So many amazing Stephen King stories that could work as a series, why remake something that's been remade recently already?
If anything, get a Lord of the rings size budget and make the dark tower properly
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See that there is the problem.
The one big thing I would change is the last book or so. Get Stephen King out of the actual story, I found that to be the stupidest thing that series did. Same with the 9/11 connection, though not as bad as the inclusion of himself in the book, I think the 9/11 thing was a big cheap
Flanagan has the exclusive rights to make DT from King, also has a deal with Amazon now to develop new movies and series for them and Amazon has already tried to get DT done once.
It's coming, but Amazon probably wanted something a little cheaper and easier to sell from Flanagan first.
His previous ones have mostly been excellent so I'll be excited to see how this turns out.
Sounds unnecessary. Maybe use that Amazon money on another season of The Expanse instead.
Expanse can eat my nads. I'm hype for this
If you’re hype for this, make sure you’ve watched the original movie version from the 1970s. It’s very well done.
8 episodes of Carrie? So like 8 hours of that story? I dunno y'all, seems like it's gonna be a stretch, the movies were already pretty good and to the point
What book have you ever read that actually fits into a 1-2 hour movie? They have to cut those stories to the bone to get them on screen. The movie format is the worst for books, only seconded by the 24-episode, 10 season slog heralded by Fox TV shows.
The miniseries is the ideal format, especially for a book adaptation. Sharp Objects is my favourite example. No hack screenwriters creating “composite characters” to reduce the number of actors, no TV writers drawing on material they didn’t write and don’t understand to try and expand on it to fill extra episodes.
Just an 8 episode, straight adaptation from book to screen. It’s perfect.
You think the Carrie story warrants 8 hours?
I think if there is anyone I would trust to make that determination, it’s Mike Flanagan.