Childe Roland to the dark theater, came
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paul_valaru
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no woot here, great books, but King works in other mediums always seems to fall short of the mark, I think it will ruin it.
Altron
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There's just no way to condense that into a movie. MAYBE if you had seven movies, and MAYBE if each was as long as Apocalypse Now Redux (nearly 4 hours), it could be done.
There's a certain sense of time that you get with the books that would be completely lost in a 2 hour movie. A sense of Roland having traveled the world for HUNDREDS of years. A sense of hopelessness and desperation in certain parts, where Roland has been going for so long that you know he can't possibly win, because reading the whole series takes months even for a very fast reader.
Think about how short individual parts would need to be in order for it to work. The endless trek across the desert in The Gunslinger, condensed into about ten minutes, including Tull and the Way Station? Not happening.
They would need to either have a very long series of very long movies, or a TV series (NOT miniseries, full length series minimum ~20 1-hour episodes), in order to get it in. EIther that or cut a lot of it out, which would totally kill it.
What I think a major problem is with movies based on books is that they use famous actors and directors and try to make movies. Movies that need to appeal to Average Joe with his 90-minute-maximum attention span. I wish they would use film-festival type actors and directors and try to make books on film. Where it can be very long, where it is very true to the original, and where it doesn't appeal to everyone, just the same audience that the original appealed to.
There's a certain sense of time that you get with the books that would be completely lost in a 2 hour movie. A sense of Roland having traveled the world for HUNDREDS of years. A sense of hopelessness and desperation in certain parts, where Roland has been going for so long that you know he can't possibly win, because reading the whole series takes months even for a very fast reader.
Think about how short individual parts would need to be in order for it to work. The endless trek across the desert in The Gunslinger, condensed into about ten minutes, including Tull and the Way Station? Not happening.
They would need to either have a very long series of very long movies, or a TV series (NOT miniseries, full length series minimum ~20 1-hour episodes), in order to get it in. EIther that or cut a lot of it out, which would totally kill it.
What I think a major problem is with movies based on books is that they use famous actors and directors and try to make movies. Movies that need to appeal to Average Joe with his 90-minute-maximum attention span. I wish they would use film-festival type actors and directors and try to make books on film. Where it can be very long, where it is very true to the original, and where it doesn't appeal to everyone, just the same audience that the original appealed to.
