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UPDATE: Media Rights Capital is in serious talks to take on The Dark Tower after Warner Bros declined to make what potentially amounts to three feature films and two limited run TV series. MRC’s Modi Wiczyk is a big fan of the Stephen King novel series, I hear, and the company is eager to capitalize on the positive momentum they got from developing and financing the Seth MacFarlane-directed summer sleeper hit Ted with Mark Wahlberg. MRC next has the Neill Blomkamp-directed Elysium with Matt Damon, and the company has the capital to back an ambitious project like The Dark Tower with director Ron Howard eyeing Russell Crowe as the gunslinger Roland Deschain and his quest to travel through a Western-style world woven with magic to find the Dark Tower, mankind’s only hope. Akiva Goldsman adapted the book and is producing along with Brian Grazer and Stephen King. Even though MRC was unavailable to comment, I expect this deal to make quickly. MRC has a distribution arrangement with Universal, but it’s unclear whether that studio would release the film. Universal developed it but passed on making the project before it moved to Warner Bros.
EARLIER, 5:02 PM: Warner Bros took the easy out and has passed on The Dark Tower, the ambitious multi-platform adaptation of Stephen King’s novel series. After getting an overhauled script from Oscar winning scribe Akiva Goldsman, the studio just balked on the project that Ron Howard wants to direct with Brian Grazer, Goldsman and King producing, and with their A Beautiful Mind star Russell Crowe being eyed to play the gunman Roland Deschain. Warner Bros follows Universal, which also bailed on making the project.
It’s something of an odd move for Warner Bros, given all the talk out there that with Harry Potter and the Chris Nolan-directed Batman movies over, the studio badly needs some franchise blood and keeps swinging and missing with its attempts to mint franchises out of its DC Comics stable of characters like Green Lantern and Jonah Hex. I just interviewed the author; King knows his way around a good story, and here is how he described what is waiting for whoever steps up to fund this movie: “The Dark Tower, to me, and I’m not unbiased because I’m the writer on this thing, but to me it looks like gold on the ground waiting to be picked up.” You need guts to find gold in this precarious time in the film business, and Warner Bros ultimately didn’t show any here. Peter Jackson is lucky that Bob Shaye ran New Line when he was down to his last chance to get The Lord Of The Rings made. If he was out pitching that movie today, I doubt that Jackson would have been able to persuade Warner Bros to say yes to what became a billion dollar franchise. I hope that Howard and his posse reload and try again, but this is a major setback for them.
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The gold is at HBO where this can be done as a 20 hour event series the same way HBO made Band of Brothers and The Pacific. It’s HBO or nothing.
I’ll go a step further; not only should it be a series on HBO, to avoid casting issues (the actor for Jake inevitibly aging, for instance) and to really explore and illustrate the dynamic world of Roland, I think it should be animated. Not in a bright, Toy Story or Lilo & Stitch kind of way, but a dark, edgy way. Anime, without the cliche character models.
As animated sounds like a good idea, not everyone likes dark animated series. I would watch it if it was made into a movie with Russel Crowe, but I wouldn’t watch the animated version. The books were awesome, and I thought to myself when reading them that they would make a great movie!
An animated Dark Tower would be a desperate last ditch effort to save a dying project. Any one in talks to take over this franchise better forget about the theatrical component and go straight to cable.
Yes I completely agree an anime series would fit the dark tower. They cant chop it up or leave out segments the whole story would be lost, no movie could be long enough and like you said the characters ageing…I hope they do it
No, lets not. We want to see the world of Roland, not through a kiddie dream world, but as if we ourselves could enter through a doorway to Midworld and touch it.
Why do people who have never seen good animation always go the kiddie route with it? All animation is not kiddie. Broaden your horizons.
I agree with the preferably not animation tone, but if it comes to poor casting choices (for the love of all that is right and good NOT RUSSELL CROWE) I’d rather have the animation.
Well spoken
As long as they dont film the last 2 books the series should be ok,
As a King devotee (he’s the reason I started writing in the fifth grade), I have to disagree. The last two were to of my favorite of the series. He ended it perfectly. It was bittersweet, but to end it any other way would have felt wrong and un-King like.
