The Dark Tower Movie: 5 Biggest Mistakes It's Already Made
1. Cinema Is The Wrong Format For Dark Tower
There are scores of fans out there who believe that The Dark Tower is unfilmable, and they may have a point.
Stephen King delivered a sprawling epic where countless characters, realities and influences collide across more than 4,000 madcap pages.
Even with seven three-hour films to play with, streamlining and source material liberties would be required to cram the whole story into the medium of cinema.
And therein lies the problem - cinema is the wrong format for Dark Tower.
King's opus is more suitable to a big-budget TV show is the vein of Game of Thrones or Westworld. Seven seasons of 10 hour-long episodes, one for each novel, would suffice for a direct adaptation of the saga without concessions.
A decade or so ago, this wouldn't have been the case, but production values in the world of television have come on in leaps and bounds over the last 10 years, and a studio like HBO has the resources to do Dark Tower the service it warrants.
That said, it sounds as though Ron Howard still intends to make Wizard and Glass as a tie-in TV series, so maybe Dark Tower will find a more natural and permanent home on the small screen in the future.