....I envision the opening sequence as Mad Max meets Quentin Tarantino....
Film Predictions (Spoilers Hidden) Hollyweird's Version of the Dark Tower
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....I envision the opening sequence as Mad Max meets Quentin Tarantino....
We would be lucky to get that dark.
I envision something as idiotic as that barrel ride in the Hobbit.
My take is that the entire first book will be told in flashbacks. The movie will open with Roland on the beach, fighting the lobstrosities. They're going to do away with anything from the Wizard of Oz and/or Harry Potter as it will be too costly (film rights, etc.) to use anything related to those films. They will use the section of the Waste Lands when Jake is kidnapped by Gasher (think of all of those little kids in a darkened theater trembling with fear for the Jakester!). Gone will be any part of Wizard & Glass as no one will care about Roland's lost love. Gone will be any mention of Jericho Hill, Susan, Cuthbert & Alain, and Rhea (that b*tch!). Roland is going to shown as something like an alien who has stepped out of time (like a Terminator!) and possibly even a UFO. The main thrust of the story will be just Roland trying to stop the Tower from falling and ruining existence (imagine the FX they'll use on the big screen for this!!).
You have to make a tee shirt. I would buy it.Maybe a supermodel can play Rhea? Seductive witchy
Sounds like you just about got it there. You could have made a ton of real dollars.
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Rhea (that b*tch!). Copyright 2016 @ kingricefan!!!!!!!!
Maybe a supermodel can play Rhea? Seductive witchy
Sounds like you just about got it there. You could have made a ton of real dollars.
I know!
You had that phrase long before 2016. 
Yes, but now someone else might try to use it!!! It's MINE!!! MINE!!! MINE!!! ALL MINE!!!!
On the back it should say "Onest" with a big 19 below it
....I'd pay a dollar for that....
So I started to think about the script, for the Dark Tower, and apply my experience with Hollywood and her films. I combined that with the various leaks we have been getting and a film is starting to take form in my mind following the predictable pattern. Granted my predictions so far (which I will add to as we get more leaks and I think of more) are not true to the book, but would still count as spoilers wherein they are in the ballpark. Avoid the section called spoilers if you haven't read the book, or if you think I might be on the mark about the film.
Part-1: Film Opening
The film does at least open on the desert. That much alone they were willing to keep in the film. The first book of the series has one of the best lines ever written, and even Hollywood isn't so depraved as to remove it. The camera flows over the harsh desert, the apotheosis of all deserts as the voice of a boy starts up in narration. The narrating boy delivers that famous line about the man in black fleeing across the desert, and the gunslinger follows. They take this time to follow up with a bit of prologue still given by the narrating boy's voice and give you the typical Hollywood flashes to match what you are told.
Part-2: Then you seen the narrator, switching back to our world. The boy has visions of this apocalyptic world. *This is how they tie it together. The next section of the film introduces the boy (hopefully he will still be called Jake) and we learn about his hard home life, how his father died in the WTC attack, and his visions and problems. He sees things, and perhaps he is going crazy. Only he isn't going crazy. He is seeing visions of what is to come for this strange other world and his (our own). Things are getting rough for him and he may be confined to an institution.
Part-3: Enter the black hats. In this case the Low Men/Women come for the boy. They know the truth about him. They have come to kidnap him for his power. The term Breaker might even be introduced. These alien invaders, chief among them the beautiful, Australian supermodel with the traits of a snake mean to take the boy back to their world. Conveniently enough, they gain passage through certain spot in the desert, i.e. the Way station. The boy and the Gunslinger are thus, on a collision course. This ties the Man in Black to the kidnappers. He was making for the Way station too.
Part-4: The meeting. The boy is taken to Midworld and there at the Way Station the Gunslinger nearly catches the Man in Black. There is some sort of action packed gunfight. The Man in Black and the Australian Supermodel escape, but many of the other Low Men/Women are killed. The Gunslinger now learns of Jake, his visions, and pursues the Man in Black with the boy in tow.
This is as far as I've gotten working out how I think Hollyweird is likely to rewrite.
Subsequent gossip and the addition of Sayre to the cast of characters hasn't made me feel any different from my previous prediction of the opening. About the only change I can see so far is to include Sayre in the party wishing to abduct Jake. That would make sense as they will need an actor who can play the "heavy" to be in charge while the supermodel plays the dangerous, sexy snake-like Low Woman. I suppose she will be the heavy hitter and him the boss. I don't want to go too much into detail until I drop another spoiler alert.
Part 5: The boy now finds himself in the company of a reluctant hero, Roland. I think the will keep Roland's initial goal of catching the Man In Black intact, but not for some great higher purpose such as finding the Tower. I think movie Roland will have forsaken that kind of thing. He is hunting the MiB for revenge, and the boy will be telling him of his visions and of the danger to the Tower. In short, they are going to do the thing where the reluctant hero gets sucked back into the grander battle for good and evil by the boy. This takes time, however, and initially Roland just wants to get back after his MiB who continues towards the mountains. He takes the boy with him because what else can he do?