Ron Howard’s film adaptation of Stephen King’s Dark Tower has undergone many changes. It’s been dropped, picked up, had stars attached who got unattached. It doesn’t matter to Opie Cunningham though. Stephen King books are the best toys for Hollywood children and the director of the upcoming film Rush wants to play.
For the most part, Ron Howard took an oath of omerta over the adaptation of the sci-fi-fantasy-western mix, but in an Empire Podcast, Ron Howard talked about his Dark Towerplans. Ron says "The Dark Toweris something that we’re still working on. We’ve all taken a vow of silence about the progress, the headway, what we think our timetable is, because I don’t think I realized how much media interest there was in the title and how much excitement there was. It’s a fascinating, powerful possibility and even Stephen King acknowledges it’s a tricky adaptation, but to be honest, from a financing side, it’s not a straightforward, four-quadrant, sunny superhero story – it’s dark, it’s horror. That edge is what appeals to me, the complexities of those characters is what appeals to all of us. And I think Stephen King really respects that, with [regular screenwriting collaborator] Akiva Goldsman and myself, that that’s what we love about it, and that’s what we want to try to get to the screen.”
But it was taking so long that Ron Howard moved onto other things. But The Dark Tower loomed. “So my answer is: it got delayed, it’s never gone away. We’re working on it, and Stephen is very patient with us, and Akiva’s just gone off and directed a movie [an adaptation of Mark Helprin’s novel, Winter’s Tale, starring Colin Farrell, Russell Crowe, Jessica Brown Findlay, Jennifer Connelly and Will Smith], I’m continuing to work, but the Dark Tower dreams – fever dreams, rather – are still there, but we’re not going to give it a timetable."
And the master of horror and the subject of his own book-of-the-month club Stephen King will put in an appearance in The Dark Tower. Howard confessed, "Yes. And I will admit Stephen has said, ‘I don’t have to be in this.’ But that’s not to say that he won’t be!"
SOURCE: EMPIRE ONLINE
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