I was wondering if I was the only one disappointed by the last two books.
ALL DARK TOWER NOVELS SHOULD BE FILMED!
I think animated would be pretty cool. I’m thinking about the Dark Tower series done in a similar way as A Scanner Darkly or Borderlands, if you know the movie and video game (respectively)
hell noooo not animated!! this needs to be done right!! it will parallel “lord of the rings” if done correctly!
LOTR, while being a great movie, was a disastrous, epic failure as a book adaptation, i’d hate to see it happen to DT. As 30-40% of LOTR was cut, almost 30% of it was changed, making DT into a movie that parallels it would be a slap in the face to King’s genius and all the effort he put into writing it. I have to say that his other works that were made into movies had left same bitter aftertaste, let’s all remember ending of “The Mist” (disgusting) or the whole of 1408 (ugh!), i’m still hoping that he’d have more respect to his epic about the gunslinger than to let director butcher it the way they did to all of the above.
I totally agree daemon. thanks. Oh yeah,and NO RUSSEL CROWE!!! WTF are they thinking???
totally agree, and if not that then animated like spawn was on hbo, sadly alot of people roll their eyes when they hear animated but with the budget that would be needed for live action to be as good as readers imagined it when they read it it might never be made
Yes, I agree they have the kind of artistic integrity that this series deserves. Even Game of Thrones is great(IMO). I don’t agree with Russel Crowe playing Roland. That’s a strange choice.
Thank you, I am so tired of hearing that Russell Crowe should play Roland….where did that idea even come from??
The guy’s just not likable. We’re a long way from Gladiator. This whole project sounds cool but I’m less interested in it with Crowe.
It would pain me NOT to watch this if made into a movie. But if they cast Russell Crowe that is a definite possibility. I can’t stand the guy.
yeah I think An HBO version would be a better way to go .
Brilliant idea, and I hope the stories remain true to King’s narrative when translated to the screen, as there is so much going on and with so many links to his other stories. I have read the Dark Tower books several times, and enjoy them hugely. Maybe a feature film of the new book.
I also wonder about Russell Crowe being chosen for Roland. I see him through the narrative and pictures in the books as being more Hugh Jackman.
Feel I just want to say, I am a different Candi to the one who posted saying she would watch it with Crowe earlier in the month! I didn’t realize there was another commenting. Don’t want you all to think I am bonkers or something!
I know it`s a few months late but i just got back on the net and no i don`t think you`re bonkers but think hugh jackman could be more of a gunslinger than flying swords or arrows crowe.
While reading all these I was thinking Russell Crowe definitely not, but I couldn’t really think who would ‘be’ Roland, but you’ve nailed it. Yes Hugh Jackman would be perfect!!
I think Jim Caviezel would be perfect for it having just watched Person Of Interest.
HUGH JACKMAN!!!???!!!?? RUSSEL CROWE!!!??!!!??? What are you people thinking!!???!!!?? He already screwed up Wolverine. Why give him Roland!?!?!? Im thinkin more like the lead dude on Hell On Wheels.
YES YES YES!!! I was wondering if I was the only one thinking that he would be perfect!
The very first episode of Hell on Wheels when I saw Anson Mount I immediately thought of Roland
Russel Crowe? Hugh Jackman? Did everyone forget the end of the first book, where Roland ages into a much older man. Plus, they nicknamed him the big tall and ugly. Hugh and Russel are both average height at best. They need an actor that can get away with fewer lines, that can look both ancient and just merely old at the same time. King had Clint Eastwood in mind when he wrote the character. Therefor they need an actor with Mr. Eastwood’s qualities. It’s only a shame he is a little aged to play the role. Whenever I think of Roland, I picture the Eastwood of Unforgiven.
What they need is to stop suggesting flavor of the month actors. Pick up somebody that has been around a while. Someone with experience, to imprint on a cast of mostly unknowns. They need a cast that loves the story, and isn’t just doing it to make themselves famous.
