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The Dark Tower

The title pretty much says it all

3 Things That Would Also Work As A Movie And TV Show, Besides Dark Tower

by Susana Polo | 4:18 pm, September 9th

Fan sites are trumpeting the news today that Stephen King‘s Dark Tower has been greenlit for a film adaptation. But for television, or movies, you ask?

Both. The idea is to have a trilogy of movies that aren’t completely consecutive, narrative-wise. The story in between each movie will be done as a television show that will run in between the theatrical releases.

We’ve never read the Dark Tower series, but we find ourselves really intrigued by this proposed method of adaptation. It is an extremely elegant solution to adapting a serial story that nevertheless really needs a big screen and big budget to do it justice, without the necessary serialization that occurs in miniseries. And we’ve seen it before, in an incredibly successful way. Remember Clone Wars?

We’d like to see this approach put towards other works as well, even though, as some have rightfully pointed out, it is unorthodox, logistically tricky, and incredibly expensive.

A few examples:

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American Vampire: Stephen King’s First Comic

by Susana Polo | 12:15 pm, March 15th

Yesterday, The Daily Beast put up an exclusive interview with Stephen King regarding the making of his first comic book, American Vampire.  Yes, we know all about the Dark Tower comics, but this time, King is actually writing the scripts.  In fact, much to his disappointment, DC Comics told him he couldn’t use thought bubbles anymore.

“I got this kind of embarrassed call from the editors saying, ‘Ah, Steve, we don’t do that anymore.’ ‘You don’t do that anymore?’ I said. ‘No, when the characters speak, they speak. If they’re thinking, you try to put that across in the narration, in the little narration boxes.’”

King also mentions the Twilight books, as anyone who writes anything about vampires is now forced to do as if no one has ever done vampires before:

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