback inside a flashback. And you could argue since the book takes place between wizard and wolves, it is a flashback inside a flashback, inside a flashback.

At 300 pages, this SCREAMS "I don't have one story good enough to make into a novel"

This is the biggest thing that has immediately turned me away from this book. Wizard and Glass was probably my least favorite of the Dark Tower series, because I am generally not a huge fan of the "prequel" stuff. Granted, it did a lot to explain how Roland came to be, but it's not my cup of tea. At this point, I already know what ultimately happens to the entire ka-tet. I don't really care about another flashback, even if it is well-written.

I have actually liked most of King's releases in the last five years or so. Cell was great, Duma Key was meh, etc.

[Froggy]

at least W&G was basically ONE story. and i thought it was a pretty good one at that. i think what bothers me about this one so far is just that the structure is really clunky. i'll put this in spoilers, i guess, but nothing really spoilery plot wise...

Spoiler:

ok... they are walking along, and then a storm comes. then they decide to wait it out in this building. so roland tells this story about how when he was a kid, he was chasing after a werewolf. then halfway through that story, flashback roland tells the wind through the keyhole story to some kid in the flashback.

like i said, im only about halfway through, and i have no idea how it resolves, but like i said... clunky storytelling



oh, and duma key is waaaay underrated

[shafnutz05]

No, I definitely enjoyed Duma Key.

Loved Under the Dome and 11/22/63

[Froggy]

duma key really reminded me of Insomnia, which is another waaaay underrated king book. i think it would have been looked at more fondly had it not been tied so closely with the dark tower mythos.

[PensFanInDC]

I thought the 1st half of Cell was awesome. King usually takes a few hundred pages to get going but someone eats the face off another character 4 pages in so he chose a different route with that book. The 2nd half was terrible IMO and the ending was atrocious.

[shafnutz05]

http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/04/24/eyes-of-the-dragon-movie/

ohmygawd

Hopefully this turns out great. One of my favorite King novels (and one that many people don't know about)

[PensFanInDC]

http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/04/24/eyes-of-the-dragon-movie/

ohmygawd

Hopefully this turns out great. One of my favorite King novels (and one that many people don't know about)

I was just going to post this. Its scyfy so who knows? I loved the book and the fact that it has Randall Flagg in it makes it even better.

[Froggy]

Don't bother with wind through the keyhole unless you HAVE to read every word related to the series. It only added one interesting thing...

Spoiler:

Roland's mother knew she would die by Roland's handif she returned to Gilead, but did so anyway, because that was her ka. Which makes sense, because if that hadn't have happened, Roland would have never chased marten through the desert, and thusly would have never saved the universe(s)

[eddysnake]

Don't bother with wind through the keyhole unless you HAVE to read every word related to the series. It only added one interesting thing...

Spoiler:

Roland's mother knew she would die by Roland's handif she returned to Gilead, but did so anyway, because that was her ka. Which makes sense, because if that hadn't have happened, Roland would have never chased marten through the desert, and thusly would have never saved the universe(s)

thanks, just saved me from reading the book!

[shafnutz05]

Don't bother with wind through the keyhole unless you HAVE to read every word related to the series. It only added one interesting thing...

Spoiler:

Roland's mother knew she would die by Roland's handif she returned to Gilead, but did so anyway, because that was her ka. Which makes sense, because if that hadn't have happened, Roland would have never chased marten through the desert, and thusly would have never saved the universe(s)

thanks, just saved me from reading the book!

Ditto.

[Froggy]

I guess the stories are reasonably well told. I actually thought the Little Sisters Of Alluria story was a bit better. It just felt like a ripoff because it was like 50 pages of "present" Roland & Co., 150 pages of flashback Roland, and like 75 pages of a story unrelated to anything.

It's like if in the middle of W&G, teenage Roland pulled a Peter Griffin, and told the entire story of Eyes of the Dragon.... "this reminds me of this time a guy spied on a wizard"

I think this would have been better served as two short stories, because I think both flashbacks are worth reading.. But calling this a novel, and furthermore a DARK TOWER novel seems really cheap.

[PensFanInDC]

Russel Crowe now taking the lead as Roland.

Link supplied by TDT Facebook page and is overloaded at the moment:

http://www.sohood.com/2012/08/russell-crowe-set-to-take-over-the-dark-tower-lead/

[shafnutz05]

Not a bad choice. Would prefer Viggo Mortensen personally.