I think Lucas Bryant would make a decent Roland. Sure a little young, but he pulls off the world-weary feeling quite well in Haven. Plus, there is an inroads into another Stephen King piece. (admittedly, it would also be all too easy to cast Eric Balfour as Eddie Dean, but if I had to pick one actor from Haven, it would be Bryant.)
From there, Jamey Sheridan from The Stand. He’s played Randall Flagg once, I say put him in the role of the Man in Black. He’s got the chops.
Put the cast choices together, see if they get along, and mesh well. Do it right.
As for the small rumblings about having Viggo play Roland… He is a good actor. Would do the roll justice, but people would only see Aragorn, and boy would they b**ch. However, he would do alright in, say, the role of Steven Deschain. We all can believe him as a King.
I just have to be glad that no one has suggested Karl Urban for anything in this…
To be honest The Gunslinger series of books by Stephen King was a complete work of art, what a shame that Hollywood is not up to making such an epic work as this…They can make a bunch of crap but anything of epic porportion goes by the wayside…The truth is Hollywood does’nt have the balls to attempt this because they have nothing that can match Stephen King’s mind and they cannot stand being bested….Soooo enter HBO they have to do it in smaller pieces but at least most of it won’t be on the editing room floor.
I do know that HBO has and has had some excellent producers many of which are up to the task.
I can’t believe that anyone would pass on any Stephen King film adaptation, let alone one of his best stories ever! I am desperate to see this film as I’m sure are all King fans. Don’t think I would be as keen on an animation but would still see it anyway – it’s a Stephen King story! Please, please, somebody make the film.
koontz frankenstein please
I would love to see THE DARK TOWER made into a HBO Series.
HBO does Great work and by making it a TV Series all of Steven King’s Work could be included. It would be a Shame if they make a Movie and alot of the Material ends up on The Cutting Room Floor.
Please HBO take on THE DARK TOWER !!!
- MICHAEL ROCCO
Nothing surprises me with WB. They had all of DC’s comic character rights for years and has done nothing with them. Only till Marvel showed them how to do it right (with a lot less characters) did WB finally decided to jump back with open arms in the comic genre. I hate this studio with a passion
As passionately as you hate grammar?
I cannot believe you wasted ten seconds of your life to write that.
Ditto.
Say sorry.
Sounds to me that even though this shared feature/TV series model is a great way to go, Howard & Goldsman don’t seem to be the proper team to break this property on-screen. Kind of hope they step into producer roles and give a new director and creative team a crack at finally getting a greenlight on it.
If Goldsman can adapt “A Winter’s Tale”, then quite frankly … he can do anything. I’m wondering which books would be movies and which would be TV? Love the first one but apart from the massacre of the village, I’m not so sure it’s that cinematic. Same with the second only more so. Would definitely want to see “Wastelands” and “Wizard and Glass” as movies, but then the 7 Samurai book I could go with TV again. Thoughts?
Key phrase: “After getting an overhauled script from Oscar winning scribe Akiva Goldsman, the studio just balked on the project..”
Fantastic books, especially the first few of them, howeve, what an awful writer pairing.
It does seem like it was a pretty short path from Goldsman turning in his draft to the studio deciding to punt, doesn’t it?
This sharpens my suspicion (obviously shared by other commenters) that Goldsman is not the correct writer for this project. And Ron Howard doesn’t seem like the right director, either.
I will know this project is in good hands when the producers send Russell Crowe packing, and instead hire someone who actually matches the Gunslinger’s well-described physicality, and possesses the ability to play Roland’s understated, simmering bad-itude in excellent fashion…
…someone like Timothy Olyphant.
Amen.
Olyphant would be cool. I just wish JJ Abrams would have kept the rights to this. I love ron howard but this is soooo over his head. Give me Abrams directing and Spielberg producing.
All the majors are passing (and should be passing) on this expensive and bloated project. King now means nothing box office-wise and Howard’s last Western outing was a giant bomb! Remember — MISSING ?
With Akiva this could very well be fool’s gold… I’m a fan of the books but I don’t have much faith in his adaptation, or his ability as a writer at all.
