Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" Coming To Film & Television

[Red Brooklyn]

Originally Posted by kaplin42

That would suck if they cut Wolves. I thought that story was awesome.

Wolves is actually my favorite book in the series. I'd be really, REALLY bummed to see it cut. It's a really exceptional book. It's so visual too.

[vailpass]

Originally Posted by Red Brooklyn

Wolves is actually my favorite book in the series. I'd be really, REALLY bummed to see it cut. It's a really exceptional book. It's so visual too.

Would it be wrong to say they aren't really wolves, rather they are robots that can be deactivated by shooting the mini-radar dish on their heads? And that Andy the Messenger Robot, along with Benny Slightman's dad, are betraying the Calla to the wolves?

I think it would be okay to say that as long as you didn't say that Eddie dies a couple of books later, then Jake shortly thereafter but it's okay because Susannah joins them again in some alternate world leaving Roland to find and enter the tower all by himself in a typical Steven King hell-of-a-story-teller-but-can't-end-a-book-to-save-his-life ending.

[kaplin42]

Originally Posted by vailpass

Would it be wrong to say they aren't really wolves, rather they are robots that can be deactivated by shooting the mini-radar dish on their heads? And that Andy the Messenger Robot, along with Benny Slightman's dad, are betraying the Calla to the wolves?

I think it would be okay to say that as long as you didn't say that Eddie dies a couple of books later, then Jake shortly thereafter but it's okay because Susannah joins them again in some alternate world leaving Roland to find and enter the tower all by himself in a typical Steven King hell-of-a-story-teller-but-can't-end-a-book-to-save-his-life ending.

Bitter? Bitter, party of 1, your table is ready in the "haven't been laid in 10 years" section.

[vailpass]

Originally Posted by kaplin42

Bitter? Bitter, party of 1, your table is ready in the "haven't been laid in 10 years" section.

WTF are u talking about? Where did you get bitter out of what I said?

[Jawshco]

Ha! I'd love to see The Wolves of Calla on film, but in terms of the overall storyline it can be removed. Plus, how would they get rights to use the Harry Potter snitches, Dr. Doom (from Marvel/Disney's Fantastic Four) etc. The tie between Wolves and Salem's Lot is pretty badass though! Those tie-INS might not work as well on film. I say they should cut most of Wolves almost all of Song of Sussanah (a completely skippable book aside from a few creepy creature moments, BTW) and cut a lot out of Dark Tower to make up the ending.

[Red Brooklyn]

Originally Posted by Jawshco

Ha! I'd love to see The Wolves of Calla on film, but in terms of the overall storyline it can be removed. Plus, how would they get rights to use the Harry Potter snitches, Dr. Doom (from Marvel/Disney's Fantastic Four) etc. The tie between Wolves and Salem's Lot is pretty badass though! Those tie-INS might not work as well on film. I say they should cut most of Wolves almost all of Song of Sussanah (a completely skippable book aside from a few creepy creature moments, BTW) and cut a lot out of Dark Tower to make up the ending.

I'm finding a lot of people out there on the world wide interwebs share these sentiments. And, I suppose I can understand them.

But, as I said, Wolves is probably my favorite book in the series. Wizard And Glass being a close second. And (I'm probably in the minority here also) I LOVE the meta-fiction of Song. So, I'd be sad to see a lot of that stuff go. But in the interest of steamlining... if they're going cut stuff, that seems like the "right" stuff to cut.

This is why the whole damn thing should be a cable series. Then, you don't really have to cut anything.