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Cloverfield/Dark Tower Connection?[OT]

jarofsap704

...said the lost gunslinger. haha.
sounds cool man, just started reading em for the first time, only half way into gunslinger. good to know there's more to look forward to.

he's really signed on to do those movies?

**Posted:** Mon Apr 07, 2008 9:59 pm

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I've seen it confirmed on a couple sites with quotes from JJ,I'll try to dig them up and post the links...

They're my fav. books so I hope they get done right, unlike most of Stephen King's great books that make it to the big screen (see: Dreamcatcher, err... or I mean... don't see). But after Lost and Cloverfield, I probably wouldn't want anyone else doing it but JJ anyway...

**Posted:** Mon Apr 07, 2008 10:09 pm

jarofsap704

I'd have to finish reading em through to get an idea of how it'd translate into movies. so far i can't imagine they would use much from the early parts of gunslinger. it's great story telling but the pacing is too strange for a big expensive movie.

i wanna take bets as to how soon someone will tell you to move this thread. haha

**Posted:** Mon Apr 07, 2008 10:22 pm

gigantis2001

I have seen this confirmed on various sites as well, but I have to disagree with the parasites matching the description of the lobstrosities, but it's been awhile since I read The Drawing of the Three, so I don't remember too well what they looked like(haven't gotten to The Waste Lands, but it is literally sitting on my desk; hoping to get to it soon).

I think your wishful thinking has gotten to you, is all.

By the way, in The Mist, director Frank Darabont said he wanted the giant scorpion-crab thing to resemble the lobstrosities as kind of an in-joke to tie into The Dark Tower a little (not officially, though). If you haven't seen it, The Mist is one of the greatest horror films of all time, in my opinion (I'm a huge horror fan).

Edit: I said "in-joke," but it's not really a joke....
Maybe I should've said "reference" or something.

**Posted:** Mon Apr 07, 2008 10:24 pm

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The Mist was good, you say? I have heard so many conflicting reviews and being a big King fan, I was scared to watch the movie, but I'll probably go rent it soon then.

As far as the lobstrosities go, the main thing that got me was they were described as having a large serrated beak, and that was practically the main feature of the parasites.

Just finished reading The Gunslinger for the second time, and started The Drawing... today, they're even better the second time around...

**Posted:** Mon Apr 07, 2008 10:43 pm

Bobicus · Boot Joined: 07 Apr 2008 Posts: 15

The Mist is awesome need more movies like it
also cool that they have the dark tower and other books of his as paintings in the beginning

**Posted:** Mon Apr 07, 2008 10:46 pm

jarofsap704

ya, The Mist was really good. really tense, focuses on the people like it's supposed to. all things good. GREAT ENDING!

**Posted:** Mon Apr 07, 2008 10:56 pm

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can't wait... d@#* this metaphysics essay!!!!!

**Posted:** Mon Apr 07, 2008 11:07 pm

SSR777 · Boot Joined: 03 Apr 2008 Posts: 11

I'll also chime in, The Mist was an exelent movie. I didn't see it in theaters and I wished I would have.

**Posted:** Mon Apr 07, 2008 11:12 pm

gigantis2001

So yeah, seems like everybody like The Mist.

**Posted:** Tue Apr 08, 2008 3:33 pm

tMan930

The movie's ending fails compared to the book's, in my opinion, but King approved (loved, actually, as I remember reading it) of it. So I'm satisfied.

The Dark Tower movies are guaranteed to be awesome. At least, they'd better be...

In the meantime, read the Gunslinger Born comic series! It's amazing! And the Long Road Home is shaping up to be incredible too! Jae Lee is a pimp...

**Posted:** Tue Apr 08, 2008 3:56 pm

jarofsap704

Do NOT get me started on The Thing. haha.

We aughta have a whole thread 'Other Shit We Like'.
I'm kind of interested in what all of you are into beyond this movie.

Favourite video games, bands, shit like that.

**Posted:** Tue Apr 08, 2008 5:33 pm

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http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/02/26/stephen-king-confirms-the-dark-tower-movie/

http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/02/13/jj-abrams-to-direct-movie-version-of-stephen-kings-the-dark-tower/

http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1574452/20071115/story.jhtml

**Posted:** Tue Apr 08, 2008 6:19 pm

pegassissy · Unfettered Joined: 14 Aug 2007 Posts: 552

**Posted:** Tue Apr 08, 2008 7:10 pm

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