Btw, why does this have to be “multi-platform?” How about just make one movie and let’s hope for the best… I don’t need a web-series, a comic book and a companion TV show.
The books are cool but they aren’t THAT COOL.
I know we could all disagree in this one, but i can tell you for me this 7 books are cool enough, and that the story needs more than one movie to be able to be told. And it has a lot of backstories that maybe wont fit in a movie format, for that reason i think this multi-plataform is needed. I know maybe that is not for everyone but in the end nothing in this world is for everyone.
Yes, they are THAT COOL. :p
Because that one movie would be 19 hours long?
loved what you did there.
Haven’t read the series but when I first saw mention here of the proposed Dark Tower film/TV adaptation – plus the literally hundreds of comments from devoted fans and getting an idea of what the books are about from them – it certainly seemed like a good bet at least, if not definite ‘gold.’ Also made me curious to eventually check it out in written and/or motion picture form; looks like I’ll have only one option now as long as the Imagine project stays grounded…
Can understand WB backing out. The timing, the cost, and quite frankly, the recent record of Ron Howard and Imagine is a bit troublesome. I have been a big Ron Howard and Imagine fan, but recently the crap far exceeds the great storytelling.
Granted, this could be huge, but right now the apparent reward does not warrant the risk.
And remember, big time studio filmmaking is run by folks who become more risk conscious when their studio has recently had a few costly misses.
Agreed. Imagine has totally gone downhill in recent years — not as prolific or profitable as they once were. Sounds like a bad idea for MRC to waste all their “Ted” profits on this.
No. Pretty good books, but they’re not movies.
The Dark Tower is rather dark though, and would probably receive an R rating if they followed the books. Could this be the reason two prominent studios passed?
Why not Sean Bailey and Alan Horn at Disney?
All the time, money and what few brain cells they have, they burn on junk like the DC (Disaster Comics) stuff. When someone who can write (at length, yet) comes along with a good story and a good possibility for box office, it’s “No Thanks, see you next Wednesday.”
How stupid can studio execs be? This example ought to be used in textbooks.
These books have a huge built in fanbase considering that the first book, Gunslinger, was released over twenty years ago. The series has found a new audience since the graphic novels were released and Stephen King is a highly, highly marketable brand. Like minded fantasy epics like Potter, LOTR, and Game of Thrones seem to be part of the cultural zeitgeist and are doing, you know, okay-ish.
So what’s everyone so afraid of? Dark Tower is a multi-BILLION dollar franchise.
Warner Bros is weaksauce…
Whoever made this crappy decision has forgotten the face of his father. Say sorry, big big.
This tale has been going on for years and deserves to be put in movie form or a tv series. With the technology that we have today I can’t wait to see the characters come to life. Hile Gunslingers!
MRC could never afford this…
They’d have to close up shop and sell their poison in another industry.
I agree. With all these other big fantasy stories out there, now is probably a good time for something like the DT series. Unlike other comments, I think they should have the guts to do SEVEN films and do it real justice. With such an in-built fan base they have an all but guaranteed audience, to do less is to risk the wrath of the fans.
I have to say I was encouraged by hearing that Ron Howard was involved, but Russell Crowe?!?!?! You jest!?! I vote for Hugh Jackman!
Also, I vote against anime which has a smaller appeal-group. Having bought the first 3 graphic novel companion versions to the DT books, I still have 2 unwrapped….! Not as fulfilling as the story and I don’t think an animated film would do justice to the epic scenery. I want to wonder at it like in LOTR or Australia (Hugh Jackman… nudge, nudge!)
BIG BIG!!! PERFECT BEES!! LMAO!!! LOVE IT!!
have you read the script? it’s unfilmable and a bad take on the material. kudos to warner (and uni) saving money for once.
Seems like the commenters who claim to have read the script never give any juicy details. By all means, dish!
The Dark Tower will be another The Golden Compass. Philip Pullman’s work also seemed like “gold waiting to be picked up” and we all saw how that turned out. Some great novels just don’t make the transition to screen well. WB has screwed up plenty of times, but they made the right call with passing on this.
