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Lindelof Talks Dark TowerBy Josh Tyler: 2008-09-04 05:02:44
It was way back in February that we first heard JJ Abrams and his Lost Damon Lindelof might be working on an adaptation of Stephen King’s epic “Dark Tower” series. Since then it’s been pretty quiet, but yesterday Lindelof had a few things to say to AMC about the current state of Roland’s affairs.
In short, it’s waiting for him to find the right amount of time. He says, “The Dark Tower is to me every bit as daunting an adaptation as the Lord of the Rings trilogy must have been for Peter Jackson, except we've got seven books we're looking at.” True. I mean it’s confusing and dense and not always very linear. It is a lot of books too, though hopefully they’d have the sense not to try and cram them all into one, two, or even three movies. You could probably pull it off in six (seven preferred), but no less, so obviously this is a project that’s going to take a huge time commitment. Time is something Lindelof says he doesn’t have. “The idea of doing that at the same time Carlton and I are bringing Lost to a close is simply not viable. There are always Dark Tower conversations, but the figuring out of what this will look like as a movie has not begun. If The Dark Tower were in the right hands, I would love to see seven movies executed just right. But you have to get people to see the first one to get them to come and see the second one.” Lindelof seems to be saying they’d have to make one movie and see how it goes, and that would be a shame. The only way to do The Dark Tower is to do it up LOTR style, and film multiple movies all at once. It’s the kind of thing which will only work if there’s a huge commitment up front to doing it, and doing all of it. For now, none of that seems to matter. Maybe once Lost is done Lindelof will get going on turning The Dark Tower into the cinematic mega-movie it should be. As long as he gets to it before Paul W.S. Anderson, Brett Ratner, or someone equally horrendous gets his hands on it. Actually, screw Lindelof. The Dark Tower needs Frank Darabont. Stick Clint Eastwood in a time machine and de-age him to play Roland. Then pair Darabont up with Stephen King and let them work whatever magic it is that happens whenever they get together on a film project. That’s what The Dark Tower needs. If we can’t get a time machine, what about just ironing out some of Eastwood’s wrinkles?
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