Stephen King's 'Dark Tower' Set For Film Trilogy

Deadline ^ | April 29, 2010 | Mike Fleming

[Mad Dawgg]

"however "Cell" was not about Zombies,"

Right, OK...

From Publishers Weekly
What if a pulse sent out through cell phones turned every person using one of them into a zombie-like killing machine? That's what happens on page six of King's latest, a glib, technophobic but compelling look at the end of civilization—or at what may turn into a new, extreme, telepathically enforced fascism.

Amazon.com Review:
Witness Stephen King's triumphant, blood-spattered return to the genre that made him famous. Cell, the king of horror's homage to zombie films

Then of course Mr. King dedicated the Book to Richard Matheson (author of I Am Legend) and George Romero (director of Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead and Land of the Dead) and has even said this book is an hoomage to the Zombie Genre.

[Eaker]

Ping.

[humblegunner]

Thankee-Sai.

I’ll watch for this if it do ya fine.

[Post-Neolithic]

Guess it’s one of those agree to disagree moments :) No one came back from the dead, which I associate with Zombies.

[Eaker]

I think PitStop would be good as Oy.

[Joe 6-pack]

I can begrudgingly go with DiCaprio as the younger Roland, with Timothy Dalton as the adult.

I don't think anyone even comes close to Michael Chiklis as Cort.

I think David Bowie gets the Man in Black...he's a very under-rated actor, and has the right creep factor.

[humblegunner]

I think PitStop would be good as Oy.

Pitsy is a good dog.

It sucks folks post threads wanting him dead.

I like dogs and cats better than most people.

True story.

[engrpat]

May have to reconsider reading it. It has been so long I may just start with book one.

[AliVeritas]

As I thought, thanks Joe.

[Joe 6-pack]

LOL...I was still at work when I replied earlier, and when I came home I pulled one of those paperbacks off the shelf. In the Introduction by King, titled On Being Nineteen (And A Few Other Things), the very first sentence is, "Hobbits were big when I was nineteen (a number of some import in the stories you are about to read)."

The next paragraph concludes, "The Dark Tower books, like most long fantasy tales written by men and women of my generation (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, by Stephen Donaldson, and The Sword of Shannara, by Terry Brooks are just two of many), were born out of Tolkien's."

[Hoodat]

This list will probably reveal my age, but here goes:

Roland - Daniel Day Lewis
Eddie Dean - Tim Roth
Susannah - Zoe Saldana
Henry Dean - Tom Petty
Cort - William Forsythe
Father Callahan - Scott Glenn
Enrico Balazar - Christopher Walken
Walter - Gary Oldman

[Joe 6-pack]

Interesting choices....that would make a well rounded cast...

...I still like Chiklis as Cort, though ;-) When I was an ROTC cadet, I had a Master Sergeant that was everything Cort was. Since "The Shield" I've had difficulty separating the three (MSG Anderson, Cort and Chiklis) in my mind....