I agree some books do not transition well to movies, however I had fear that The Stand and some of the others of Kings works would not transition well and they came across very well. As long as King is in control of the production it should do well. I do question Ron Howards’s ability to tackle this one, this is more for a Jackson style director..
It can only be shown as a series though, too much details to be had and missing those can spell disaster. One book to film that comes to mind is the Dead Zone, had heaps of symbolism and yet they missed all of it in the movie, man was I pissed…
They would have to put it out as a PG rated film too, too graphic for the younger crowd and that may be the drawback…
“As long as King is in control of the production it should do well.”
Like that time King adapted his own story as the writer-director of MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE? That didn’t turn out so well.
Maximum Overdrive… bad example. A producer doesn’t direct. As for writer, Stephen King writes very good scripts. Rose Red, Storm of the Century, The Stand…
When I saw that someone else was writing the script, I had hoped it was somebody unknown, but that Sai King hand-picked. Upon reading who took the job, and about how much they loved the series… Howard and Goldsman haven’t given up, even though they’ve been passed over by two studios. That says a lot. That says that they are devoted fans. If they were in it just for the money, they would have left it to the wolves by now.
It is too big a project, really. It is going to take some nuts of steel to pull it off. WB probably saw the script, said “DAMN” from it’s sheer ambition, and then said, “Mommy!”
George Lucas peddled Star Wars for a long time before Fox finally agreed to do it. With any luck, The Dark Tower will be the same thing. Somebody will get the kahunas to take it on, and it will blow people’s minds.
Oh, I believe Maximum Overdrive falls into the same category as The Wraith. So cheesy, it becomes awesome. It had AC/DC before they sold out. I’ll still watch it over a vast majority of the dribble being made today.
Jon, idk what you saw in The Stand but it is trash, they all are except for Stand By Me (The Body), Shawshank, and The Green Mile. Is there another King adaptation that isnt total crap?? If there is, I cant think of it. IT was cool. But totally shoulda been a major motion picture. But that novel is too big as well. I cant wait to see what they do but itll probably end up like the last hour and fifteeen minutes of Dreamcatcher. JUNK!!!
Um. No. The Golden Compass ends with two little kids essentially killing God. I was shocked when I heard the film got picked up. Development execs clearly didn’t do their homework and read the entire series. Elephants on rollerskates? A disenchanted nun? A pair of crying gay angels? God in pope mobile?
They also dumbed Compass down too far.
Gunslinger ain’t Compass.
This NEEDS to be picked up by HBO as a weekly show.That way they don’t have to cut anything important out of the books.There are enough books to make a series out of it….Come on HBO!!!!!
Yes, DT should be made into a TV series, the novels are fertile ground for CGI imagination, but PULease not Russel Crowe and not an HBO, not everyone gets HBO
I for one would NOT like to see HBO with anything to do with the Dark Tower. They have screwed up more book to screen adaptations. Can you imagine the Dark Tower as the next True Blood because that is about all they are capable of.
I cannot agree more. I’m so dissapointed with the mess that has been made of True Blood that I have lost faith in HBO. Some of King’s books have been adapted so well to film, and others were a mockery of his work. Whatever way it ends up getting brought to life, if it stays true to the story it will be epic to watch. If the screenplay of this is as bad as it sounds I hope King steps in to find someone who will do justice to his creation and won’t allow it to go to film if it is not up to snuff.
Oh yeah HBO is crap. The Sopranos, The Wire, Rome, Deadwood, Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire…all crap shows with NO epic scope.
What? The True Blood series is exactly like the books … utter crap! GOT is one the best adaptations … ever!
Have you read the True Blood books? Obviously not because they are far from what has been happening on the show.
A series wont do. Think about it guys and gals. Itd take yrs to tell. If you actually read all 8 books then you know that wouldnt be good at all. Except maybe the age of the characters problem that was brought up earlier would be solved.
This was a total mistake on their parts to pass this series over. I absolutely love “The Dark Tower” series and am really tired of seeing all these remakes, what happened to actual storylines? This would of been awesome to see Roland on the big screen.
