• Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
      32·
      2 months ago

      Always found this to be such a cringe line. Stephen King is great but can make some real cringe stuff like that

      • warbond@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 months ago

        That’s funny, I thought the lingual drift of thank you was really neat as a detail. I forget the plates thing, though. Was that when everyone was getting their powers?

      • bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        Them reciting their mantra when they start shooting, or the shrieking they do when they throw the plates, just makes my skin crawl lol. I hope they omit those if they do an on screen adaptation.

            • bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world
              3·
              2 months ago

              Yeah that was a fever dream. On the bright side, Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House) is apparently the one in charge of a series coming in the next few years. So that should be pretty solid. Fingers crossed lol

              • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
                3·
                2 months ago

                A series is the only way to do Dark Tower. It’s too much to try to cram into a movie; there’s just about a season’s worth in most of the books, and if 8 seasons is a stretch of a commitment for a studio, several of the books are smaller and you could probably reasonably compress the series into 5 seasons.

                They need to do it while King is still around, IMHO. More than any other of his novels he seems to have been more emotionally invested in The Dark Tower.

                • bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world
                  3·
                  2 months ago

                  Oh 100% agreed. I think it was the Song of Susanahh especially that I thought could have been cut down by about 50%.

                  And yeah, it would definitely be nice for him to see his work faithfully adapted. I do selfishly hope he takes a backseat creatively though. He’s a phenomenal writer but a terrible filmmaker (imo).