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Ghost in the Shell comes to mind (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Should be a TV series. Start with The Gunslinger and work your way through the books, but also split up Wizard and Glass into small chunks to use as episode openers so there isn't suddenly a season long flashback with different actors.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Funnily enough the movie they made was supposed to be the intro to a TV show.

Trying to expand Gunslinger to bring in more backstory (and reeeeeeeally messing up the backstory) killed both the movie and the planned TV show. It's crazy how well their plan could've worked if they hadn't tried to fold too much into the "prequel". Dark Tower even has the built-in "out" that this is a different turn of the wheel.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

They were going to run out of material way too fast the way they did the movie. They condensed The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three, Wolves of the Calla, and Song of Susannah into ninety minutes. They could have done the rest of Drawing, but then that just leaves The Waste Lands, The Dark Tower, and an excessively long flashback with Wizard and Glass. They would have needed to just not adapt more book content in order to have more than a couple seasons of material.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

yeah it can't be a movie. Unfortunately my favorite character will never be accurately adapted and will lose her badassery. Better we wait for another time