I agree that this should be an HBO project. But I don’t think Ron Howard is the right man to helm this. Personally, I’d rather see Peter Jackson directing (is there anyone in Hollywood right now better at bringing fantasy worlds to life?), with Thomas Jane playing Roland.
Some One Should do it. But they should stay as true as possible to the series of books and take their time. I rally enjoyed this one.
The problem is that Akiva Goldsman’s adaptation just isn’t very good. It’s a tough project to adapt and he didn’t pull it off.
While I’m sad to see that WB has decided not to pursue this project, I can’t say I’m surprised. Could it be successful? Yes, it could.. Would it be successful? With this team behind it, I have my doubts.
The primary problem with doing “The Dark Tower” is the sheer scale of the project. The first book alone could easily be a three-hour film. It would easily require a budget of at least $200M to do it justice, and forget about any sequels unless it’s MASSIVELY successful.
Honestly, the best format for this is (as someone else said) a premium series. HBO would probably be the best home for it as they’ve got experience with producing and marketing epic tales.
To me this one is very loaded. It comes with a built-in fan-base, however one that has been told, via the books, that the lead character, Roland Deschain, is nearly a dead ringer for Clint Eastwood of 20+ years ago. Well, time is a wheel and 20 years have passed. Unless you want to appease the fans and CGI the heck out of Clint Eastwood (would he even agree to that?), I doubt the long-time readers of this series will be mollified with any other lead actor. Shoot, animate the danged thing and it will probably do better than trying to cram Javier Bardem (NO!) or Russel Crowe into a role they don’t fit. The books mention Clint being nearly Roland’s doppleganger. There’s no way around that for the rabid following.
yeah when i heard javier bardem i was like uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh what?
I think with all the directors and writers-including King -WB made a foolish error. However -reading Russell Crowe being pitched as Roland made me scream NO! – However–Daniel Craig ala Cowboys and Aliens “Jake Lonegan” would be perfect-what with his piercing blue eyes and a damn convincing Gunslinger.
No.
Again, No.
If were are going to mention every current actor with blues eyes that has worn a cowboy hat, we are going to be here a while. Daniel Craig makes Bond nearly unwatchable. He would be as bad as Crowe or Bardem.
I think this is going to go the way of the Akira Live Action project. Lots of influential people involved… still no movie.
Next year we finally see a big screen adaptation of Ender’s Game. Something that had been talked about for almost as long as the book has been out.
Unfortunately, the only company with the money and the resources to make something this epic right now is a company that would force it to a PG rating, thereby ruining it. Do your homework. Disney has all the muscle right now. They are top dog. They own two of the greatest special effects companies ever, and own a ton of IPs.
Dark Tower should be done old school. As little CG as possible. Actors hired for their talent, rather than their fame. Directors chosen because the creator believes them to be the right men (or women) for the job.
If you think Craig would make a good Roland, then perhaps you would like Rihanna to play Susan? Gary Oldman to play Walter O’Dim? Karl Urban for Eddie Dean? Need I go on?
Perhaps we need to just shut up, and let them make a movie. Unlike in Lucas’ day, the internet has made it impossible for a studio to surprise us. Instead they scour Facebook to make sure they pick everyone’s favorites.
I read all 5 books and I thought this would have been in production much sooner. It needs to be a series on HBO because there is so much story there.
I am so sick of reality shows and so is everyone around me.
There are 7 books not 5
actually 8 now with The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole
theres 8 books
I’m sorry Rose, but you either need to start reading some more, or you need to learn to count…
There are now 8 Dark Tower books and a whole lot that are connected to the Dark Tower Universe by way of characters and/or happenings.
ka is a wheel lol yeah king has said it all starts and ends with roland (meaning his writing)
i am happy that WB will NOT make DARK TOWER in to movies and tv they are great books
so by that rationale lord of the rings, hitch hikers guide, of mice and men etcetera are no longer great books?
they are great books i love lord of the rings but i have read the 7 dark tower books they are SO longer then lord of the rings!
Lord of The Ring was made by New Line, Mice and Men was done by MGM, and Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was made by Touchstone. I am try to figure out your point. All great movies, and great books. None done by WB. Research perhaps is not your strong point.