The first book, The Gunslinger, is what one might think of as a hard-bitten western in a fantasy world not that much unlike our own, but set in a post-apocalyptic time since Roland’s world is dying slowly but surely as the Dark Tower, the linchpin of all existence is slowly crumbling. The fact that Roland is chasing Marten, his father’s former advisor and magician, across a vast desert is one of the main points since Roland has been after Marten since he found the magician was having an affair with his mother.
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But there are reasons why this series would work as a TV show and it’s largely due to the fact that there’s so much going on in the books that trying to create a movie script that will capture as much as it needs to is insanely difficult since the first book alone could be the first season or two. It’s been stated that were plans for a TV series, but it was canceled before anything could come of it.įor fans of the series, this was perhaps one of the last insults that really drove the point home that we weren’t going to get to see a worthy version of The Dark Tower for reasons that probably won’t be known unless someone wants to fess up and tell the truth. The story of Roland Deschain is such an epic tale that seeing it presented in the way that it was would have been like creating the Star Wars trilogy and lumping it all into one movie while eliminating several key elements that made it great.
The best possible representation that this series could have been given was to develop a TV series, not a limited series and not a miniseries, but an actual TV series, around the idea so that it could be allowed to expand in whatever direction it needed, and possibly even show Roland as a young man along with his friends, Cuthbert and Alain, who were prominently featured in the fourth book, Wizard and Glass. King’s eight Dark Tower books draw from multiple genres, including dark fantasy, science fantasy, horror and Western.Out of all the failed movie adaptations, The Dark Tower was by far one of the worst since the story that Stephen King spent so long crafting was basically reduced to a two-hour blurb that took certain elements from the story and left everything else on the cutting room floor. The cast of the pilot, which was never officially announced or confirmed, also is believed to have included Michael Rooker, Jerome Flynn and Joana Ribeiro. It takes place many years before the events depicted in the feature and focused on the origin story of Roland Deschain’s (Sam Strike) – how he first became a gunslinger and got his guns, his first conflict with the man in black (Jasper Pääkkönen), his first love and his first mission as a gunslinger.
The Dark Tower TV series was designed to be independent from the 2017 film and was meant to be a more faithful retelling of the book than the movie was. In the end, I hear Amazon executives felt like the pilot was not on the level of other large-scope elevated genre series the streamer has in production/pre-production like Wheel Of Time and The Lord Of the Rings.
straight-to-series order, which is rare for a big-scale, big-budget production like The Dark Tower. Largely because of the challenges translating the material, Amazon opted to go with a pilot vs. The Dark Tower has always been considered very difficult to adapt to the screen, which explains the title’s lengthy road to being made into a feature by Sony and a pilot by Amazon.
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