This is a sad piece of news that I heard from Empire Magazine yesterday as I'm a big fan of Ron Howard films since I first saw his 'A Beautiful Mind'. But that film was an amazing piece of work as it focused on the idea that this mathmatics genius was a little bit mad...you could say that it played on the idea that all the best genius's in history were a little bit mad.
Anyhew....this time Ron has wanted to do the most ambitious project you could say because of the scale of this project but very creatively different as not only did Ron Howard want to do a trilogy of film adaptions of Stephan King's 7 novel series Dark Tower as well as two limited TV series's. But eventhough this would have been in my mind very interesting to see Universal Pictures have only put up the money for one film,which has left all those involved such as Javier Bardem who is going to star as Roland Deschain, Brain Grazer and Akiva Goldsman who has wrote the script for this adaption in limbo as all those involved are now looking for a new backer of this project.
It has also put Mark Verheiden who was going to cowrite the TV part of these adaptions with Goldsman. If you like me haven't managed to muster the strength to pick up a Stephan King novel don't worry because to be honest I sometimes see his books and because of some of the size of some of his books my heart sinks... thinking that I'll never be able to get through that book.
Dark Tower is about the last living member of a knightly order of gunslingers, and Javier's character Deschain becomes humanities only hope to save civilization so he takes to the road to find the Dark Tower, and along the way he meets all different kinds of characters some good some evil and all in a world that has a old Western feel to it.
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