Last week it was revealed that the new remake of Stephen King’s Carrie is set to take on a whole new approach, using a “found footage” narrative element, and now young actress Chloe Moretz (Let Me In, Kick-Ass) has taken a brief moment to talk about her new role in the dark new adaptation of the film.
Warner Brothers has made their choice for adapting Stephen King‘s thousand page-plus tome The Stand and their choice is Ben Affleck, according to Deadline Hollywood. Affleck would then be brought on to both write and direct the project after finishing his current feature Argo.
The future of Ron Howard’s massive three-film, two-season TV show adaptation of Stephen King’s multi-volume The Dark Tower series is beginning to look, well, dark. Despite having a hotshot director like Howard attached, and Javier Bardem in talks to play the lead, Universal has passed on the ungainly production.
With the news that Javier Bardem is essentially locked down for the main character of The Dark Tower, the three-film, two-TV series adaptation of Stephen King’s mammoth seven volume tale of gunslingers, alternate realities, an entire universe within a rose in New York, and a gigantic tower that acts as a lynchpin holding all of reality together, maybe it’s time director Ron Howard got some people together to write the thing. And, as /Film reports, he finally has.
Remember back in March when we reported that Javier Bardem was “psychologically” attached to the role of Roland the gunslinger, the lead role in Ron Howard’s three-films-and-a-TV-series adaptation of Stephen King’s seven book series The Dark Tower? Well, it looks like he’s now a little more than “psychologically” attached to the role.
If you catch a season two episode of AMC’s most recent sensation, the zombie-fied television show The Walking Dead, and notice that the episode’s plot revolves around a writer who lives in Maine and must do battle with an ancient, otherworldly evil with assistance from a plucky local gal and a young boy who happens to have psychic powers of some sort while discovering that the true evil lies within the heart of man (and maybe in a really big dark tower), that may be because it was written by Stephen King.
One of Stephen King’s most beloved novels is The Stand. It has everything you’d want in a horror story including death, chemical warfare, and notable characters such as the Trashcan Man and Mother Abigail. The book was originally published in 1978 and became a cult hit, especially after it was reprinted in 1990 when King revised some of the story.
Back in April we learned that the Stephen King book series The Dark Tower was being turned into a feature film trilogy. Oscar winner Ron Howard was named as the feature director, and according to The Los Angeles Times, the series, which is composed of seven novels, short stories and comic books will also be adapted as a television show.
According to Deadline, Ron Howard plans on doing the semi-impossible by adaptating Stephen King’s fantasy series, The Dark Tower. The director along with his producing partner Brian Grazer, Akiva Goldsman, and Universal Pictures are in the middle of a deal that will turn the 7 books into a theatrical trilogy and a possible TV series.
