With the news of the movie and the fantastic casting news surrounding it, I've found myself obsessing a little over the series (I finally read The Wind Through the Keyhole and started to catch up on the Marvel comic series that tells the story of Roland's early days, filling in gaps between the flashbacks we got in The Gunslinger and Wizard and Glass.)
This obsession has also seen me looking into the details surrounding the film, and there's a bit of cause for concern.
Admittedly, adapting this series outside of a Game of Thrones-style HBO series (and even then it'd be tricky, what with Eddie and Susannah not coming in until book two) is going to mean some stuff is will need to be streamlined.
But supposedly shooting is going to be only seven weeks - which seems low for such a sprawling epic. There are also interviews that suggest that most of the movie will be taking place in our world (well, presumably the "not-quite-our-world" where Co-Op City is in Brooklyn, but close enough.) Now, tons of the Dark Tower takes place in New York and New England, but I do think that we'll need to see some of Mid-World to get a sense of the epic scope of the series.
I will be watching the situation carefully.
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