Isn't there a dvd where he does an audiocommentary for it? I only have his audiocommentary for the Shining mini-series. The Stand has always been bare bones here - but there isn't a blu-ray yet, so hopefully if there ever will be one they put his commentary on that.
He also did a Stand screenplay when it was gonna be a theatrical film (with George Romero attached at some point). So he either did two different screenplays, or he revised the theatrical screenplay for tv.
He is attached as producer. I don't know which thread it was, but I believe Miss Mod explained somewhere that he has final say over the screenplay. I think he's closer involved than with other films he didn't write himself.
He's Teddy Weizak. He's in a couple more scenes, I remember, but I don't have the dvd. If it ever comes out with at least some commentary track(s) (I doubt there is much behind-the-scenes material), I'd probably buy it.
I dunno. I mean, I'm kinda interested in seeing this thing they're doing now, which, by all accounts, sounds like a mere novelty. An homage. An Easter Egg hunt. And that's all fine and dandy, I suppose...but I don't, by God, I WON'T consider it part of the DT canon. How could I? King ain't writing it, therefore, it ain't the real DT.
But I've been saying it way back since before the thing had even been cast: we don't need a DT movie. No mere film can match what happens inside my brain when I read those books. I have my Roland, my Eddie, my Suze, etc. I know who I see when I read DT, and, to be honest, I'd rather not see someone else's take on the series. And, as I've said elsewhere, much of what is cool about those books stems from the simple fact that they are books. The riddle of literature is woven into the fabric of The Dark Tower, and, cry yer pardon, ya can't replicate that on film.
I've walked with Pere Callahan way back when he was denied entrance to his church. I've stood on cemetery streets after Captain Trips laid waste to America. I cried when Gage died, and shivered on those Derry nights when Pennywise ran amok. All this, and more, do ya, is woven into what makes DT great. You think some Hollywood producer can even grasp this concept? I say thee nay.
I'm gonna set up a crowdfunding page for our in house word slinging Muskie to get his $hit out on paperback. a baaaackRoOm production of epic proportions - a monthly $0.50c subscription to the ramblings of a madman, a read so immense - it will have you searching under your bed for Victorian fiends, bump slithers, and things that go squelch in the smoggy night. Tales of our voluptuous leggy Princess Fondarella, heir to the Galaxy, and her trusty gunslinging sidekick sex dwarf.
you really need a blog mate. so I can read more of this stuff every morning.
...and $hit yeh I wanna see the movie, but I doubt it will quench the dark tower thirst I have one bit.
unless of course they waft burning devil grass into the cinema when we enter Tull, or stick another joint of long pork on the Dixie pig griddle, or have the chairs shake violently to the sonic boom when Blaine the mono bullets through the Topeka turnpike. Or maybe the warbling saw will be so loud that the popcorn stand hands out bullets for us to stick in our ears as we wander the wasteland.
or better yet, when it's comalla day we could all dance in the aisles along with long tall.
Now that's one chapter they better not leave out - the Wolves entering Calla. I wanna see SKs version of magnificent 7 , its gotta to be better than the drivel I watched the other day.
The U.S. Stand dvd has a commentary, King is one of many participants on the disc. Too bad for you, from what I remember it's pretty interesting if you like commentaries which I do.
The U.S. Stand dvd has a commentary, King is one of many participants on the disc. Too bad for you, from what I remember it's pretty interesting if you like commentaries which I do.
A lot of times they leave off commentaries on dvd's here - or at least the 'cheaper' distributors do. I suppose, because they find it too expensive, it's too much trouble or they think people won't care. It depends on the distributor though, sometimes they're on, like The Shining mini-series, which was an interesting listen.
The UK special edition of The Stand (which has region 2 which I use) has the commentary and a few extras, but I rather would have it on blu-ray. It the mini-series was recently released on blu-ray, so maybe more of the King mini-series will follow.
I agree with the poster that capturing the theme and spirit of a source material is the most important thing.
Look at the changes made to Shawshank - Morgan Freeman as Red - maybe because I'm Irish - to collapsing the wardens of the novella to one in the movie all leading to one of the few superior adaptations to the source material.
With a faithful adaptation of Shawshank the novella we would have never gotten the movie of adaptation of Shawshank we all know and have come to love.
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