10 Things Hollywood Must Get Right With The Dark Tower Movie

7. Don't Cram Too Much Into The First Film, Though

It might seem presumptuous to assume that The Dark Tower has been planned as an epic fantasy series made up of multiple movies, but c'mon - it so totally has. That in mind, then, the studio are going to have to figure out how, exactly, to tell this story properly - and by way of how many movies. It doesn't seem likely that the studio will commit to 7 or 8 movies; even if Stephen King fans would love that to happen, it's just not feasible and it just can't be expected. That said, 3 or 4 movies - of close to three hours each - could probably work. And in all likelihood, 3 or 4 movies is what we'll get, too. Still, the first Dark Tower movie - The Gunslinger - will most likely find itself tempted to incorporate as much material as possible in order to prepare audiences for the kinds of plot devices and narrative twists that occur later in the series. You know, things like, oh, large portions of the story taking place in Manhattan, for example. Whilst it make sense to establish the franchise's direction earlier on, though, too much content will spoil the film. Because The Gunslinger is pretty much a full-on western. Despite there being moments of foreshadowing, most of the novel concerns a gritty, dusty desert world, and there's a sense that the first movie should settle on rendering that properly before moving onto the bigger stuff. The studio will probably bring aspects of The Drawing of the Three into the first movie, which is wise - but it shouldn't get ahead of itself out of some misplaced fear.