The Official Lost: The Final Season Thread (Warning: Possible Spoilers)

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by mredskins

If anyone here has read the Dark Tower series by Stephen King, that series under lying tone was it is about the detestation not the ending, which seems to be the same song Lost is singing and I can get that.

Yeah I've brought this up in the past. I think when talking about Charlotte (Charlotte Lewis).

But I think you're thinking of the wrong Dark Tower. The Dark Tower I believe you want to bring up is CS Lewis' The Dark Tower

[mredskins]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Yeah I've brought this up in the past. I think when talking about Charlotte (Charlotte Lewis).

But I think you're thinking of the wrong Dark Tower. The Dark Tower I believe you want to bring up is CS Lewis' The Dark Tower

No I am talking SK's Dark Tower, if you read the over 5k pages and get to the end there is interesting ending, that SK acknowledges in the epilogue about how so many folks read to get to the end instead of enjoying the journey, basically they are so focused on the Tootsie Pops center that they don't take the time to enjoy outer shell.

I did quickly read the pilot to CL's Dark Tower and that is earlier similar to the plot of Lost where SK's Dark Tower more reflects the methodology of the story telling.

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by mredskins

No I am talking SK's Dark Tower, if you read the over 5k pages and get to the end there is interesting ending, that SK acknowledges in the epilogue about how so many folks read to get to the end instead of enjoying the journey, basically they are so focused on the Tootsie Pops center that they don't take the time to enjoy outer shell.

I did quickly read the pilot to CL's Dark Tower and that is earlier similar to the plot of Lost where SK's Dark Tower more reflects the methodology of the story telling.

I see

[mredskins]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Yeah I've brought this up in the past. I think when talking about Charlotte (Charlotte Lewis).

But I think you're thinking of the wrong Dark Tower. The Dark Tower I believe you want to bring up is CS Lewis' The Dark Tower

This interesting that I just found on Wiki about the SK's Dark Tower coming to the big screen.

Film adaptation

IGN Movies has reported that a film adaptation was in the works; whether it was for a movie or a television series still is unknown. J. J. Abrams, co-creator of the television show Lost, was supposedly attached to produce and direct.[11] Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, who co-created the show Lost with J. J. Abrams, optioned the Dark Tower series from King for a reported nineteen dollars, a number that mysteriously recurs throughout the Dark Tower series of novels.[12] According to issue #923 of Entertainment Weekly, King "is an ardent supporter of the desert-island show and trusts Abrams to translate his vision" into a film franchise with Lindelof being "the leading candidate to write the screenplay for the first installment."[13] In a July 2009 interview with C21 Media, Lindelof revealed that he and Cuse had indeed optioned The Dark Tower's rights, but said he was wary about committing to such an ambitious project: "The idea of taking on something that massive again after having done six seasons of Lost is intimidating and slightly frightening, to say the least." [14]
King also reported that he had turned down long-time collaborator Frank Darabont, creator of such films as The Green Mile and The Shawshank Redemption, after he had asked to do the film.

Roland as depicted in the opening credits of another Stephen King movie, The Mist.


Multiple mock trailers have appeared on YouTube. Also, the official Grand Prize winner of Simon & Schuster's (King's Publisher) American Gunslinger contest,[15] "Roland Meets Brown",[16] by Robert David Cochrane,[17] can be found there.
In King's 2007 film The Mist, the main character, David Drayton, can be seen painting a movie poster with Roland in the center, standing in front of a trans-dimensional Ghostwood door, with a rose and the dark tower to each side.
In April 2009, both Abrams and Lindelof revealed that they would most likely begin adapting the series when Lost concludes in 2010.[18][19]
In May 2009, rumours emerged that Christian Bale was the top contender to play Roland.[20]
In November 2009, Abrams stated that he would not be adapting the series. During an interview with MTV, Abrams made the following comments: "The Dark Tower thing is tricky. The truth is that Damon and I are not looking at that right now." Furthermore, in an interview with USA Today, Damon Lindelof stated that "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."[21]
In April 2010, it was announced that the books will be adapted into a trilogy that will be written by Akiva Goldsman and directed and produced by Ron Howard