Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows First Look + Teaser Trailer courtesy of the Half Blood Prince Blu-ray.
Link: No More ‘Dark Tower’ For Damon Lindelof & J.J. Abrams
Following up with more Stephen King news. this one a bit more close to heart.
This only confirms what Abrams previously said to USA Today in an October interview. “You’ll be hard-pressed to find a huger fan of ‘The Dark Tower’ than me, but that’s probably the reason that I shouldn’t be the one to adapt it,” he revealed. “After working six years on ‘Lost,’ the last thing I want to do is spend the next seven years adapting one of my favorite books of all time. I’m such a massive Stephen King fan that I’m terrified of screwing it up. I’d do anything to see those movies written by someone else. My guess is they will get made because they’re so incredible. But not by me.”
Sad. But maybe it’s for the best. Even if Abrams is out, I still hope Damon Lindelof (one of, if not the key creators/writer of LOST) is still on board as I feel like he has a great touch to make this material translate as well as it could. I think they still have the rights to it, so here’s hoping it’s just something that’s put on hold for now.
Stephen King’s Under The Dome comes out today. It has a cool cover, and an intruiging premise about a town that finds itself enclosed inside a large glass dome. Really looking forward to this one.
Stephen King’s ‘The Dark Tower’ Illustration by Drew Struzan
Bring on the movie. Beautiful illustration by the king of movie art.
Link: Dream-Casting J.J. Abrams' Dark Tower Movie
Wow, I used to think Christian Bale as Roland Deschain would have been good but I’m less sure about that now. Hugh Jackman has the gruffness but also the empathy that Roland needs. After reading this, I pretty much agree with every single one of their choices. James McAvoy as Eddie Dean, Freddy Highmore as Jake Chambers and Zoe Saldana as Suzanna/Odetta are all inspired. Great job.
Link: JJ Abrams Talks Dark Tower
Quick clip but basically, after LOST is done and Damon Lindelof is free, they’ll begin. Can’t wait.
Link: Christian Bale As Roland the Gunslinger in 'Dark Tower' Movie?
:O
Would be amazing if true. Never thought of him for the part before, but it would be a great fit. Viggo Mortensen could do, too.
LOST mastermind Damon Lindelof and J.J. Abrams are set to adapt the Stephen King epic series, with Abrams directing.
Excerpt from Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, Book 1 — The Gunslinger: “Size”
“The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but size. Size encompasses life, and the Tower encompasses size. The child, who is most at home with wonder, says: Daddy, what is above the sky? And the father says: The darkness of space. The child: What is beyond space? The father: The galaxy. The child: Beyond the galaxy? The father: Another galaxy. The child: Beyond the other galaxies? The father: No one knows.
“You see? Size defeats us. For the fish, the lake in which he lives is the universe. What does the fish think when he is jerked up by the mouth through the silver limits of existence and into a new universe where the air drowns him and the light is blue madness? Where huge bipeds with no gills stuff it into a suffocating box and cover it with wet weeds to die?
“Or one might take the tip of the pencil and magnify it. One reaches the point where a stunning realization strikes home: The pencil tip is not solid; it is composed of atoms which whirl and revolve like a trillion demon planets. What seems solid to us is actually only a loose net held together by gravity. Viewed at their actual size, the distances between these atoms might become league, gulfs, aeons. The atoms themselves are composed of nuclei and revolving protons and electrons. One may step down further to subatomic particles. And then to what? Tachyons? Nothing? Of course not. Everything in the universe denies nothing; to suggest an ending is the one absurdity.
“If you fell outward to the limit of the universe, would you find a board fence and signs reading DEAD END? No. You might find something hard and rounded, as the chick must see the egg from the inside. And if you should peck through the shell (or find a door), what great and torrential light might shine through your opening at the end of space? Might you look through and discover our entire universe is but part of one atom on a blade of grass? Might you be forced to think that by burning a twig you incinerate an eternity of eternities? That existence rises not to one infinite but to an infinity of them?
“Perhaps you saw what place our universe plays in the scheme of things - as no more than an atom in a blade of grass. Could it be that everything we can perceive, from the microscopic virus to the distant Horsehead Nebula, is contained in one blade of grass that may have existed for only a single season in an alien time-flow? What if that blade should be cut off by a scythe? When it begins to die, would the rot seep into our universe and our own lives, turning everything yellow and brown and desiccated? Perhaps it’s already begun to happen. We say the world has moved on; maybe we really mean that it has begun to dry up.
“Think how small such a concept of things make us, gunslinger! If a God watches over it all, does He actually mete out justice for such a race of gnats? Does His eye see the sparrow fall when the sparrow is less than a speck of hydrogen floating disconnected in the depth of space? And if He does see… what must the nature of such a God be? Where does He live? How is it possible to live beyond infinity?
“Imagine the sand of the Mohaine Desert, which you crossed to find me, and imagine a trillion universes - not worlds by universes - encapsulated in each grain of that desert; and within each universe an infinity of others. We tower over these universes from our pitiful grass vantage point; with one swing of your boot you may knock a billion billion worlds flying off into darkness, a chain never to be completed.
“Size, gunslinger… size.”
