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Right. But I bet the rights to Velcro Fly could be had for a case of Fosterburg's Beard Jell.
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Good question! No idea, though. Might depend on how much they'd have to pay to use it. View attachment 14763
Since making changes to the story line is what all the cool kids do these days, they can go after this version from the Metal-Level of the Dark Tower. And I bet it would be less expensive.Well, can't say I'm any more excited. But I'm gonna try keepin an open mind.
Tryin to "take a sad song and make it better". Heh, get it? Oh, speakin of Hey Jude--they gonna try to get the rights to that?
My semi-optimistic thought is that if the movie is poor, that any subsequent series adapted for Netflix or other such organization will not feel beholden to treat the film as the source, and thus go back to the books. Obviously, if the film is some great success (true to the source material or not) spin offs will treat the movie as a foundation. I won't like that but I will understand it. However, if the film isn't good or particularly successful, I would hope that those with the options to do a series would simply divorce themselves from the film and start over. I still remain optimistic about that, or at least I want to be optimistic about it.
I probably won't be able to contribute much to the conversation, but can I sit at your table?Bob, I'll tell ya, I'd like nothing better'n sit down with you over a couple of beers and talk King shop. You know yer stuff.
That was my main concern from the beginning. I suspect that will be toned down a bit, as well; alternately, she could go very dirty by attacking Roland as an Uncle Tom (wearing 'white' garb, etc). The economic divide ploy--it becomes more a 'haves and have nots' thing rather than black white. That would play very well with today's sensibilities.But that's where the misgivings come from. How can Roland's race be switched without causing a different reaction to him by other characters, perhaps Eddie given that he is from this world, but especially Susannah/Odetta (especially especially Odetta, if you'll forgive the mangling)?
As I said before, it throws up some interesting possibilities as well as writing challenges, BUT since it seems like it's going to be a single movie, the most likely course of action will be to throw Odetta's white-hatred away, which would lessen both of those characters as well as the relationship with Eddie, due to running time constraints (and to avoid controversy, no doubt ). It'd need (at least) a trilogy to even begin to do all the themes of the books justice.
And no one get me wrong: I'll be watching this regardless.
Jordan: Yeah, I knew that. It's why I didn't mention him.
Senor_Biggles: Fair do's. I hadn't heard the rumours re: Idris Elba, but then again the last I knew Ron Howard was meant to be working on it, so there you go.
I probably won't be able to contribute much to the conversation, but can I sit at your table?
I know! The Gunslinger is what makes his capitulation to real feeling in The Wasteland WORK. Meh. I never will understand adaptations anyway. Imma go pull out The Gunslinger again.Leaving out the gunslinger,his initial appearance and how he saved himself by using the gun,in a manner that no one else could,fast beyond belief,and decimating the entire attacking townsfolk..how can that be left out?That is the whole hook for the gunslinger,seeing his skill and how he uses it without remorse,without pity,almost an afterthought..and they are leaving this out?
You get the tab this time, and I'll get it next weekend.Now we're are all gonna end up buying.
I know! The Gunslinger is what makes his capitulation to real feeling in The Wasteland WORK. Meh. I never will understand adaptations anyway. Imma go pull out The Gunslinger again.
You never know. It could be more vicious. The economic divide is very much on people's minds right now, and with that dynamic she could toss pretty much the same epithets at him as she threw at Roland in the book, but in a sarcastic, digging way. It could work.I don't think the Uncle Tom angle would have nearly as much impact as the clear racial dynamic between the white, high-born prince and the black woman who has suffered persecution and physical abuse so much so that she's developed a split personality to deal with it, and everything that goes into that....
Do we know who is playing Detta? Sorry, I have been half reading about this project.
Because I kinda don't want to know.