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by **LOLtron** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 4:12 pm

The ambitious on-again-off-again project seems to be on-again, again.

While out there promoting Brett Ratner's action-comedy Tower Heist, Imagine Entertainment's Brain Grazer let the word out that the company's film and television adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Tower series of novels will be going ahead as planned (less $45 million of budget), after news that Universal Pictures passed on the project.

Sayeth Grazer, by way of MTV's Movies Blog:

"We're going to do ['The Dark Tower'] with HBO," Grazer told us. "We'll do the TV with HBO, and we'll do the movie with... to be determined. We'll do it right."

So the adaptations, which proposed an unprecedented rollout scheme that incorporated both films and series television, is back up and running. Grazer apparently is figuring that Javier Bardem, previously attached to play protagonist Roland Deschain, is still in for the project.

Check out MTV's video of the conversation with video of Grazer talking about this and other things (ie Arrested Development, which also will be revived through both television and film), apparently not long after sticking a fork into a light socket. Also, click over to their site via the link below to read the rest of their story.

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by **Chris** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 4:19 pm

I was under the impression that the TV aspect of the project was still in development. They only shelved the movie.

by **Starlord** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 4:26 pm

I've never read the Dark Tower series. I've tried reading the first book like 5 times but it never kept my interest. I think the fact that the main character is a cowboy turned me off of it.

by **Log-Man** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 4:52 pm

Starlord wrote:I've never read the Dark Tower series. I've tried reading the first book like 5 times but it never kept my interest. I think the fact that the main character is a cowboy turned me off of it.

First one is the only one worth reading. I actually liked the cowboy-as-knight role, though.

by **misac** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:30 pm

Starlord wrote:I've never read the Dark Tower series. I've tried reading the first book like 5 times but it never kept my interest. I think the fact that the main character is a cowboy turned me off of it.

Maybe try the comic first. It's what brought the books to my attention. The first four trades are prequels.

I hope they can do the movies and tv series, it would give it a real epic feel.