Dark Tower movie

Are they planning on making the series into movies? AHHHH! That would be terrible. I know my father and I wouldn't like it. I never have liked a Stephen King movie more than the actual book. The series is something kinda special to me. My father has read it and then gives it to me and we talk about the book. Something we share which would get lost in a movie. Hope they don't do this! "weeps" Vicki

The idea of a series of movies based on this series concerns me for several reasons. For starters, I haven't seen a worthy film adaptation of any of King's work so far, not even the ones where he wrote the screenplay. too much gets lost in the translation from print to film. Second, how long would these movies have to be? Even The Gunslinger, which is relatively short, would likely drag on for about three hours. Finally, while it is a series there are at least two of the books that could almost stand alone as independent stories: Wizard and Glass and Wolves of the Calla. In a situation like that you wind up with the same problem as Halloween III wherein you have a sequel that has little to do with the rest of the series. Fortunately, there is a solution but the success of it would have everything to do with how it's presented. I think that an extended mini-series might be the answer to this dillemma, but it can't go to one of the major networks. A cable network like HBO or Showtime whould pick it up so that the necessary artistic freedom to present the story well and without deference to the FCC would be there. The Stand is a prime example of how a Stephen King story CAN be translated well to film but the constraints placed upon it by presenting it on a commercial network hampered the ability to really convey the horror of the subject. If the choice is between having a Dark Tower series done like The Stand and not having one at all, I vote for the latter.