The Dark Tower
Stephen King has verbalise out on why he thinksThe Dark Towerfailed . The prolific author ’s work has always been ripe for adaptation ( See : Carrie , The Shining , Children of the Corn , and a treasure trove of other classic ) , but this class has been particularly fruitful . In the last few months alone , two of his well - known oeuvre have been translate to screen : IT , his famed clown - centric thriller , andThe Dark Tower , his sprawl , eight - book fantasy epic .
But whileITwas arunaway smash hit , The Dark Towerfell woefully short . The film accept in only $ 110 million worldwide against a $ 60 million budget , and its reviews were for the most part scathing . A tie - inTV serial , based on the fourth book , a prequel , is still charging ahead , but even the picture ’s sensation , Idris Elba , is n’t sure about the franchise ’s future . So where did it go wrong ?
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allot to King , it fare down to two thing : Trying to meet such a large scale project into a desirable runtime and having to water down the book ’s original tone . As he toldVulturein a late interview :
" The major challenge was to do a film based on a serial publication of book that ’s really long , about 3,000 page . The other part of it was the determination to do a PG-13 feature adaptation of Koran that are extremely tearing and deal with violent deportment in a fair pictorial way . That was something that had to be overtake , although I ’ve have ta say , I believe [ screenwriter ] Akiva Goldsman did a terrific job in taking a central part of the book and twist it into what I call up was a passably upright movie . The TV serial they ’re developing now … we ’ll see what come about with that . It would be like a complete reboot , so we ’ll just have to see . "
King notes that he ’s get laid every adaption of his work ( " Even the bad movie I saw was f — in ’ terrific , " he tell the mercantile establishment , ) but his points are dapple - on . The full series cover over 4,250 pages , not including the multiple references in King ’s other book . A faithful adjustment for the first novel would have been ambitious enough on its own , butThe Dark Towerattempted to pull from across the entire story while still adding its own spin . Simply put : The film ’s team endeavor to do too much at once , and it showed . The long - gestating moving picture was provoke by numerous postponement , and by the prison term it finally arrived in theaters , the list of concerns were high . duad that with debile merchandising , pitiful reviews , and , as King says , a meaning displacement in content , and it was basically dead on arrival . But King enjoyed it notwithstanding , and even though it was a missed chance for fan , his original serial still speaks volumes on its own .
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Source : Vulture
